Habitat Modification
Although frequently overlooked, removing brush piles, weed patches, dumps, and other debris near fruit gardens can be a useful way to manage rabbits. Keeping your grass mowed will remove potential cover that might attract cottontails to your garden. Filling old woodchuck or skunk burrows will remove their potential as rabbit homes. Encouraging the rabbit's natural enemies--or at least not interfering with them--may aid in reducing rabbit damage. Hawks, owls, foxes, mink, weasels, and snakes all help control rabbits.
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