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[Pokeygizmo]

I have a bunny trapped under my dishwasher, under the deadspace of the kitchen cabinets.

My cat brought him in to play last night. I thought I had bunny cornered, a clean catch and release. He found a gap and whoosh, he was gone.

I cannot get to him without removing the dishwasher. I set a live trap hoping, hoping, hoping he would find his way into it. I had to bait it with peanut butter, not a green veggie (nor an ORANGE carrot) in the house. I have slacked on grocery restocking this week. These past two weeks.

Bunny is apparently none too keen on peanut butter.

Sigh, he will have to wait until I can escape from work today and return home.

Removing the dishwasher, oy. It is attached, not easily slidden out nor a true built-in either. Something I have not done before. Wasn't planning on doing. Hope I can do???? Have to do...bunny has to go, dead or alive. Preferably alive.

Yes, Dee. There is always something else that crops up on the never-ending list

I hope yours is a short one, today.

 

[Pokeygizmo]

Good morning, Fran!!!

 

[FranC]

Maybe you should get a couple carrots??

 

[Pokeygizmo]

Maybe you should get a couple carrots??

Yes, I think I will

I am wondering if I ought not go pull some grass, some weeds, some clover, some dandelions from the yard?

I have seen the big rabbits in the neighbors yard on occasion—no carrots over there and they are munching on something...



ETA: But first things first, I need coffee.

I shall be back later and let you know how it goes.

 

[FranC]

That's probably a better idea to do greens.

 

[5cardstud]

I have a bunny trapped under my dishwasher, under the deadspace of the kitchen cabinets.

My cat brought him in to play last night. I thought I had bunny cornered, a clean catch and release. He found a gap and whoosh, he was gone.

I cannot get to him without removing the dishwasher. I set a live trap hoping, hoping, hoping he would find his way into it. I had to bait it with peanut butter, not a green veggie (nor an ORANGE carrot) in the house. I have slacked on grocery restocking this week. These past two weeks.

Bunny is apparently none too keen on peanut butter.

Sigh, he will have to wait until I can escape from work today and return home.

Removing the dishwasher, oy. It is attached, not easily slidden out nor a true built-in either. Something I have not done before. Wasn't planning on doing. Hope I can do???? Have to do...bunny has to go, dead or alive. Preferably alive.

Yes, Dee. There is always something else that crops up on the never-ending list

I hope yours is a short one, today.

They usually have 2 screws that go into the counter at the top of the dishwasher. Open the door and look at the top.

 

[Bovinia]

Morning everyone

I'm just a plain old brown haired gal, now sporting a few well earned silver streaks.

Dee, that's just droop ... hot! We are in a semi concrete jungle with the paved streets, partly paved drive. What really overheats us are the dark shingles and barn red siding on this old, not so well insulated house.

Aww Pokey, I hope bunny finds his way into the live trap without you having to pull the dishwasher! How terrified he must be!

 

[El Dee]

Auburn is my color as well...

This bunny presents a dilemma,,,,Traumatized by the kitty and a strange new world it isn't likely to be lured by food...

Playing receiving clerk again today...Hoping to see my clutch arrive...

Temps are zooming again with a threat of severe thunderstorms.....

I rolled w/free Avast for years and all was gravy...Last year I decided to get a paid subscription...Now near the end they send an alert every log on saying the anti-spam is off...I manually turn it on every time...There is also a hint-hint that my service expires in a month...Annoying!!!!!!! Back to free for me...

 

[Pokeygizmo]

Yes, 5c, and thank you...I know of the two screws you speak. I had to replace one once-upon-a-time ago that had worked itself loose. That is all that holds it, I think? I hope.

Yes, the little guy must be terrified, Bov. It bothers me terribly, actually. Enough so that I am finishing up my mandatory meeting here this morning and have taken leave time to go home and do my best to oust the fellow.

A dilemma, indeed, Dee. I really didn't think he'd much be interested in the food, it was just wishful thinking. I am not much interested in pulling out the dishwasher but one's gotta do what one's gotta do. And I can't think of what else to do, no epiphanies have been forthcoming


I have had the same or similar Avast issue as you've described. Thus far, I have ignored it but the pop-ups irritate me. I'll take care of that, eventually. Wabbit sitch, first.


