Sometimes you just have to draw from your imagination when there’s nothing obvious that inspires you. I saw a greeting card a few years ago with a rabbit wearing a “coat of many carrots”. For some reason it popped into my head as I was thinking about something to sketch. That got me to thinking about gardening. So I put the two together while thinking about the best gardener I know.
My father-in-law has a garden every year, a big one. He has gone to great lengths to keep deer and rabbits from making regular visits to the “Forest Friends All You Can Eat Buffet. As I sketched this, I thought about how he surely must have hollered “get outta my garden!” (plus an expletive or two) many times over the years before he finally came up with a cracker jack solution.
Now he relies on a tall, electrified fence to keep the critters out. They just get a “little tingle” when they touch it. Nothing harmful. The rabbits can’t dig under and the deer can’t jump over.
When they try…..ZZZzzzzzzzttt!! The rabbits high-tail it. But the deer bolt, stop, and then stare at the fence with a look of “wha’ happened?”
One benefit of having a garden that attracts bunnies though, is that he can safely coral them and take them to the best place a bunny could ever hope to be. That would be the Lookout Beagle Club.
No such benefits have yet been discovered for attracting the deer however.
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