Texas Gardening: Rabbit problems, 1 by Dogs_N_Petunias

Dogs_N_Petunias wrote:

Quoting: I'd be inclined to see if rottweiler pee is a deterrent...

Not a deterrent. That is what has seemed so strange about this rabbit's behavior. The Rottweiler has full run of the yard when she is outside, so her scent must be everywhere, and yet a rabbit had her babies in a small hollow that the Rottie had dug in the grass. From its behavior, I'm assuming this is the same tiny cottontail rabbit that grew up in my front yard and startled me half to death a few times when I was deadheading flowers and it would unexpectedly hop out from under a rose bush and go a few feet and then just sit and look at me !!! But all it ate in the front yard last year was a pot of chocolate mint, which easily grew back. But last night in my new beds it ate a blackeyed Susan to a nub and dug next to Lyre leaf sage I had transplanted. I wonder if wind chimes or just a bunch of cans on strings would make enough noise to keep it away.

Glenna