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To the well-meaning lady emptying at least four bags of lush Italian-style bread onto the ground by the former Spring Garden branch public library with pigeons swarming her: please DON’T encourage the damn things. They are feathered vermin. Even dry bread still makes great toast, bread pudding, croutons or grilled cheese sandwiches. I’m sure the local food bank would’ve welcomed your four loaves of slightly dry bread. —Feed People Not Vermin
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2016.
Yes, the less fortunate should only have stale bread. Fucktard.
Oh, fuck off. Feeding the birdies might be the only pleasure this lady has. Go suck on a stale crouton, you stunned twit. And just how much of YOUR bread is going to the foodbank?
You are a Mary Poppins hatin, anti pigeon feeding, bread loving, fun sucking, little old lady dissing, library hugging, passive aggressive person.
There is a lot of “vermin” spending their crack money at NoFrills on Wyse Rd and they are not pigeons and would love some free bread in order to have more crack money. “Oh fuck! those damn VLT’s stole my bread money again! Fuck that pigeon lady is wasting it”
And we should be able to feed the fucking Ducks in the Gardens too! Arghhh! Rant, rant, rant…
Pigeons are pretty cool – for feathered vermin. Lot more cuddlier than a wharf rat and makes a much better pillow.
My pet budgie asked me to pass along this on her behalf since her beak typing speed is a little slow.
There is a difference between feeding migratory birds and non-migratory (urban) birds. So, no, do not feed the ducks in the Gardens … but don’t begrudge the old folks who get a few moments of joy from feeding the pigeons and crows.
Urban birds do fulfill a useful purpose. They clean up food debris people leave behind in the downtown – food that would otherwise be left for rats. And we don’t want rats! … so we need a certain number of urban birds.
If you feel there are too many pigeons in an area, let the city know. I’m pretty sure they can put out some feed that has birth control in it to keep the population down.
Now, fill my water dish and scratch my head.
Betty Budgie
Stop feeding the pigeons
Betty dear, the ducks were fed for decades in the Gardens and nothing became of the situation until some crazed vegan hipster with a top knot started to cry and the City cowered…
There are rats galore where. In the restaurants on Quinpool even. This is a port city. Rats.
They give pigeons popcorn laced with a drug that sees them convulse and fall from rooftops (if they don’t OD first); there’s no birth control for birds (I can’t believe I have to write that).
^^^ Yes, there is. http://globalnews.ca/news/2718286/breakfas…
I stand corrected on the birth control!
Maybe she’s fattening them up? Apparently, before we ate chicken, we ate pigeons.
“feed that has birth control in it”
I think we found the solution to global warming…