Thread 63865103

I know /an/ would be a better board but i trust /k/ more.

Every year about this time i have a crop of baby bunnies, wild hares that emerge for about a week. They are juveniles who just stumbled out of the burrow, they are annoying because i have to avoid stepping on them and i can't mow the lawn while they are around.

What does /k/ think i should do? Normally i just pick up the flea ridden things, hit them with a spray bottle of permethrin so they can have a insect free life and then spook them so they learn to hide. Also the Permethrin keeps me flea free, otherwise i'd just cage them and make them pets like Fox kits.

For a few days i can just pick them up, they are supposed to be crepuscular but the babies aren't old enough to get that message, they have a tendency to wander the lawn at full noon on sunny days. I have Great Horned Owls, Ravens and nearby Bald Eagles on my property so a baby bunny needs all the help it can get to survive.

I'm trying to keep them parasite free with the permethrin spray (it lasts longer than they live and affects any other animal they touch) and i'm trying to teach them valuable life lessons, i've got alot of them on my hands.

What is /k/s advice for me defending the Great North Woods Bunnies People Republic?

>>63865103 (OP)
You could put a cage around the entrance of their burrow, and feed/de flea them there until they are big enough to leave their home. Otherwise, as long as you aren't hurting them you are doing the best you can.

Also cool to see something posted by u other than north korea, kek.

adopt the bnuuy

>>63865113
>You could put a cage around the entrance of their burrow, and feed/de flea them there until they are big enough to leave their home. Otherwise, as long as you aren't hurting them you are doing the best you can.


Can't do that, i have a (very rare for my area) ground hog of all things (Artic ground hogs are a thing) which means there are more nearby. The hares share the burrows and i even have Northern Bog lemmings which are a semi protected species. I'm stuck with a mess of rodents and rodent related species some of which are endangered which is why i don't have cats.

I have Shews, they echolocate and are really cool. Any cats or traps would harm them.

>>63865127
I really want to, but they are wild hares. I've been picking them up and hitting them with the flea spray for 3-4 years now, i can tell which ones it worked on as they have healed deer tick scars on their faces. There is one that i think lasted 4-5 years.

Nicknamed him (her?) Odin, it was a hare that had a collapsed eye and a huge scar over it. It had a dead healed eye, almost like a shark and a scar that was clearly from a big bird. It hopped into my house one day, ran under my bed and i tried to grab it with a flashlight in hand then when i cornered it the damn thing looked at me with that dead eye and scar.

I just backed off, left the door open and stayed in another building that night, i was not going to fuck with that rabbit.

It's annoying as fuck, the best thing i could have for my peace of mind is a weaponized semi feral cat colony farm but i don't want to bother the rodents, the weasels and such can go fuck themselves.

>>63865176
>put a cage around the entrance of their burrow,

I have enough things that eat birds without adding ferrets to the mix. I want to protect them, not send in the rodent equivalent of the Dilwanger Brigade.

>>63865176
Feral cats are the niggers of nature and should be shot on sight.

>>63865176
Personally, especially with the ground hogs,you should probably do what you've been doing. It sounds like you dont want to be too invasive, so the best option would be to simply look out for the bunnies, perhaps mark out a little area with bricks/stone and plant some taller plants, it could allow the bunnies a place to hang out without being too exposed.

Otherwise, the flea treatment idea is good, just keep an extra eye out for any little critters while mowing or whatever.

P.S. is an Arctic Ground Squirrel what u are talking about? Cant find anything about Arctic Ground Hogs...

>>63865103 (OP)

Sadly it's a case of either let them live wild and then be prey or somehow capture them and make them into a zoo style of 'not domesticated but also not wild living'.

And they'd probably just overproduce in captivity.

Cooky idea for me is not a cage around the entrance but more like a kind of squat shed. That is to say something that would be top cover (to prevent birds) but not side cover (So they and the ground hog can leave).

Hares goin die, but you help tip the odds slightly in their favor.

>>63865226
a hybrid of (^above) and an open side as >>63865226 recommends would likely be the bunnies best bet.

perhaps some chicken wire could help them survive till adulthood? Otherwise, just dont hurt them and make sure that they are in a relatively safe location.

>>63865103 (OP)
you should dress as an owl and woo at them until they understand. alternatively you could dress as a rabbit and surprise any would be attackers

>>63865205
>>63865226
a combo of these too would be the best choice, a covered area for the babbies and then a stone/brick lined area they can hide in if they arent a babby anymore...

you could also grow some pretty plants in the area. I live in the south (hellish btw), but there are an abundance of cold resistant bush-like plants that would provide ample cover and perhaps even food for the bunnies.

