Our neighbor has many rabbits in their yard living under their shed and we want to attract them to our yard too. We are also concerned that we may be disturbing the current breeding of young rabbits around some bushes.
We are real nature lovers, have many trees and bushes, and want them here to add to a natural wooded setting of the yard by attracting small animals. So the first question is: does dark bark mulch with a strong muclhy odor repel rabbits? We hope the answer is "no" because we just laid several yards of it where the rabbits were hanging out under a bush.
One rabbit is laying under the same bush every day. Therefore, I'm wondering if a nest was in progress too. Could it be that in late August in the Northeastern USA, a rabbit is breeding it's young? They just starting hanging under the bush a week ago (maybe to stay out of the heat?).