Over run with rabbits.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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The Sticks, Northeast PA.
I live in PA near the Jersey border. It's mostly woodsy. I've been having problems with rabbits-like LOTS of them. When I pull in at night, there will be 6-8 rabbits in the driveway. You think they would move when they see a car coming at them. But they do that 'freeze' thing, where they're absolutely still. I don't want to scrape squished rabbit off my tires. I honk the horn and flash the lights, but they don't move. Anybody else having a rabbit invasion? What do I do?
Rick
 

I live in a rural, desert area. There are lots of rabbits at night, not so much during the day. The are lots of coyotes too, so the rabbits are kind of "on edge", and spook when a car comes their way. Got Jack rabbits & Cottontails, the Jacks will run straight straight ahead down the road in front of the car...run like the wind! The Cottontails will just hop off to the side of the road, and hide in a bush.

Maybe there aren't enough predators in the area to keep the rabbits "on edge"?
 
I doubt they can help but call and see what your local Wildlife Dept. suggests first.

I agree with what Thomas said that the predator vs prey ratio is off for some reason......since you can't bring in foxes and coyotes hunting is about the only solution.

Sounds like there are more of them than you care to clean and eat, if that's the case maybe let a trusted hunter or two (that will actually eat them) come in and thin them out.

I like fried rabbit and I've never had rabbit pie fellas but I'll bet it's good......my grandmother used to make either squirrel or rabbit with dumplings and that was really tasty.
 
I live in PA too, we have rabbits, but they are only seen during the early morning and just at dusk. We have too many predators for them to be active at dark. Fox, raccoon and coyotes move all night long on our property.
 
Our rabbit population is cyclical. When the population booms the coyotes come in and clean them up. Then the coyote population booms and the rabbits are decimated. When the rabbit population is down the coyotes disperse the rabbits swell and the circle goes on.
 
We get a lot of rabbits coming through our back fence into the yard. Usually when we or the dog goes out, they take off, but sometimes it takes them awhile to decide. For the driveway, I can't think of a resolution but a remote control sprinkler system aimed at the drive. You can press the button and the rabbits should scamper. :eek:nthego:
 
Well, the only predator around is Fuzzface, my 16 year old cat. He mostly sleeps. I don't know what was keeping the population down until now. My cat, Mike, would come back with a baby rabbit in his mouth, once and a while.
The rabbits just don't move until the tire is about to run them over. I guess if I just drove faster, I'd be the predator.
 
There are critter deterrents available at hardware stores. They smell like predator, don't know if they work. I have six cats, four are useless meat loaves. But Levon and Ninja are incredible, just clean up the bodies on the lawn every morning. No birds, squirrels or rabbits...even small dogs for miles around.
 
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