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by novaleaf 355 days ago
I'm in cottage lake woodinville, same.

Even more bizarre I fenced in my yard hoping to keep out the rabbits, but they always find a way in. Last winter I went out there and found a dismembered rabbit in the middle of the yard. I went to get a bag to pick it up, and when I got back, all that was left were a couple feet. An eagle maybe? I left the feet, but nothing came to get them :D

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We had a house near Matthews Beach, and when we moved in there were many rabbits in the neighborhood and in our yard. We have a terrier-mix mutt, and there weren't rabbits in our yard for long...
We have had the opposite experience: over the years, mama rabbits have had multiple litters in our backyard. We have two pit bull terriers, and they would chase the rabbits (never catching them), so mama rabbit knows there are dogs. My only theory is that the dogs are a known quantity, and the dogs keep the real predators out of the backyard.

That, or rabbits are just that dumb.

My dog definitely caught rabbits. He even brought two kits into the house. He's a sweetheart in every other circumstance, but he loves toys that squeak when he mauls them.