Gardeners gird for annual face-off with rabbits

[Norgy]

Slargos is gonna have a stroke when he sees those Hitler pics.

I think he's cheerleading some genocide today, so he's busy.

[C.C.R.]

My dog, Gruppenführer Stanley of the SS Kaninchen Killer Gruppe, killed his first rabbit the other day.  I was Proud.  Maybe I should make him a little Iron Cross to hang on his collar...

[KRonn]

My dog, Gruppenführer Stanley of the SS Kaninchen Killer Gruppe, killed his first rabbit the other day.  I was Proud.  Maybe I should make him a little Iron Cross to hang on his collar...

You should award the dog, at least! Give him a real morale boost;  that'll go great with the Kanine Korps uniform that I'm sure you gave him.   

[KRonn]

Yeah, rabbits can ruin a veggie garden. One year they kept eating the small seedlings, killing the plants. But I think over the last few years that coyotes must have kept the rabbit population down, since I haven't seen any rabbits for a few years now.

There used to be coyotes when I was young, but nowadays, there ain't much wood anymore, so they've migrated a tad more to the south.  Haven't seen one or tracks of one in years.

No rabbits tough.  Skunks and racoons, lots of them.  City people and their idiocies of destroying all the surrounding forests, now we have to face these pests instead of occasional deer and coyote.

I used to have lots of skunks around too; used to have to often close the windows at night because a skunk sprayed. But very few skunks now for quite a few years. I'm thinking that coyotes might have caused skunk numbers to drop. Maybe the increased competition for food, and coyotes being the larger predator skunks moved out and/or are attacked by coyotes.