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Bunny Damage

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My daughters bunny was left out of the cage in the back yard the other day. I had to chase the thing around the yard for 15 minutes to get it back in the cage. The morning after when I was checking my plants I noticed that the bunny had chewed 3 out of four potted Fargesia nitida seedlings to the ground. I have brought the plants inside to see if I can get them to push new shoots and then I will keep them indoors through the winter because I think that is what it will take to get them to survive.
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I would be thinking.....Weinerschnitzel.... :D
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Sorry to hear about your little buddies getting eaten, that really sucks.

I had a pet rabbit once. It was so cute. till you tried to put it back in its cage. then it would claw the crap out of ya and scream like you where trying to kill it.

My bunny NEVER ever ate plants. Nope. It liked cords. Phone cords , game controller cords, guitar cords.

It got a happy home on a farm with a big pen. :lol:


btw if anyone here is familar with dave's insanity sauce, It doesn't work as a rabbit repellent. They don't even notice that their tongues are on fire. I put it on some of my cords and waited. No brain, no pain.

To give you an idea how hot dave's insanity sauce is

Tabasco sauce = 75 heat units.
daves insanity sauce = 5000 :lol:
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Flashburn wrote:btw if anyone here is familar with dave's insanity sauce, It doesn't work as a rabbit repellent. They don't even notice that their tongues are on fire. I put it on some of my cords and waited. No brain, no pain.

To give you an idea how hot dave's insanity sauce is

Tabasco sauce = 75 heat units.
daves insanity sauce = 5000 :lol:
I've had a similar problem with cats developing a taste for hot sauce. The coiled handset cords turned out to work just fine and the cats couldn't get a bite on them. I also have a P. aurea for the cats to satisfy their bamboo cravings on.
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There have been many a severed cord and other damage which is part of the reason I have opted to try and keep the bunny outside as much as possible.
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We nearly ended up with rabbit stew last night after I found that the bunny got into my garden and did some mass destruction of all of the plants that it could have taken down it decided to take down 3/4 of my Fargesia scabrida and about half of my Indocalmus tessalatus..... I probably wouldn't be so upset but all the bunny did was chew the culms and didn't even eat the plants with a whole garden full of carrots and other desirable plants it just had to go and destroy my boo. Man am I bitter.....
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Make it look like natural causes. say electrocution :lol:
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