YDI. Next time, make a fence! That keeps our bunnies out of our gardens! Fences for bunnies, soap for deer, and plant a wall of onions for groundhogs (they tend to hate them, roots and all).

You shouldn't kill ANY animals. Bugs, insects, mammals, birds, whatEVER, you shouldn't kill them. Then again there are way too many insects in the world.... YDI. Stupid ****. Something is seriously wrong with you.

dies YDI meen u deserve it and my parents have the same prob so we got a german shepard we almost never see tht bunny out again

Next time do us all a favor and shoot yourself in the face.

And...Why does everyone assume he is an American? Could be a South African! We are just as well armed, and just as prone to blasting away without thinking! Back to the Aussie #132 - how's your government going with it's project to pay people to shoot cane-toads going? Last I heard they were paying people to hunt them with flashlights?

**** head. good.

Bugs Bunny strikes again! But seriously, your aim sucks.

#136: Of course I know that leather, eggs, dairy, etc come from captive animals. I tried to make very clear that I cut down on my use of animals wherever possible to do so without harming my standard of living to an unacceptable degree. The only eggs I eat come from a local free-range farm, I don't drink much milk other than what goes in my tea, all my leathers are second-hand and have lasted years, and will last many, many more. I eat a lot of cheese (a main source of my protein), and I'm aware that male cows are slaughtered as a side-effect of the dairy industry, but hopefully it's far fewer than would be killed if I were eating them directly. My only unjustifiable luxury is a leather sofa. Apart from that sofa, I try to only have an animal killed for my benefit when necessary, and will actively seek non-animal alternatives where possible. I'm not making a huge sacrifice (for example, I could give up cheese and stick to pulses if I was really committed), but the fact that I'm able to do it with barely any impact on my lifestyle goes to show that it's easy enough for most anyone to do it. But that's me. I only have a small garden, and that's paved and gravelled. But had I spent countless hours of labour and a large amount of money on a living garden, only to watch it get repeatedly ravaged by wild animals who, at least around here, have plenty of other wild-growing food sources to choose from, then I might well be of the same mind as the OP.

I garden too, except I have a cool hand and a steady shot. I have no problem with animals at my garden because i keep a loaded pellet gun with a scope on it. The animals dart off when I start to open my window now.

You deserved it. Maybe you should have used your brain and went out to the store and bought some chicken wire and made a fence around your garden. That would have kept the rabbit out for good and you wouldn't have had to worry about killing it or ruining your pool. But since you tried to kill the rabbit when it was just trying to eat you deserved it 110%. I'm glad your basement got flooded