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Your "vermin" is someone else's healthy native ecosystem. I am letting my yard overgrow right now because it is providing homes for wild rabbits. Is that being

Your "vermin" is someone else's healthy native ecosystem. I am letting my yard overgrow right now because it is providing homes for wild rabbits. Is that being a bad neighbor?

krupan 5y ago
If we wanted native ecosystems we wouldn't live in tightly sealed homes in engineered neighborhoods, we'd have lean-tos in the woods.
- AlexandrB 5y ago
  Yes, it has to be one or the other. No other types of housing exist.
hn8788 5y ago
If the rabbits aren't just staying in your yard, then I'd say you're being a bad neighbor. In my experience, the rabbits dig a bunch of holes, and leave piles of poop everywhere, even on porches and sidewalks. If you want to have a wild animals living in your yard, you should move to a rural area.
- ceph_ 5y ago
  If you want to live in an area devoid of nature you should move to a city. But holy shit, rabbits are so benign in their impact. They're not creating tons of burrows like moles. And oh no, you have to deal with tiny poop that's 90% grass and doesn't even smell? People like you are the problem.
jandrese 5y ago
It's also a nice home for mice. Unfortunately the mice population tends to grow large enough that they look for new homes. Your home and your neighbor's homes start to look very enticing and pretty soon you're hearing chewing the walls and power sockets stop working randomly. One of my neighbors let their backyard run wild like that and a couple of years later exterminator trucks were a common sight in the driveways.
Mountain_Skies 5y ago
If your neighbor wants to reduce their dependency on the industrial food system by growing a edible garden in their backyard, yes, rabbits are vermin to them. Each time your rabbits eat your neighbor's lettuce, a head of lettuce from somewhere else in the world (hopefully a local farm but probably not) has to be trucked in to the food market to be purchased by the neighbor.

Your "vermin" is someone else's healthy native ecosystem. I am letting my yard overgrow right now because it is providing homes for wild rabbits. Is that being a bad neighbor?

krupan 5y ago

If we wanted native ecosystems we wouldn't live in tightly sealed homes in engineered neighborhoods, we'd have lean-tos in the woods.

AlexandrB 5y ago
Yes, it has to be one or the other. No other types of housing exist.

hn8788 5y ago

If the rabbits aren't just staying in your yard, then I'd say you're being a bad neighbor. In my experience, the rabbits dig a bunch of holes, and leave piles of poop everywhere, even on porches and sidewalks. If you want to have a wild animals living in your yard, you should move to a rural area.

ceph_ 5y ago
If you want to live in an area devoid of nature you should move to a city. But holy shit, rabbits are so benign in their impact. They're not creating tons of burrows like moles. And oh no, you have to deal with tiny poop that's 90% grass and doesn't even smell? People like you are the problem.

jandrese 5y ago

It's also a nice home for mice. Unfortunately the mice population tends to grow large enough that they look for new homes. Your home and your neighbor's homes start to look very enticing and pretty soon you're hearing chewing the walls and power sockets stop working randomly. One of my neighbors let their backyard run wild like that and a couple of years later exterminator trucks were a common sight in the driveways.

Mountain_Skies 5y ago

If your neighbor wants to reduce their dependency on the industrial food system by growing a edible garden in their backyard, yes, rabbits are vermin to them. Each time your rabbits eat your neighbor's lettuce, a head of lettuce from somewhere else in the world (hopefully a local farm but probably not) has to be trucked in to the food market to be purchased by the neighbor.