>>63865103 (OP)
>permethrin
I'm sure they appreciate being hosed down with industrial poison

>>63865192
Correct. I like cats but introducing them to my area would be a crime, especially as i'd need an entire colony as the cats themselves would undergo predation. Deliberately introducing and creating a feral cat colony is a ecological WMD.

There is a place i could get 2-3 every few months that were spayed and/or neutered, if they can't reproduce and only last a few months once the coyotes, big bird ect that might work but it is too cruel for me. I will not put a animal in that sort of survival situation without a chance to reproduce and make it on their own.

>>63865205
> plant some taller plants, it could allow the bunnies a place to hang out without being too exposed.

The ground hogs doe exactly that, i avoid clearing where they burrow and other animals cluster around them and use the same holes. It is almost impossible for me to see one, i have to hide in my house and see them looking out through a window and even then they eyeball me. They are damn good.

>P.S. is an Arctic Ground Squirrel what u are talking about? Cant find anything about Arctic Ground Hogs...

It's a normal Eastern ground hog that lives at high altitude and in unusual conditions, like Northern Maine in the Appalachian mountains. Sometimes they find a niche location, my yard is one of them. It is unusual as that means that there are more of them, they aren't that social and don't wander far from where they were born. My area must have a small population of them living in the woods where they shouldn't be since i obviously have one.

>>63865226
They use a barn that has a bunch of holes in it like OP image and is used for storage, i suspect they are breeding in there. Hope they like ducks because in a few months they are getting a few dozen in the fall, probably a couple of geese so fuck anything that isn't a goose.

I'm very conflicted, a few cats would be great small animal WMDs and make life easier but i luv dem little bunnies.

>>63865254
I am curious: Was this poster deleted by the mods or did he delete it himself? I find nothing offensive in this post.

>>63865280
It's very diluted but it protects them for 2-3 generations, they have a 75-90% mortality rate otherwise from insects and ticks.

>>63865127
They are a separate species from domestic rabbits, Rabbits and Snow Shoe Hares are separate species. I'm fine with killing and eating hares and escaped domestic rabbits, these not so much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_cottontail

I just move them back to the barn and silos by my alfalfa pasture since it only gets mowed once every couple of years. Weird that the groundhogs don't run them out or kill them, they do that here, but groundhogs are a shoot on sight animal around here too. I guess just keep doing what you're doing but I'd be a little wary of treating them for fleas and ticks. Where I live, I'd be more likely to get in trouble for that. If they're small enough that they aren't leaving the burrows permanently, go ahead and mow your yard then just stick to weed eating that part of the yard. I wouldn't really want to keep a wild rabbit as a pet cause they're little spazzes and need a lot more than a rabbit you can just throw in a hutch. Relocate them or just accept that part of your property is for rabbits and make it comfortable for them with lots of vegetation they can hide in and eat.

>>63865310
>Deliberately introducing and creating a feral cat colony is a ecological WMD.
Ecosystems don't just stay the same forever you know, they evolve just like organisms do. Sometimes fast like a WMD, sometimes slow. On a related note, the concept of "invasiveness" as distinct from any other biological success is non-scientific, quasi-religious claptrap for midwits. We are here today because we invaded. Same as the grasses those bunnies eat, they colonized most of the grow-able world in *as little as* a few hundred years.

*can't say the timespan for sure because of preservation bias, but they certainly up-ended many ecosystems

>>63865103 (OP)
You should educate them on Juche. All jokes aside, you seem to have it well under control and if they are a potentially threatened species you're being a Chad.

>>63865386
some things are meant to be

>>63865424
>but I'd be a little wary of treating them for fleas and ticks

By spraying them he is reducing the risk of himself or his other animals getting bitten by ticks.

Demand a tribute of nibbling your lawn's long grass and become their benevolent god-king.

>>63865428
>Smartest person in this thread.

Cats, Japanese Knotweed and a breeding population of ferrets.

>>63865434
I assure you every animal on my property is going to be well briefed in both being American Citizens and educated in the works of Benjamin Franklin as well as the works of Kim Il Sung. The cats especially would be made to understand Juche.

>>63865440

Permethrin can't really harm them given their short reproductive cycle, all a dose does is lets them enjoy life insect/parasite free for their lives. It does the same for foxes, let them have a few insect few generations and they are fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUCWwpWHJ6M

>>63865458
When you pick one of them up you can feel the fleas crawling up your arm, you can't see them but you can feel them like a line of itching moving up towards your head.

The biggest issue in making them pets or picking them up is fleas, permethrin is the only was to prevent it.

>>63865378
I would like a answer as to why this post was deleted. It was inoffensive.

