Eat Wire, Bunnies!

Last time, I promised to tell you about Bob's plan to foil the bunny population. You may have thought he would resort to violent methods of extermination but think again. Only one animal can be dispatched at a time and one has to catch the offender red handed, and anyway, it is illegal to do so in the city. Bob found a saner, more mature option.

The Problem:
Butch, the outside cat whose name is only one letter different than his grumpy sounding vocalizations, had been missing for a couple of weeks and in that time the rabbits became bold and confident. Early in the morning, while the dew was still on the veg, they feasted on whole plants. The last victims were two of the three young, tender black locust tree seedlings. Only one was left to give mute testimony to the carnage.

The Solution:
As luck would have it, about this time Bob went to old friend Dianne's house to fix a table leg and while there mentioned he needed to buy some rabbit wire. Dianne produced a roll of used wire she was going to put out for the trash and ta da! the material for the bunny foiling cages was at hand. Not that it was an easy fix. The wire was lumpy and twisted and had to be tamed back into shape but then it was ready for its new life.

Each cage is a work of art, I think. Bob measured the wire using pi to determine how long each strip of wire needed to be to mate up with the round tops he cut. That may be the first practical use of pi I've witnessed first hand. Okay, so I am an English type, not a math type. It is genetic, I think. Daughter Sarah once asked her math instructor if she could write a little story about each problem rather than solving the problem... but I digress.

Using a needle nosed pliers, Bob fastened each section of the cage by twisting the wire around the adjoining wire until, after what seemed to me a gazillion junctions the cages were complete. They are big enough to get the plants through that irresistible to rabbit phase and should last for years.

And you thought this post was going to involve some violence.