How do you control Rabbits (without shooting)?

[mecsw500]

Got that, a looong time ago - and extra insulation in all the walls, reflective & heavily insulated roofing material, heavy block-out curtains on all the windows, and a 1.8m 'verandah' of sorts over the front windows - each of which has helped 'a little', but cumulatively, not a great deal; but I've found over some years of trying various front garden options (including a couple of different 'desert-scapes' - I had some very impressive cactii that were much harder to get out than you'd think!) that anything hard &/or heat reflective really pushes up the temps in the North facing rooms (where the sun beats down most of the time) - not that we have many, but since we're on the South side of the street and the block is deeper than it is wide, without a knock-down & re-build, we're sorta stuck with them, we've found that even with an additional commercial A/C operating all day on the front rooms only (we've got sufficient solar, so it doesn't cost anything more for electricity), the extra heat in those two rooms radiates quite uncomfortably into the rest of the house all summer. Lawn, actual lawn, not just 'green stuff', is the only thing I've found, and that most home owners in the State have found, that actually reduces that to any significant degree... so far, anyway!

I'm beginning to think about maybe trying a water feature, sorta like a moat (I wonder if I could electrify it too?? ) Not sure what the local council would think about either, tho; and now that the suburbs have reached out to surround us, we can't get away with lotsa things we used to be able to do! (Hence, the no shooting!) We're not even allowed to partake of the monthly ritual of naked yodelling to the full moon at midnight! Mind you, I only know that cos they arrested a dozen people for doing just such a thing just last summer!

There must be some solution as my personal experience of Australia is that half the wildlife is out there to kill you.

Naked yodelling? How long was it before they let you out on bail after that? That sounds risky too, one slip and those little buggers have sharp teeth.

Do flamethrowers count as a weapon? They don't here in the US. You don't even need a permit.

I grew up in East London, the only wildlife we had were drug dealers and knife wielding muggers. Here in the US, bears, moose and cougars don't scare me in comparison.