Your neighbours

[C8RKH]

28 minutes ago, Mark Blanchard said:

He's an ex councillor and Mayor, so he thinks he's untouchable! 

FTFY

[snowrx]

My lazy-ass neighbor slept the whole winter away, seems to have just woken up for 4/20 as this is the first time I've seen him this year.

 

[red vtec]

My neighbour has taken to feeding the pigeons, along with the foxes, squirrels etc... we live in a semi detached in a town. to say I,m hacked off is an understatement 

[march]

If you were closer I would lend you my air rifle! 

[red vtec]

17 minutes ago, march said:

If you were closer I would lend you my air rifle! 

trouble is we only have a small garden so I cant shoot the things. you can shoot feral pigeons with the appropriate license 

[C8RKH]

31 minutes ago, red vtec said:

trouble is we only have a small garden so I cant shoot the things. you can shoot feral pigeons with the appropriate license 

Shoot the neighbours, problem solved, and society improved.

[red vtec]

2 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

Shoot the neighbours, problem solved, and society improved.

its tempting, she must know what a pain they are. 

 

[C8RKH]

7 minutes ago, red vtec said:

its tempting, she must know what a pain they are. 

 

Every Sunday morning when you're frying up a nice, lovely, bacon roll for breakfast, cook an extra rasher. Cut it up into nice little pieces and leave it on her side of the fence near the house wall. Watch her scream as the rats start to infest her place and then point out it must be all the "bird, squirrel, fox" food that she is putting out that is attracting the rats. It's an even sweeter revenge if she happens to be a vegetarian, a bollock shaker of a revenge if she is a vegan!

[red vtec]

4 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

Every Sunday morning when you're frying up a nice, lovely, bacon roll for breakfast, cook an extra rasher. Cut it up into nice little pieces and leave it on her side of the fence near the house wall. Watch her scream as the rats start to infest her place and then point out it must be all the "bird, squirrel, fox" food that she is putting out that is attracting the rats. It's an even sweeter revenge if she happens to be a vegetarian, a bollock shaker of a revenge if she is a vegan!

I spoke to Enviromental Health and they said the one thing they can act on is Rats. 

[C8RKH]

Rats are actually very clean animals. You cannot say the same for squirrels or pigeons.

[Chillidoggy]

We live in a built-up area and have foxes roaming around in broad daylight. They’ve taken up residence under a shed in the garden of an empty house, but as far as I know no-one feeds them.

We also suffer from squirrels, and very often see them scuttling along the fence, or even outside in the road, carrying what must be stolen peanuts from bird feeders. The wife hates them because they dig up her pot plants to bury the nuts, and leave a bloody big mess everywhere.

We don’t tend to have pigeons, but the collar doves are noisy in the spring, as are the magpies. The biggest pain though, is the herring gulls. They rip open bags of rubbish, and chuck it everywhere looking for food. We are also below their flight path, and the car gets shit-bombed all the time, which is a pain.

[red vtec]

@C8RKH what annoys me is that as you say pigeons are a health hazard, and I don't for one minute think she is that naive. It's just bloody arrogant as she want to feed the "poor little birds and foxes" (say that whilst playing a violin). I'm off to cook bacon..

 

@Chillidoggy The trouble is my neighbour actively feeds them all, she even complained how much it was costing her to feed the fox!! (how about don't?)

[Chillidoggy]

I once shot a fox on my mate’s farm years ago. When I got up close to it, whilst it was definitely dead, its fur was alive with fleas. Dreadful things, they are.

[C8RKH]

I sympathise, and can only recommend a course of action that is highly illegal and involves the digging of a hole, around 6ft in length, 2ft in width, and 6ft in depth. Hit the stupid woman with a spade on the head and push her in the direction of the hole. Sprinkle any remaining pigeon, squirrel fox food over her and when the bloody animals are feeding then bury them with her in the hole. She can then forever be with the lovely animals! (please read my small print below).

 

Now, I am very fortunate in that I live in the country. Way off the grid really. As a result, I am quite tolerant of animals/birds as my "plot" is just over half and acre and there is plenty of space for all of us. Indeed, in general, I am much more tolerant of wildlife than I am of people. The former I love to watch and observe, the majority of the latter I just wish to bury in a very deep hole.

I have, in my garden:

red squirrels in the trees - love watching them dart about

more birds than I can name, but including Owls in an Owl box, a lovely great spotted woodpecker, several very colourful pheasants that come and join us for breakfast on our decking, and just about every variety of Tit possible, including my neighbour who is the biggest Tit on the planet (but I don't let him in my garden). We also have a full menagerie of various types of finch, sparrow, robins, blackbirds (a couple of which are now tame and will take worms, and chunks of scone, direct from my hand) and occasionally a quite shy, but magnificently regal looking heron.

we don't have foxes, but we do have several deer that like to jump over the fence and feast on some of the plants and the new shoots on several bushes

we also have a family of mice that scurry across the wall opposite our kitchen window, and feed on the nuts/seeds dropped by the birds from the bird feeders. We don't have an issue with the mice coming into the house, as there is plenty of food for them outside all year around, and as we know where they live, we don't disturb their nest.

Behind us on the hill we have at least 6 nesting pairs of buzzards and there is nothing more delightful than lying on the grass, with a cold beer, in the summer, watching and listening to the Buzzards teaching their young how to glide, soar, and hunt.

Nature is wonderful, but why the hell we have so many scummy humans infesting the planet is beyond me.