Have you tried everything imaginable to get rabbits out of your landscaping? Even extreme methods such as dousing plants with blood meal and mixing lion dung in the dirt? Try planting white clover in your lawn: rabbits seem to prefer this over lettuce. That's not a sure-fire method, though; in fact, Paul James says there is no such thing as a sure-fire way to get rid of rabbits. As a result, he gave in and purchased a rabbit as a family pet.
Buns is a dwarf rabbit, a Mini-Rex, and he or she--they don't know yet--is almost cute enough to make James forget how much trouble Buns could be if let loose in the garden. Buns provides him with a valuable source of nutrients for the garden: the pelletized droppings that Buns cranks out in impressive quantities represent one of the best of all natural fertilizers.
Whenever James cleans Buns' cage, he saves the droppings and pine sawdust that line the bottom of the cage (cedar sawdust can give rabbits respiratory infections). The sawdust goes straight into the compost pile. He carefully collects the droppings, which he uses to fertilize his potted plants on the patio. Rabbit droppings are the richest of all barnyard animal manures, containing 2.4 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent phosphorous and .6 percent potassium. That's nearly three times as nutrient rich as any other manure on the market (with the possible exception of bat guano), and a really good reason to consider getting a rabbit. Rabbits are fun to play with and will provide you with all the fertilizer you can use.
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