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throwing food into your back garden

  • 21-04-2014 07:58PM
    #1
    Bowlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    two different neighbours throw gone off bread and (now)chinese prawn crackers in to the communal back garden. I'm sure the crows eat it at some stage or the poor old other neighbour cleans it up when we are all out during the day.
    Is this normal behaviour on their part?
    would the not put in the pin or stick up an auld bird feeder or what not


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  • #2
    wazky
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    More then likely will start to attract rats more than birds.


  • #3
    Bowlardo
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    wazky wrote: »
    More then likely will start to attract rats more than birds.
    that's what i was thinking too. would you in agreement that it is bad form to be doing it?


  • #4
    Ted_YNWA
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    Guaranteed to attract rats.


  • #5
    humberklog
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    WTF are cows doing in your backgarden?


  • #6
    greasepalm
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    plenty of birds around me from robin to seagulls and even seen a red squirrel enjoying a bit of rhubarb crumble,not seen the foxes for a while maybe roadkill got there first.


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  • #7
    ScumLord
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    wazky wrote: »
    More then likely will start to attract rats more than birds.
    If it's a regular event happening around the same time every day the crows will get there first. When I throw food out the back of my place it rarely takes the crows more than 5 minutes to notice it. They have the whole town cased out for food.


  • #8
    Ari Faint Wimp
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    My grandparents leave stuff out for the foxes


  • #9
    Donkey Oaty
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    greasepalm wrote: »
    even seen a red squirrel

    a/s/l?


  • #10
    The Backwards Man
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    Have you nothing better to do, doo, dooo than look out your back door?

    /CCR


  • #11
    Sulla Felix
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    I throw some stuff out the back. Hard bread and cheese mainly.


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  • #12
    Spring Onion
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    I always say no to prawn crackers...


  • #13
    kowloon
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    It'll attract rats in the bin too. Rats don't like coming out into the open and unless they're in the habit of roaming freely, they're cautious little beasties. They don't like changes in their environment, they're suspicious of new things. They tend to move about at the edges of walls and under cover. If rats are eating food being thrown out to them day after day you'll see the tracks.
    If it's just a small amount being thrown out in the middle of the garden early in the day I wouldn't worry too much, but look for the tracks and point them out to the neighbour. Maybe they can put in a bid table with a squirrel guard


  • #14
    Banjo String
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    Will attract mice and rats after a period of time. Even bird feeders do.


  • #15
    lertsnim
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    wazky wrote: »
    More then likely will start to attract rats more than birds.

    More than likely that there's rats there regardless of what food you start throwing out.


  • #16
    Unknown Soldier
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    Will attract mice and rats after a period of time. Even bird feeders do.

    Mice or rats. They are not found together.

    Most likely rats.


  • #17
    Spring Onion
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    kowloon wrote: »
    It'll attract rats in the bin too. Rats don't like coming out into the open and unless they're in the habit of roaming freely, they're cautious little beasties. They don't like changes in their environment, they're suspicious of new things. They tend to move about at the edges of walls and under cover. If rats are eating food being thrown out to them day after day you'll see the tracks.
    If it's just a small amount being thrown out in the middle of the garden early in the day I wouldn't worry too much, but look for the tracks and point them out to the neighbour. Maybe they can put in a bid table with a squirrel guard

    Rats will not leave tracks in grass (unless they are those super rats found recently). Maybe in sand or dust but not grass.


  • #18
    Banjo String
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    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Mice or rats. They are not found together.
    .

    I call bollox on this.

    I seen them in abundance in whackers family pet store on Saturday.


  • #19
    seamus
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    Foxes mainly I think people do this for. I have yet to hear of anyone suffering a rat infestation because they throw leftover food out for the foxes.

    However the logic behind it is that a well-fed fox is less likely to rummage through your bins and/or attack birds or cats.


  • #20
    Spring Onion
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    I once opened my compost bin to find a big rat at the top staring at me. He burrowed his way up from the bottom and loved the heat and vegetable scraps. So I set two big rat trap and caught 1 magpie, 1 crow, 1 large mouse and finally 2 rats.

    Lesson: Put chicken wire at the bottom of your compost bin.


  • #21
    Unknown Soldier
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    I call bollox on this.

    I seen them in abundance in whackers family pet store on Saturday.

    In the wild so....


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  • #22
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Throwing food in your back garden is dumping and disgusting.


  • #23
    corner of hells
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Throwing food in your back garden is dumping and disgusting.

    How bout I just put it down gently ?


  • #24
    kowloon
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    Spring Onion wrote: »
    Rats will not leave tracks in grass (unless they are those super rats found recently). Maybe in sand or dust but not grass.

    They will if they're going back and forward to the same pile of scraps over and over again.



    http://www.orkin.com/rodents/rats/rat-infestation/


  • #25
    Archeron
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    I left my bamboo table and chairs out in the garden and I'm now infested with panda bears. Be careful what you chuck on your lawn.


  • #26
    galwayrush
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    My next door neighbour does, including wrappers.


  • #27
    dodderangler
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    My grandparents leave stuff out for the foxes

    They really shouldn't.
    Humans should not be associated with feeding foxes.


  • #28
    Snake
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    Feeding bread to birds is bad for them, anyway.


  • #29
    Ari Faint Wimp
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    They really shouldn't.
    Humans should not be associated with feeding foxes.

    Why
    they're lovely


  • #30
    Sulla Felix
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Why
    they're lovely
    Because they eat the faces of the baaabbbiiiieeeeesss. :o


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  • #31
    suicide_circus
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    Parents have thrown old bread etc for the birds into the back garden for 30 odd years, not a single rodent has ever materialised.


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