>>63865458
>>63865478
I was talking in the sense that treating them with chemicals would be more likely to get my ass in trouble around my parts than relocating or even killing them.
I live in a backwards state dictated by people who have never the city and conservation/wardens who never matured past high school. Keep treating them, I was just saying to be careful while doing it, hard telling what they could slap you with if you live somewhere like that.

Just mow them down, stupid chink dick sucker.
>hurr purr bunni
Fuck these faggots, eating my cabbages. Skin them when I can

>>63865812

Permethrin is the only chemical that bothers me.

I've used basic diluted permethrin spray on goats, chickens, ducks, cats, dogs, cows and was ordered to use it on my uniform for 8 years. I then used it for 3 semesters as a Ag Student. So 20 years exposure.

I have never experienced any ill effects (besides the fish/amphibian poisoning thing demonstrated to me in collage) however if i had any ill effects from permethrin it would be far too late. I am a older person so there are 10x other things that are going to kill me.

Thank you for listening to my TED (Theodor Kaminsky) talk.

>>63865103 (OP)
Train the bnuuy to do bayonet charges against their adversaries. Maybe a sharp stick will do instead of tiny guns with bayonets. If you can teach them to speak, have them chant "nintendo hentai, banzaiiiii" or something. "An army of buns can have all the fun" as the old british slang goes.

>>63865858
>I've used basic diluted permethrin spray on ... cats
Don't.
Permethrin and Pyrethrins are toxic to cats.

>>63866132
I'm quite aware of cross species toxicity issues, 54B remember? I have no cats at present, i'm worried that residual permethrin might harm them.

>>63866104
Or i put them in a cardboard box, feed then then let them lose in a week or so.

>OH NO I CANT MOW MY LAWN
>WHAT THE FUCK
>IVE GOT TO CONSULT THE INTERNET
>MY GRASS
>OH GOD WHAT IF IT GETS TOO TALL
Jesus fucking christ, the actual state of this country

>>63865777
And no one checks it in a thread about a baby bunny..

/k/ has fallen.

>>63866316
I deleted it fren. I felt it was incomplete, and I rewrote my post.

>>63866322
I was worried it was deleted by some power mad Jannie or mod, not you.

Carry on.

>>63866300
Are you saying that you would run over the wittle babby wabbits with your mower?

as a bunny furry, i love this thread.

thank you OP

>>63865103 (OP)
Train them to attack intruders by creating a scarecrow filled with lettuce.
Eventually become the bunny lord and set them loose on unsuspecting neighbors.

>>63865386
If they get taken by predators, are you potentially poisioning the food chain?

>>63868042
Unless fish and bees have started predating rabbits without our knowledge, no.

>>63865280
>industrial poison
>literally just synthetic derivative of natural chrysanthemum extract that does the exact same thing as the flower but lasts longer
Retard alert.

>>63868042
Bro there is no risk to mammals with pyrethroids. Not only are they not systemic insecticids, even if they were it takes a huge amount of constant exposure to negatively affect mammals. Pyrethriods stimulate motor neurons to fire, it's basically very strong menthol.

>>63865192
Cat sniper is that you?

tape knives to their backs so if a predator tries to get them they get the poke

>>63865103 (OP)
Hold my Kimchi, I got you, Norktard.

>>63865103 (OP)
bnuy :3

>>63865103 (OP)
Most will die from predators no matter what you do. Avoiding mowing them is more than enough.

>>63865841
go be a sociopath somewhere else, this comfy thread is for humans,not psycho /pol/tard NPCs like yourself

>>63871707
The area has a really high rodent/hare/groundhog/ect concentration for some reason and the clover that my yard is carpeted with helps alot. I know for a fact that at least one specific bunny lasted 3 years from distinct facial scarring.

By the time i see them the #1 killer is no longer a threat, squirrels eat them as babies.

>>63871275
Not far from the truth, all the buildings have blinking lights lights and wind chimes everywhere. There are a few ground hog holes that are inside a disused corner of my barn that they use so they tend to hang out there for a few weeks while they grow.

It's slightly annoying since there is half a foot of goat crap there that acts as a natural field mushroom farm and they nibble them.

>>63865103 (OP)
Shoot it and eat it. Rabbit is delicious, my absolute favorite meat. The
>valuable life lessons
you should be teaching those wild animals is to fear animals higher on the food chain (you)
>>63865176
>i have a (very rare for my area) ground hog of all things (Artic ground hogs are a thing) which means there are more nearby.
Shoot it with a .22 and eat it. Tastes exactly like rabbit (delicious)

>>63865192
Agreed.

>>63870883
Speak my name and I shall appear

>>63865127
They make terrible police… they have a hare trigger..

