Rabbit Control and Information

Northwest Nuisance Wildlife Control traps, removes, manages and controls most animal species, including rabbits.

Foraging cottontail rabbit

Our rabbit control services include the removal and control of problem rabbits from urban, rural and suburban areas.  

Here at NNWC, we perform a significant amount of rabbit control every year. We control rabbits in backyard gardens, forest areas, timber land, nurseries and wherever rabbits have become a problem.  

Our rabbit control programs are mostly non-lethal, consisting of live trapping, fencing, habitat modifications and more.    

Washington has both wild and domestic rabbits, but we are going to focus mostly on the wild cottontail rabbit.   

Rabbits 

There are 13 species of cottontail rabbits, with nine of them found in the United States. The cottontail is 15 to 20 inches long and weighs 2 to 4 pounds. Our Washington cottontails are gray or brownish in color, with white on their belly side. Our rabbits molt twice a year and stay the same color. Cottontails can have up to 6 litters per year, but typically have 2 to 3 litters.  

The life span of cottontails is only 12 to 15 months. Gestation period is 28 to 29 days and litter sizes of up to nine, averaging 5 young is common. Cottontail rabbits are born hairless and blind. They will open their eyes in 8 days and leave the nest in 3 weeks.  

Rabbits do considerable damage to vegetable and flower gardens, trees and shrubs. Rabbits will devour a wide variety of flowers, with their favorite being tulips. In vegetable gardens they will eat peas, beans, beets, corn, squash, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, just to name a few. 

Cottontail rabbits also damage trees and shrubs, eating or damaging apple trees, raspberries, blackberry bushes, woody plants, cherry, plum, and even nut trees. The list is long!   

In urban and metropolitan areas, people commonly drop off domestic rabbits at apartment and condo complexes. Rabbits will eat just about every plant in the area. 

Our Rabbit Control Programs are mostly non-lethal. 

For professional rabbit trapping, removal and control, call the experts at Northwest Nuisance Wildlife Control.

(360) 794-3535 or Toll Free at 1-888-868-3063