Maybe The Dingo Ate Your Baby

Remember our brand new landscaping job? All new plants and fresh, new hostas? Remember all the sweat and tears that went into removing the gravel, replanting and mulching? So imagine our horror when we woke up this morning to find our brand new hosta EATEN! Yes, you read that correctly, it was eaten. By a rabbit!

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Apparently, the cute little bunny rabbits that we have seen all over our neighborhood and back yard are notorious for eating everything plant and grass related in its path. Now being that this girl grew up in South Florida and the only rabbits I have had experience with are either in pet stores or at the fair, how would I know to be wary about this? I quickly scoured the Internet for rabbit ridding secrets. I read everything from planting garlic or cucumbers to repel rabbits to scattering your dogs hair or peeing (yes, peeing!) on your bushes to keep rabbits away. Since I assume our neighbors might not adjust so well to us urinating all over our front lawn I figured there must be a better solution. With one quick phone call to our landscaping guru friend who lives in Richmond, he immediately said, "run, don't walk to your nearest Lowes to pick up, Liquid Fence." He said that the little bugger and his hosta eating riff raff rabbit friends would be back tonight to finish off the job if we didn't act fast. So that's exactly what we did!

Never did I think I would live somewhere where I would have to buy Deer and Rabbit Repellent to spray on my front lawn!

Speaking of deer, the other night I came home to find 5 deer on our lawn eating away at our grass. How crazy is that? A soon as I turned in they galloped away into the neighboring forest. Guess this little puppy will get a lot of use at our new house!

Does anyone know if our little hosta will recover from its brutal devouring?