>>63873064
>everything evil or ugly is /pol/tards
Hey, I resemble that remark!

t. /pol/tard

>>63866269
Did you go to Leonard Wood?

>>63876464
>Did you go to Leonard Wood

Yep, first joint sex training cycle they did with first time DIs and a retiring 1sgt no less. Shit was fun since i was older than most of the drills so they left me alone.

>>63876462
Carlos you fucking beaner

>>63876408
The neighbors raise rabbits so i don't need to shoot these, i am trying to make the skittish (takes about a week) and i want the groundhogs to get a bigger population before i start eating them.

I have no objection to eating any of them and have done so before, i just want more numbers before that.

>>63876545
Nice! You should plant some lettuce and broccoli, and consider cutting some brush and piling it up in a few spots near where you plant. Provide food& shelter and they will stick around and proliferate. Don't worry about instilling skittishness - the hawks and owls will weed out the dumb ones no matter what

>>63876549
The yard is 2/3rds clover and wild strawberries. Also the 3 cleared acres around the buildings has roughly 1000 feet of 4-6 foot brush hedges that are 3-8 feet thick, i suspect they are a big factor in my massive numbers of small herbivores. I have two types of lemmings and so many shrews in my house at night they are defacto pets, i have a tiny ladder that i leave in the shower so they don't get stuck.

>>63876677
>so many shrews in my house at night they are defacto pets, i have a tiny ladder that i leave in the shower so they don't get stuck.
Buddy... get some fucking cats. They way you live is gross and I truly do not mean any personal offense on that

>>63876838
Shrews=tiny cats. I tolerate the shrews because they are predators. If you live inna woods in a cabin in Maine there are rodents errywhere, doesn't matter what you do.

The shrews kill more mice than traps which can kill 3-4 a night. The roof has squirrels that try to get under the eves and nest there 2-3 times a year, it always end the same way: wake up at 3 AM to a epic battle inside the walls as the shrews eat their kids and the squirrels freak out.

You could have a dozen cats anywhere up here with a brand new house and you will still have mice and assorted other things everywhere.
The shrews are fine because they don't live in the house, they use it as a hunting ground and don't poop too much.

As to the shower thing, most folks use the same tiny ladder so mice can climb a bucket that has a dowel running across the top. You stick a cardboard roll over the dowel covered in peanut butter, dozens of them will run up onto it and roll into the bucket. Usually they put water in the bucket to drown them but if i do it i don't, i put on gloves and thwack them on the flood top kill them as i think drowning is cruel. You can ziplock bag them, freeze them and use them as coyote bait, if you don't trap people who do will trade you a few beers or some eggs for them.

The general method is used in concentration camps to get protein, when i first saw locals doing it they looked at me funny when i said i recognized it from accounts of Nork prison camp survivors harvesting mice in the 1990s..

>>63871275
Hah, just remembered the netting is a real thing.

In china they raise domestic rabbits in clover fields with bird netting covering acres and acres of them with hutches spaced through them. The same thing is done on a smaller scale with Guinea pigs although most Peruvians just have a 4x4 plywood box that they throw grass clippings and weeds into.

>>63876196
>lights and wind chimes
I meant something more along the lines of pic related. Airports use something similar.

>>63877894
I'm mostly off grid. Solar and hydro independency.

>>63877937
Should be right up your alley then. Not sure if it works on Eagles though.

>>63877984
Believe it not i once had my chickens get attacked by Eagles. I ran out into my yard watching a Bald Eagle carrying off a chicken with a 700 12 gauge in hand and a MAGA hat on my head..

I stood there in awe as it flew away with my favorite bird.

>>63865103 (OP)
if you can pick them up it's just free rabbits
build them a rabbit run and keep them
they are wild ones so they won't be as efficient as say Flemish giants. But it's basically free meat if you have the grass to feed them.

>>63876408
Scumbag

>>63878016
I'm not sure what kind of wilderness you live on, Norktard, but I'd seriously consider covering the eternity of your backyard with some overhead cover. Eagles can easily break you arm's bones with their talons.

Read like half this thread. You’re a great, considerate guy, OP.

You the same Norktard who told me to believe in myself in the other thread (about bullet form factor)?

>>63877085
>The shrews kill more mice than traps which can kill 3-4 a night
Did not know this. Hell yeah brother

>>63878122
Grow up

>>63877085
>Shrews
you might also be able to sell the mice to someone with exotic pets like snakes or large spiders

>>63865192
Cats are skilled killers who have persevered, they are pests but they deserve respect, don't ever compare them to any group of kikes and niggers

>>63878519
If you think those groups haven't "persevered" then you're dead wrong. Feral cats are niggers

>>63878533
they "persevered" because Government and a special group has protected and favoured them like an at-risk species