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throwing food into your back garden

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  • #32
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Why
    they're lovely

    Humans should be seen as something for them to fear and avoid.
    They'll start becoming braver.
    This was the whole story behind children being attacked by foxes. I know it's more likely to be struck by lightening but the logic seems sound. Humans will be associated with food and the fear disappears.
    That's the logic anyway


  • #33
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Because they eat the faces of the baaabbbiiiieeeeesss. :o

    So do I. I still associate with humans. Stop pointless discrimination.


  • #34
    Snake
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Humans should be seen as something for them to fear and avoid.
    They'll start becoming braver.
    This was the whole story behind children being attacked by foxes. I know it's more likely to be struck by lightening but the logic seems sound. Humans will be associated with food and the fear disappears.
    That's the logic anyway

    Sure that's only bollox. I had a cat here for months, I fed him everyday and he was still afraid of me, if they're not human friendly they're not going to start because food suddenly appears.


  • #35
    Smidge
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    Spring Onion wrote: »
    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.

    Are you mixing foods in your composter?
    Because if you put only raw foods in your composter it shouldn't attract rodents.
    I put all of my cooked food waste out for the birds(always first thing in the morning)and within 3 minutes the birds have it cleared.
    Although today they did pay me back by pooping on my freshly car washed car :(


  • #36
    greasepalm
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    van da loo hehehe


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  • #37
    fussyonion
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    I throw scraps out to the birds and the rest goes in the brown bin.
    In fact, since I've been doing it, I don't even use my black wheelie bin anymore..
    I would only throw food out the back in the daytime..never at night.
    Food is gobbled by birds in about ten minutes.

    Don't see an issue with it. My Dad's been feeding the birds of his local neighbourhood for 40+ years................
    .......................and the feathered variety too BADUM CHA.

    *gets coat*


  • #38
    Matt_Trakker
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    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.

    Are you living in an Alfred Hitchcook screenplay?


  • #39
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    They really shouldn't.
    Humans should not be associated with feeding foxes.

    I disagree. People feed birds, hedgehogs etc so why not foxes? The bias against foxes in some quarters is just incredible. I feed foxes when they are about the garden. They may only come to the garden a few times a year but I like to give all our wildlife a helping hand when we are destroying so much of the natural environment on them.


  • #40
    ScumLord
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    They really shouldn't.
    Humans should not be associated with feeding foxes.
    If humans had said that about stray wolves 50,00 years ago we wouldn't have dogs. Give it a few more thousand years and we'll have a breed of semi domesticated foxes that are something like cats in behaviour.
    Matt_Trakker wrote: »
    Are you living in an Alfred Hitchcook screenplay?
    No, there's just a big murder of crows living in my town. Most small towns have a resident murder of crows.


  • #41
    Sulla Felix
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    If humans had said that about stray wolves 50,00 years ago we wouldn't have dogs. Give it a few more thousand years and we'll have a breed of semi domesticated foxes that are something like cats in behaviour.

    No, there's just a big murder of crows living in my town. Most small towns have a resident murder of crows.
    Already well under way. The russkies have been at it for decades.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox


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  • #42
    wazky
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    If humans had said that about stray wolves 50,00 years ago we wouldn't have dogs. Give it a few more thousand years and we'll have a breed of semi domesticated foxes that are something like cats in behaviour.

    Because that's what we need, more damn cats.


  • #43
    seamus
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    If humans had said that about stray wolves 50,00 years ago we wouldn't have dogs. Give it a few more thousand years and we'll have a breed of semi domesticated foxes that are something like cats in behaviour.
    That's a fair point. Feeding urban foxes likely does a good job of keeping the rat population under control.

    Foxes are for the most part considered desirable wildlife in urban areas because they're largely non-intrusive and don't spread diseases to humans. This is distinct from rural areas where they're considered vermin when you have livestock involved.


  • #44
    jimgoose
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    Anyone who throws waste food into the garden like that needs to be tied up with piano wire and forcibly relocated to one of the less salubrious corners of Calcutta for six months. Assuming they survive, that'll learn 'em.


  • #45
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    I think our local Vixen has trained *us*, we've been friendzoned good and proper. You can set your watch to a fox.

    Blackbirds love cheese rind, they go manic. Not big on putting out bread for the birds though. Not white bread anyway.


  • #46
    steveone
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    I throw scrap veg on the grass, crumbs on the patio and odds n ends up on the shed. we have a loyal following of sparrows and the resident robins, rats and mice wouldnt get a look in.


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