I used pit bull as an example of size. She was the biggest dog in the neighborhood, and was actually sweet when she wasn’t chained. She had to be chained because she learned to climb the chain link fence. I suspect the cats showed her how to do it.

Cleaning my Mother’s sidewalk was like shoveling out a dairy barn. What a mess.

They terrorize feral dogs and cats, and domesticated species through and including pit bulls
you would be amazed at how many pit bulls are marshmallow dogs. their reputation for viciousness is vastly undeserved.

those characters fit right into this neighborhood. and yeah they do make pigeons look like pikers.
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An adult Muscovy drake can break your arm with a wing hit. They roost in trees or on the roof of your car and make pigeons seem like pikers.

They are a domesticated species from Brazil, and, as a result, no one will take responsibility for them, not the Feds, not the state, not local animal control. They will put you in a circular game of phone tag and claim that some other group is responsible.

They have clutches of over a dozen eggs at a time, and are omnivores, eating anything and everything that comes their way, including gold fish and koi in water gardens.

They are raised for their breast meat which is considered a gourmet delicacy, but lily-livered restaurant owners [including the Asians, I might add] want you to be a certified food processor who delivers only the meat.

They terrorize feral dogs and cats, and domesticated species through and including pit bulls, as a former neighbor with a couple of hundred dollars in vet’s charges to sew his dog back together can testify after an incident involving a drake.

You can probably be effective with O buckshot, but OO is safer, and bird shot would just be annoying [12 gauge, of course].

If you are really lucky, you can locate some delusional PETA person to take them away to their private property in another part of the state. The rules are not clear on interstate transport, but a sane state would make it a bigger offense than cocaine transportation.

My yard has mostly song birds, woodpeckers, nuthatches, native sparrows. I discourage the house sparrows from nesting by using nestboxes with small openings, but they still come to the feeders. I had an owl fly by tonight. And sometimes I’ll see a hawk. The winter migrants are showing up here this week from Canada. That means our robins should be arriving at Bryan’s place soon! Just don’t let them eat the berries. 😆

I’d never heard of a muscovy duck. And after looking it up … I don’t think I’d want to meet one.
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The rhetoric is comic and their signs are absurd because they are the results of decisions made by others, filtered, and then stamped on the minds of the followers with no logical process involved.

Some are naturally herd creatures and don’t think they can exist outside of the herd. They are offended by people acting independently. They seek protection in the herd, because they are afraid of the world. All change is bad, anything different is bad, everything must remain the same or we will all die. Rather sad, really. If they weren’t such a murderous bunch of cretins you could feel bad for them. The mob doesn’t tolerate the other.

The problem with real progressives is they aren’t buying the propaganda. They have developed spin/agitprop/bullshit detectors, and they aren’t going to accept the party line. They know what they want and expect, and aren’t going to be swayed by appeals for “party unity”.

The Dems can either produce or go into exile. They received everything that was needed in 2008 to actually produce results, and if they don’t, what’s the point in working for their re-election?

Whatever I sleep in, you may be sure it’s warm, especially in the summer, when Stella insists on wasting, um, using electricity to create icy conditions indoors. T-shirt and jogging shorts are my typical garb for sleeping or blogging. If I own any actual pajamas, they are more than four decades old and have been stored in a box all that time.

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I must say that I for one are truly happy and proud to know so many who don’t fit in the chicken-shit morons *pigeon holes*. Then again, even if I wanted to fit in one, I’d have to shed a lot of kg’s first! 😉 😆

Ladymin keeps hinting for me to ship her some of the birds we have that she saw here. 😉 We have really pretty birds here. Very noisy and mostly cheeky to us humans, but pretty. LadyMin got laughed and yelled at by some Rosella’s in our almond tree when she visited a few years ago. And almost attacked by huge blackbirds at lunch who wanted her lunch! (I think she took some pic’s) 😆 The birds here are cautious, but not very afraid of us. 🙂

People who like to put groups of others into little boxes show a distinct lack of intelligence, experience and are purely lazy. Sometimes, we can generalize to a degree, but there are *always* exceptions. And it’s those exceptions that will cause you much pain and anguish when ignorant fools build little boxes to put them all in. 😉

The only generalization (pigeon hole to stay with the vernacular) that, from all I have seen, can be accurately applied for the most part, is that in the USA, the majority of GOP-loving wingnuts are cowardly, unintelligent, bigoted, racist and amazingly noisy and stupid. (I could add a lot more, but that will serve to make the point). 🙂 They may as well be clones (and who knows… Maybe they *are* the result of some hideous experiment gone wrong (or possibly, gone right)! Wouldn’t surprise me a bit! 😉

No one who lives or works in a city likes the feathered rats, AKA pigeons, and she is selective in the birds she encourages.

People who think they love all birds have never encountered a Muscovy duck.

OT? Around here? Never happen in an environment as tightly controlled as this. 😉