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Unfortunately, there's more than just bird flu to be worried about. There are over 60 other diseases that birds and their droppings can carry. The problem is especially worrisome in residential areas, as many of them are airborne and can be transferred to humans just by being around droppings.

 

 

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Time to bring in more cats, bird traps, and pellet & bb gun sharpshooters. Tear the nests down if you find them in your trees. I've heard too, that in some cases the government will poison pesky birds for you.

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Originally Posted by Bestworking:

Time to bring in more cats, bird traps, and pellet & bb gun sharpshooters. Tear the nests down if you find them in your trees. I've heard too, that in some cases the government will poison pesky birds for you.

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You could always put several birds in a bag, weight it down, & throw'em in the river. One bag would probably hold 5 of the little critters.

Originally Posted by dilligaff:

Be very carful what shoot at or attempt to trap, some of them are protected by both U.S. and State laws. You could end up sharing a room with "bubba".

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Not the least bit worried. What I do in my own backyard is my business. When they're sitting on my deck rail ****ing down the side of it onto my deck, they aren't protected by anything.

 Thanks for posting that useful information on birds that carry diseases harmful to humans.

 

All of the disease-carrying birds that are named in that material you posted (pigeons, house sparrows, starlings, and house finches) are INTRODUCED EXOTIC BIRDS.  They are NOT native birds; they were introduced from Europe.  They are not neo-tropical migratory birds that are subject to protection under law.  They indeed are a menace to public health and in the case of starlings, are a major menace to agricultural crops.  It would not bother me in the least for every house sparrow, starling, house finch and pigeon (technically "European rock dove") in this country to be wiped out.  

 

My case against feral and free-roaming house cats is that they destroy native birds and native small mammals that are a part of the ecosystems of this nation.  Just as exotic and harmful  invasive birds need to be controlled, so do non-native animals such as the house cat.

 

Thank you for providing information that supports my position on the destructive impacts of non-native animals! 

Originally Posted by dilligaff:

Be very carful what shoot at or attempt to trap, some of them are protected by both U.S. and State laws. You could end up sharing a room with "bubba".

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If anyone should share a room with bubba, it would be contendah. You have read his way of killing cats, right?

It's my yard, I can do what I want, when I want, to what I want. Mean ole me.......even snakes, they come in my yard, I scream.......hubby kills. 

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

You have no case. You just like to kill them and you use any half-baked excuse to do it. My pellet gun can't tell the difference in an "introduced" bird and a "native" bird. They're all nasty flying p o o p  machines.

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Rot!  I cleaned your plow on this issue and your ad hominem, non-substantive insulting reply is ample testimony to that.

Originally Posted by semiannualchick:
Originally Posted by dilligaff:

Be very carful what shoot at or attempt to trap, some of them are protected by both U.S. and State laws. You could end up sharing a room with "bubba".

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If anyone should share a room with bubba, it would be contendah. You have read his way of killing cats, right?

It's my yard, I can do what I want, when I want, to what I want. Mean ole me.......even snakes, they come in my yard, I scream.......hubby kills. 

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So with you snakes--presumably all snakes--are to be killed when they enter your domain? Are they killed "humanely"?  Are they killed indiscriminately, irrespective of whether they are beneficial (e.g. kingsnakes) or venomous?  

 

As to my methods of dispatching undesirable introduced exotic animals, my preferred weapon has always been the shotgun, a 12 gauge double-barreled Italian model, using number 6 shot. I call it "the shredder."  They never know what hit 'em! . 

Originally Posted by Contendah:
Originally Posted by Bestworking:

You have no case. You just like to kill them and you use any half-baked excuse to do it. My pellet gun can't tell the difference in an "introduced" bird and a "native" bird. They're all nasty flying p o o p  machines.

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Rot!  I cleaned your plow on this issue and your ad hominem, non-substantive insulting reply is ample testimony to that.

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Oh please. Do you really think you "cleaned ANYONE'S  plow" on this issue? ALL you have done is make a thread about how you love to kill cats, and to try to cast one little bit of light on yourself, which it didn't, you gave some half-***** little spiel on how they kill birds.  Ho hum, cats kill birds. Who'd have thunk it! I WISH the ferals around here would kill even more of them. I can't remember very many times they've caught and killed a bird. Maybe if the entire neighborhood would stop feeding them so well they might be inclined to do just that.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Originally Posted by Contendah:
Originally Posted by Bestworking:

You have no case. You just like to kill them and you use any half-baked excuse to do it. My pellet gun can't tell the difference in an "introduced" bird and a "native" bird. They're all nasty flying p o o p  machines.

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Rot!  I cleaned your plow on this issue and your ad hominem, non-substantive insulting reply is ample testimony to that.

