Live trapping rabbits.

[turd]

Well, if I were closer,, I'd gladly trap & remove the rabbit. But if you were in NC,, it'd have to be killed. Not allowed to be relocated.

Try the temporary cages around the shrubs. I have several rabbits that visit my yard. I wire cage my plants too.

Might make a good lunch. I did look up the laws in South Dakota since you posted. Wild animals do need to be registered and permission given for relocation. But, squirrels and rabbits don't seem to be included. As long as they are in season, no one seems to care how you trap or shoot them, or what you do with them when collected, as long as they are relocated in the same county where they were collected. I have wire caged my plants in the past, but the way the wind blows here, the wire cages sometimes end up in someone else's yard. Also, the snow often is as deep as the cages (18' - 2') and the rabbits walk over them. Thanks for the replies all, but I think I will just keep trying to move they/them. As an aside, they/them seem to be in my yard because we don't have a dog. Most of the neighbors do. Its not too hard to trail they/them in the snow, and they are coming from a close by yard that has a home under construction with a pile of dirt and some weeds. If I don't catch they/them, maybe the new neighbor will have a dog. I really wish the hawk that used to patrol the area were still here.

 

[blume357]

One of the regrets I now have from my childhood growing up on a farm out in the country is when I found one of the homemade rabbit trap boxes the old black man that lived in a shack up the road had set out in the woods I would pee around it and on it.....

 

[Kevin]

Turd, did you ever get your rabbit?

My wife and I go for walks after dinner and our neighborhood is full of rabbits. We see them running in the shadows. Most seem to like staying close to the front doors of houses for some reason.

 

[Fox Mike]

Never had a rabbit problem. I have a rabbit eliminator named Callie.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Call my Granddaughter at I-LUV-RABBITS she will come get it

 

[turd]

Turd, did you ever get your rabbit?

My wife and I go for walks after dinner and our neighborhood is full of rabbits. We see them running in the shadows. Most seem to like staying close to the front doors of houses for some reason.

No, and the derned thing ate three newly planted shrubs. All the lots around us now have houses on them, and there are several dogs in the area, but the sucker won't leave. We need our local red tailed hawk to come back.......

 

[Watchman]

I'm not murderous.

I am.

Rabbits girdle my fruit trees in the winter, eating all the bark around the trunk and killing the saplings. So it's personal. Every one I see gets lead thrown their way. Most don't survive.

The turkey vultures think I'm awesome!

 

[arfmel]

They’re not all harmless little bunnies. Behold the Rabbit of Caerbannog

 

[KS25-06]

I used to live in a small town before moving to the country. We had a half block lot and a big garden. Used an old Remington 511 with CB Longs on the bunnies. It made less noise than my RWS pellet rifle. I think the longer barrel had something to do with that. Never had a complaint from the neighbors. They can be very destructive to plants and shrubs. When we moved to the country, we planted a double row of ceder trees for a wind break. 125 trees in all. We had a 6 year drouth, Looked out the window one morning and saw one tree leaning out of the row at an odd angle. Upon investigation, the cottontails had girdled the tree. Ate a ring around the tree about six inches off the ground. The ring measured about 4" tall and they ate deep enough into the tree to cause it to fall over at an angle. In all, they killed 11 trees that were about 6' tall. That started a war on the cute little bunnies. In the next 3 months killed over 50. Shortly after that we were given a male cat that had been fixed. Long legged rascal weighed 22 lbs. End of bunny problems for years.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Rabbits will kill your trees and especially your fruit tree saplings.

If you like your rabbits, then keep your rabbits. AT HOME, don't turn them loose on someone else.

 

[Yoter]

Set the box trap in a well used trail or run. Try to have or place vegetation or barriers around it to funnel the bunny into the box.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Well Wabbit do you feel lucky today well do ya???