The Tale of Peter Pumpkin Patch

I'm at a tough cross roads internally with my tree hugging' animal lovin' self and my strong desire to protect our crop of pumpkins from anything harming them. 

To get to the point, we have a dang rabbit.

    I know without a shadow of a doubt that he (or she) is the reason I have been unable to grow a single freakin' Sun Flower. First, it was the birds and then, I know it was "Peter" who has been nibbling off the tops of EVERY SINGLE sunflower that has attempted to come up from the ground.      How in the world do Sun Flower farmers do it??? Seriously??? How do they do it??? My friend Garrah Leshe laughed and called me "Mr Mcgregor" the other day...

 And now I am wondering, are our pumpkin plants next for the little cotton tail???

They are now slowly starting to produce these beautiful yellow buds and I'm wondering if Peter will think they look like cotton candy??

  He pretty much shows up every morning and night. Our dogs are completely worthless!!! Here he is in our back yard. See the little figure in the middle?

Finally, Penny notices him but doesn't realize that he is OUTSIDE of the fence. 

I will give her a pat for trying though. At least she (kind-of) ran towards him.....

So, I see him in the patch. I see him in our back yard. And I see him in our neighbor Allison's back yard right next door.

     I again asked Facebook peeps about help with deterring Rabbits.... Here is my post:

I REALLY appreciate everyone's suggestions and feedback.

 Sounds like urine might be the way to go-One of my fav florists ~ Ronnie Pesnell~ said to use "human urine".

I immediately started picturing us all squatting around the patch each day!! heehehe Or me putting  jars by all the toilets for everyone to start peeing in!!! lolololol

And a few people suggested Fox Urine.

How in the world do they bottle up Fox Urine? Sapna-Is it really truly Fox Urine??

And our cousin Krystal suggested Irish Spring Soap.... Do I just buy a bunch of bars and start cutting it in little pieces all over the patch?

 Of course lots of folks just said to shoot him...... 

  When I kind of hinted around to Allison about maybe Brent shooting Peter,  she quickly told me she had seen a little baby with it and to please NOT tell her if we do shoot it. I have not personally seen any babies, but that is not to say that we aren't seeing different rabbits. There is lots of underbrush and woods behind the patch. I'm thinking she is a softie like me and just doesn't want to see any of them killed. There is something so sweet about a little brown rabbit hopping through the forrest....

  So, moment of truth came this morning. 

There he was in all his glory in our back yard.

The dogs had no idea. They were still snoozing in their dog houses. The kids ran to go tell Daddy. They are pumped!! Here they are standing on top of an ice chest to get a good view of this rabbit who

 is about to die.  Brent comes quickly with his gun.. He lifts it up and I can tell he has the perfect shot.....SH#T! I start panicking and my eyes start tearing up with big tears....

  "DONT KILL HIM"

"PLEASE DONT KILL HIM"

"OH BRENT, PLEASE DONT DO THIS"

And being the good husband he is, he slowly lowers his gun and looks at me like I'm an idiot.

And then I start thinking out loud to him....

"Maybe he could become our pet? Like a wild pet? Maybe we can just put food out for him like carrots and stuff. Like on a tray. And he will get full eating that food and not worry with our pumpkins?" 

I'm smiling as I'm picturing us all living in harmony. The pumpkins are fine. Peter has his tray of food and no one is dead. 

  He is watching the rabbit run away and thinking that his wife is a total moron.

"Seriously Lis? Are you kidding me? All you would be doing is inviting more animals to come and eat from your little tray? Bad idea." And he shakes his head and goes and puts his gun up.

I guess I'm going online today 

and using my Amazon Prime to order some Fox Urine and a case of Irish Spring Soap...

P.S. I have not seen a single deer track since the hair all went out!! YAY!!!