I'll holler for help if I get stuck...

Sent from my SCH-I535

 

[JerryRM]

Pokey, print this and put the pic in the live trap. That nasty little wabbit will enter. LOL



Good morning, Peeps.

 

[5cardstud]

Nice picture Jerry. I'd be inclined to go into a trap for that if I was a rabbit. What she needs is this guy.

 

[JerryRM]

Nice picture Jerry. I'd be inclined to go into a trap for that if I was a rabbit. What she needs is this guy.

Err, I don't know about that, 5card. Elmer may end up in the trap, while the wabbit has the run of the house.

 

[5cardstud]

Err, I don't know about that, 5card. Elmer may end up in the trap, while the wabbit has the run of the house.

Dagnabbit you're probably right. JD, my beagle, would love a chance at rooting that crazy wabbit out of there.

 

[Pokeygizmo]

The screws came loose readily and the dishwasher moved on its runners easily enough—to a point. No tugging, no twisting, no pushing it in and pulling it back would set it free further than 2/3s the way out.

I could not see within, behind, to the side of— I could not open the cabinet door to crawl in and peek around. Ugh. So I removed the kickplate and with flashlight in hand found the tether, an angry yellow power cord, fed through the floor, no slack in the line whatsoever.

Perhaps I could cut the power off at the fuse box, remove the cord where it joined the machine and go about my business? But, alas, Tim the Toolman I am not and there was no way I could manage the connecting bolts/screws as they faced left and away and room was so limited underneath. And, truthfully, it is a far a better thing that I leave things electric alone, anyways

Perhaps the line was slack under the house and I could feed it up through the floor to further extricate the dishwasher? I do not go under the house, into the crawlspace. Ever. And doubly ever in the summer, there are terrible things that lurk there, Brown Recluse, Black Widows, snakes and scorpions, heaven knows what else...........

I could see the yellow line glowing through the cobwebs, but the line wasn't slack. Scratch that.

Back at the dishwasher, I could see straight back to the wall from looking under, no sign of bunny. I couldn't look around the corners, into the deadspace under the cabinets, to note a presence or not. I took my cell phone and took flash-lit pictures all around, aiming blindly but capturing the recesses and guess what?

No bunny.

All I can figure is that he had pushed through, around my wadded up plastic grocery bags that I had used to plug the gap—I did not pay them any mind when I started these afternoon shenanigans . That, or I had lost my mind But, no, there had been a bunny and I had seen him slip into that damned gap. I ain't that far gone yet But he wasn't there now, not in any shape, form or fashion. He wasn't in the grass and dandelion filled trap. Where was the bugger?

I went Ahab on that rodent's cute, cotton-tailed hiney, turned the house upside down. Searched every crack, every crevice, every corner, every closet. Under every bed, behind every curtain, under the couch, behind the washer, the dryer...everywhere. I am good at this, as some of you may recall. My cat has a history of bringing his reluctant toys inside and I have an equal and, until now, successful history of tracking them down and escorting them out.

No bunny.

I have named him Moby. And I have the trap still set, freshly clovered. And I wait. But methinks he is gone for Sam, my cat, is as nonchalant as he can be, not giving a whit about all the uproar and commotion, not stalking nor mewing at a seemingly empty space possibly occupied by a bunny.

And that is that.

I hope

 

[Bovinia]

Hahaha! What a wonderful story of little bunny foo foo! I do believe Moby fits him much better tho I'm sure he's long gone, and happily munching on someone else's clover by now!

Chase had a spa day, and is now freshly bathed and sheared. He hates going to the groomer, but he always feels much better afterwards

 

[5cardstud]

Me thinks la poco conejo esta ido La diminuto aparatito. Oh heck I think the little rabbit is gone Pokeygizmo.

 

[FranC]

That was quite a bunny chasing adventure you had there,Pokey

 

[FranC]

Good evening,folks

 

[5cardstud]

It was 80° shade just now so no wonder I've been so hot today. I don't do hot very well.

 

[FranC]

We had 75 today and it was very muggy for awhile but has cooled right down now.