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Oh please. Do you really think you "cleaned ANYONE'S  plow" on this issue? ALL you have done is make a thread about how you love to kill cats, and to try to cast one little bit of light on yourself, which it didn't, you gave some half-***** little spiel on how they kill birds.  Ho hum, cats kill birds. Who'd have thunk it! I WISH the ferals around here would kill even more of them. I can't remember very many times they've caught and killed a bird. Maybe if the entire neighborhood would stop feeding them so well they might be inclined to do just that.

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You just didn't look closely enough at your plow to see how it glitters and gleams.

 

By the way, more than 30 of the human diseases transmitted by birds are transmitted by pigeons, an exotic invasive bird species:

 

"Feral pigeons (Columbia livia) are not harmless birds. Many potential infections of

humans silently exist in pigeons which are not apparent. They have the potential for
transmission of over 30 diseases to humans plus another ten to domestic animals."

 

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=icwdmbirdcontrol

 

You can "ho-hum" all you wish about cats killing birds.  The cold hard fact is that cats do kill many birds of desirable native species and they do so because irresponsible human beings allow them to roam free to do their murderous work.  Cats kill a fair proportion of the birds they kill without eating them, a tawdry business and wasteful as well.

 

A little chrome polish applied with a Brillo pad from time to time will keep that plow spotless and shiny.

You can "ho-hum" all you wish about cats killing birds.  The cold hard fact is that cats do kill many birds of desirable native species and they do so because irresponsible human beings allow them to roam free to do their murderous work.  Cats kill a fair proportion of the birds they kill without eating them, a tawdry business and wasteful as well.

 

A little chrome polish applied with a Brillo pad from time to time will keep that plow spotless and shiny.

 

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Cats kill birds, dogs kill birds, other birds kill birds, cars kill birds, people kill birds, all manner of things kill birds. WHO CARES?? And the day you "clean my plough" is the day I sell it. 

Originally Posted by ribbit:

Thanks for this article. Should we take a BB gun to the geese in our local parks? or just avoid walking near their ****, which is found mostly where we have to walk.

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You can't avoid walking near it. And as it says, it's airborne. We have Lake Rosemary not far from us, and the geese are always landing in our yard, fields, and even in the roads. Next time they're standing in the middle of the road I'm gonna drive right through them.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Originally Posted by dilligaff:

Be very carful what shoot at or attempt to trap, some of them are protected by both U.S. and State laws. You could end up sharing a room with "bubba".

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Not the least bit worried. What I do in my own backyard is my business. When they're sitting on my deck rail ****ing down the side of it onto my deck, they aren't protected by anything.

Sounds like the blood lust for killing things you accuse Contendah of. 

Originally Posted by Contendah:
So with you snakes--presumably all snakes--are to be killed when they enter your domain? Are they killed "humanely"?  Are they killed indiscriminately, irrespective of whether they are beneficial (e.g. kingsnakes) or venomous?  

 

 

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A snake is a snake, I don't care what kind it is. The only good snake is a dead snake.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

You can "ho-hum" all you wish about cats killing birds.  The cold hard fact is that cats do kill many birds of desirable native species and they do so because irresponsible human beings allow them to roam free to do their murderous work.  Cats kill a fair proportion of the birds they kill without eating them, a tawdry business and wasteful as well.

 

A little chrome polish applied with a Brillo pad from time to time will keep that plow spotless and shiny.

 

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Cats kill birds, dogs kill birds, other birds kill birds, cars kill birds, people kill birds, all manner of things kill birds. WHO CARES?? And the day you "clean my plough" is the day I sell it. 

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The Times Daily classified section is a good place to advertise your plow.

 

More on murderous felines:

 

by Susan Roney Drennan,
National Audubon Society

 

<<<At the most recent meeting of the National Audubon Society Board of Directors, the cat issue was addressed both as a policy matter and because some Audubon chapters have become involved in the issue in their local communities. After lengthy discussion, the Board voted to adopt a resolution regarding the cat issue. It took the following salient and science-based points into consideration before passing the resolution:

  • Feral and free-ranging cats kill millions of native birds and other small animals annually;
  • Birds constitute approximately 20%-30% of the prey of feral and free-ranging domestic cats;
  • The American Ornithologists' Union, American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc., and the Cooper Ornithological Society have concluded that feral, homeless, lost, abandoned, or free-ranging domestic cats are proven to have serious negative impacts on bird populations, and have contributed to the decline of many bird species. Worldwide, cats may have been involved in the extinction of more bird species than any other cause, except habitat destruction;
  • Feral cat colony management programs known by the acronym TTVNR (Trapped, Tested, Vaccinated, Neutered, Released) are not effective solutions to the problem. In fact, these cat colonies are usually fed by very well-meaning cat welfare groups. The unnatural colonies form around food sources and grow to the limits of the food supply. Feeding these strays does not prevent them from hunting; it only maintains high densities of cats that dramatically increase predation on and competition with native wildlife populations;
  • Free-roaming cats are likely to come in contact with rabid wild animals and thus spread the disease to people. They pose a risk to the general public through transmission of other diseases like toxoplasmosis, feline leukemia, distemper, and roundworm.>>>

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