A Novel Environmental Challenge For Seattle: Rabbits!
There is much utter inward the Seattle media of invading hordes changing the nature of Seattle, amongst Amazon employees together with homeless folks beingness the most often mentioned.
But the Seattle media has chosen to ignore an invasion that has drib dead increasingly serious during the past times year:
The appearance of huge numbers of bunnies roughly the city.
Cute, fluffy creatures that are eating their agency through Seattle's vegetable gardens together with lawns.
I wheel to operate each hateful solar daytime along the Burke-Gilman trail. Before this yr I never saw bunnies...now I run across at to the lowest degree a one-half dozen each morning.
One of my favorite activities is to run or walk through Magnuson Park amongst my footling dog, Abby. On Sunday, I counted 22 bunnies. My Canis familiaris is really excited to run across the rabbits... simply don't worry she is on a leash together with can't laissez passer on chase.
Rabbits are exterior my menage every morning, lazily munching on my lawn. That's fine....less mowing for me.
But right away they accept gone also far....last calendar week I constitute a fatty bunny munching the lettuce inward my vegetable garden. I purchased plastic fencing to halt them to no avail....yesterday ane snuck inward through a minor gap. My lettuce was one-half eaten!
I produce worry that I am turning into a modern version of Elmer Fudd, hunting the hated Wabbit! And if y'all think from the cartoon, the Wabbit ever won.
Early sun morning, driving out of my neighborhood, a rabbit dashed out inward forepart of my car. I was certain that I hitting it, simply miraculously it escaped. I was shaken.
Some neighborhoods inward Seattle accept had rabbit issues before, such every bit the infestation roughly Greenlake circa 2005. But ane agency or the other, the rabbit population waned.
And who could forget the Redmond/Microsoft bunny crisis of 1998, when nearly 1000 bunnies spread over the well-cared lawns of Microsoft together with other Overlake businesses. There was fifty-fifty a Redmond Rabbit Coalition.
But this time, hither inward Seattle, something is different. Seattle's rabbit population is clearly growing exponentially to levels non seen before. There are clearly thousands of bunnies.
But why? Did a lot of people dump their pet rabbits inward local parks? The effects of global warming? (very doubtful)
Has the local coyote population gotten lazy or decided they prefer fatty pet cats who don't offering every bit much of a chase? And what nearly our resident eagle population? Not on the job.
Well, I won't speculate whatever more....but those wabbits going into my vegetable garden amend lookout adult man out!
But the Seattle media has chosen to ignore an invasion that has drib dead increasingly serious during the past times year:
The appearance of huge numbers of bunnies roughly the city.
Cute, fluffy creatures that are eating their agency through Seattle's vegetable gardens together with lawns.
I wheel to operate each hateful solar daytime along the Burke-Gilman trail. Before this yr I never saw bunnies...now I run across at to the lowest degree a one-half dozen each morning.
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| Bunny inward Seattle's Magnuson Park |
Rabbits are exterior my menage every morning, lazily munching on my lawn. That's fine....less mowing for me.
But right away they accept gone also far....last calendar week I constitute a fatty bunny munching the lettuce inward my vegetable garden. I purchased plastic fencing to halt them to no avail....yesterday ane snuck inward through a minor gap. My lettuce was one-half eaten!
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| My vegetable garden later beingness visited past times a hungry rabbit |
Early sun morning, driving out of my neighborhood, a rabbit dashed out inward forepart of my car. I was certain that I hitting it, simply miraculously it escaped. I was shaken.
Some neighborhoods inward Seattle accept had rabbit issues before, such every bit the infestation roughly Greenlake circa 2005. But ane agency or the other, the rabbit population waned.
And who could forget the Redmond/Microsoft bunny crisis of 1998, when nearly 1000 bunnies spread over the well-cared lawns of Microsoft together with other Overlake businesses. There was fifty-fifty a Redmond Rabbit Coalition.
But this time, hither inward Seattle, something is different. Seattle's rabbit population is clearly growing exponentially to levels non seen before. There are clearly thousands of bunnies.
But why? Did a lot of people dump their pet rabbits inward local parks? The effects of global warming? (very doubtful)
Has the local coyote population gotten lazy or decided they prefer fatty pet cats who don't offering every bit much of a chase? And what nearly our resident eagle population? Not on the job.
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| Seattle coyotes appear to live lazy or right away prefer cats |
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