How To Make Rabbit Traps

Though rabbits are always seen as lovely little creatures they are not as harmless as they appear. It is their restless nature and habit of eating any green plant and vegetables can become annoying at times. Especially if you have a beautiful garden at your home that you have built with so much care and time. The rabbits will often come to your garden and chew the leaves of the plants in your garden and the vegetables that you have grown with so much care. To get rid of these annoying creatures you can use rabbit traps. It is really effective way to catch the rabbits in the traps as that will prevent these rabbits from intruding in your home or garden. Though you can easily buy the rabbit traps at the local stores, you can also save the dollars by making the rabbit traps yourself. Wondering about how to make rabbit traps, here are some really helpful tips coming your way on how to make rabbit traps?

Steps to make a rabbit trap –

1. For making rabbit traps the first thing that you need is a big sturdy box. Preferably the box should be made of wood or metal as that would keep the wild and restless rabbits in it. It should be heavy and strong enough to keep the rabbits confined. It is always better to have a large box that is about a feet high and wide and about 3 feet long. With a large box you can actually catch more than one rabbit at a time.
2. The next thing that you would need to build the trap is a stick that is about 6 to 8 inches long. You would also need a wire or string that about 18 inches long. You have to tie the string with the stick at about two inches from the bottom of the stick.
3. Now you have to put a piece of food at the other side of the stick and place the stick in the box in such a way that at the slightest pull of the string the stick will be pulled and the box will fall flat on the object. Do not let any slack of the string as that would not move the stick even if the rabbit gets into the box and eats the bait altogether. Now your rabbit trap is ready to be used for catching the rabbits.

Besides making the rabbit trap you should also find out a proper place to place the trap. Ideally you should place the trap in a place where you have noticed most number of rabbits. Once you set the rabbit trap, do not forget to test if the trap is working properly or not. You can use a long stick to touch the string and see if the stick is pulling the box. If it does then you can be rest assured that the trap is working properly, if not you have to make further modifications in the setting of the string and the stick as well. Now keep a close watch on the rabbit trap and catch the rabbits that have made your life miserable.