There is a baby rabbit in that has appeared from the field into our garden and I know it is just a matter of time before a local cat gets it.

Assuming the cat doesn't kill it, what is most humane way of dispatching the bunny given it will likely be stunned and injured?

Steve

 

Get a humane trap and take it to the rspca.

 

Garden spade across the back of the neck, press down hard with your foot on the spade.

 

So decapitation!

Will that not be messy?

Steve

 

Make it watch eastenders. oh wait, you said humane

 

Noooooooooooooooo!

it's not a baby, it's Fiver! If you kill him all the other rabbits will be trapped in a gassed warren.

I know this as I've read the story..........

 

www.will-it-blend.com

 

Hole, car airbag, car battery, cables, and carrots.

1st Rabbit in space!!


But live catch cage.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=l....c0.m270.l1313

 

Braised with shallots in red wine

 

 

air rifle, or just give it a chance and see if it can survive? if you're insistant on killing it, the spade should sort it, if not break its neck, head in one hand body in other, and with a twist and snap motion it should do the trick you should hear a loud snap noise.

HTH

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHL...eature=related

Most traumatic kids films ever.


For those that don't want to waste 3 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuAM_...layer_embedded

Not quite so traumatic when played with a Benny Hill soundtrack

 

I few mortally wounded Wood Pigeons have met their ends in our garden, no point trying to dress it up, if you are a Pigeon and you have a broken wing then its Game Over, even worse when one has done a few rounds with a small Terrier/Poodle hybrid called Rambo who is pacing round all puffed up thinking he is hard and tryign to wade in to finish the job. it isnt going to get fixed and keeping one alive in a cardboard box in the garage is more cruel than fetching Messrs Spear and Jackson from the shed.

I did do it by hand once, by wringing its neck but the head fell off and the body kept going for some time, didnt bother me one iota but the neighbour looking out the window was probably slightly freaked out

Kill it, quickly, then check if the neighbours are missing a pet bunny.

 

I doubt if there would be enough meat on it for a starter never mind a main!

It's still going. We're keeping our cat in, as are next door to see if it can summon up the courage to leave the garden itself.

Steve

 

You can kill a rabbit with pretty much any sharp enough blow to the back of the neck, it definitely doesn't have to actually cut through. A well delivered karate chop should easily do it, or the nearest equivalent with a piece of metal pipe, hardwood stick, etc.

Little bit of trivia - the word for whiplash in French literally translates as "the rabbit jolt" (proving the point about how fragile their necks are).

 

Its a rabbit not a rabid flesh eating purple people eater, just go out with some cardboard and catch it, stick it in a cardboard box and take it to the RSPCA or wildlife sanctuary.

 

Have you ever tried to catch a rabbit!

Plus it's taken refuge between our playhouse and fence - a gap only a few inches wide.

I'd rather not stress the animal by trying to poke it out with a stick!

Steve

 

Yeah snare works a treat lol.

But surely you can get it to go into the playhouse a scattering of carrot lettuce and other enticing things, then a long length of string onto the door and when in side close the door.

 

I want it out of the garden, back into the field, not turn the kids playhouse into a hutch

 

In that case...

 

No but you can catch it and release it back lol.

 

And if you find out they are, I suggest SJ Skylines post to dispose of the evidence!

 

It has a right to its life just like any other creature. Not much you can do if a cat does manage to catch it. The cat is likely to kill it anyway if it does catch it. If you trapped it and put it back in its original field it is quite likely to find its way back to your garden.

I think you would do better to let it do what it wants and hope that it gets away with it.

Les

 

How can you be so sure it's harmless?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

 

LOL You'll lot are awful. It's a cute bunny: stick it in a container and take it along to a RSPCA shelter.

PS Hazel, you've been feeling very tired recently haven't you! ......

 

Have anyone ever tried to catch a wild rabbit

I'd happily pay money to watch a human trying to catch a wild rabbit during the day.

Since I'll be there for a while, I shall bring my own chair, beer and snacks

 

Night is better; pair of torches held about a car width apart

 

Pah! It's easy: just use the Elmer Fudd method

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHujwj6RBSM


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Be vewey vewey quiet - I'm huntng wabbits