Pesky Wabbits

There's a children's poem in Latvian that goes about like this:

A little bunny

A little kitty

Met on the road and wondered:

"Where're you hopping, bunny?"

"To cabbage patch, kitty."

...

I was reminder of this poem this morning. Except those two did not meet on the road. The real-life kitty’s name is Butch, he is hundred years old and belongs to our neighbors. A rabbit was inside my newly net-fenced vegetable patch. Butch was ready to pounce on the rabbit and it made the rabbit very nervous and it ran frantically around, as it could not get out at first. Finally, he escaped.

My father-in-law and I put a deer net around my vegetable patch last Saturday. We secured the bottom part with some bricks and both agreed that it will keep rabbits away, too. Yesterday evening I noticed that one of the pea shoots was cut to the ground. This morning my suspicion that rabbits can still get in was plainly confirmed. More bricks to come! I HOPE that will do. I planted those string beans for our dinners, not to feed local wildlife!