<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0keZmB_1AxuPiHe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0keZmB_1AxuPiHe00" width="1200" height="600" >YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Yuma homeowner says rabbits are causing damage to her property after what started as a handful of bunnies turned into a growing problem.Gayle Handcock pointed out at least eight holes dug throughout her backyard. One of them, right under an air-conditioning vent, looks “more like a bear cave,” she said.Handcock says the rabbits are making it impossible for her to enjoy the home she’s lived in for decades.“I would like to enjoy my backyard, but it belongs to them now,” Handcock said.<h2>Problem began four years ago</h2>She’s lived in the home for more than 50 years and says the problem began about four years ago. According to Handcock, it started when a neighbor’s pet rabbits had babies and escaped after an accident damaged a back fence.“My neighbor’s pet bunnies had babies. Then there were 12 of them, and there was an accident with her back fence, and the bunnies got out, and they went all over the neighborhood,” Handcock said.Handcock says the rabbits are now doing more than digging. She claims they’ve chewed through wiring around her home, and she’s even starting to see cracks forming in her walls.She has put up fencing, crates and covers around vents and filters to try to keep them out.“Because they chewed that wire and it’s been replaced,” Handcock said. “The babies go underneath there. The crates are to keep them from going into my air-conditioned decks and vents and filters.”<h2>Limited help available</h2>Despite her efforts, she says the rabbits keep coming. Handcock said she caught eight rabbits yesterday and has been trying to give them away whenever she can.She says at one point she was getting help from animal control and the Humane Society, but that support has faded.“Humane Society was taking two bunnies a month, but then the kitten disease came out and they shut that down. Animal control won’t even come for a sick or injured one,” Handcock said.Handcock says her home insurance doesn’t cover an infestation like this, and paying out of pocket isn’t realistic. She said one exterminator quoted her a price she couldn’t afford.“I was told to call an exterminator, and they wanted $350 a rabbit—and I’ve seen 32 at one time,” Handcock said.Handcock believes there may now be more than 100 rabbits in and around her yard.She says she’ll keep trying to humanely re-home them, but she’s hoping the city or animal control will step in with a long-term solution.See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it.Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send it to us here with a brief description.</div></body>

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YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Yuma homeowner says rabbits are causing damage to her property after what started as a handful of bunnies turned into a growing problem. Gayle Handcock pointed out at least eight holes dug throughout her backyard. One of them, right under an air-conditioning vent, looks “more like a bear cave,” she said.

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YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — A Yuma homeowner says rabbits are causing damage to her property after what started as a handful of bunnies turned into a growing pro

Yuma homeowner battles rabbit infestation causing property damage

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