Wildlife flock to backyards for food from people

Phys.org ^ | 10-26-20 | Laura Oleniacz

[SJackson]

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If you feed them they will come.

[blueunicorn6]

They’re making people into food!

Arrrrrrrrgh!!!

[Rurudyne]

“Please don’t feed the homeless.”

[17th Miss Regt]

"On one hand many people enjoy having wildlife around and they can help support a healthy local ecosystem; however, they could cause conflict with people."

True dat. When I used to party with my friends in the back yard, occasionally a jackalope would come in and try to convince us to fight each other.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Tell me about it. The black bear population here in PA is exploding. In some areas people have been forced to spring for expensive bear-resistant trash containers.

[hinckley buzzard]

Any reasonable suburbanite could have told them this. Bambi-lovers feed corn on the cob to deer, who also eat landscaping shrubbery and flowers, enraging neighbors btw. . Squirrels feast on nuts and fruit from trees, dig bulbs planted in gardens, and eat vegetables and berries. Rats gather to eat bird feed which has fallen from bird feeders. Coyotes come to the city to eat rats and mice, runaway cats and probably garbage. Far from “destroying habitat,” the burbs are a lush smorgasbord for wildlife.

[wildcard_redneck]

Here in Arizona homeowners plant citrus trees and then never pick the fruits and then they get roof rats. Same goes for canary island date palms.

[shelterguy]

I’m just west of Minneapolistan. I can see it from my porch.
There is gobs of wildlife around here everyday.

[dsc]

“The black bear population here in PA is exploding. In some areas people have been forced to spring for expensive bear-resistant trash containers.”

I suppose the leftwads would lose their minds if you turned the bear into meat, jewelry, and a nice robe.

[umgud]

Same goes for the homeless.

[17th Miss Regt]

Send them to the Black Bear diner. The food there will quickly give them heart attacks (1700 calorie breakfasts and the like) and then the bear problem is solved.

[bobby.223]

My ‘back yard’ is the Mountains and critters abound up here. Big ones, little ones, crawling ones, slithering ones, and everything in between. I’m the ‘24 hour all you can eat’ go to place for ‘em in winter. When the deer are here and the wild turkeys cruise thru at the same time, their battles are a flat out riot! The turkeys usually run the deer out! Fun to watch!

[SgtHooper]

I have a pet wild 1-ton bull buffalo named Bill who I hand feed, and of course, my pet 1000 pound polar bear named Louis who roams my house. :-)

[dakine]

“BIGFOOT Chicken Fried Steak & Eggs* (2580 cals.)

10 oz of tender beef, breaded & fried golden brown, then smothered in country gravy and served with 3 eggs & 2 housemade biscuits.”

Does it come with donuts or pastries?

[tubebender]

I had a fence company built me this bird feeding station. The uprights are driven 30" into the soil and covered with HD chain-link fencing. There has been evidence of bears climbing on it but they have never breached it. This is in the Eureka Ca city limits

[17th Miss Regt]

Does it come with donuts or pastries?

They are extra. But the the salt shakers at the table have very large holes.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Stop turning these animals into Democrats.

[17th Miss Regt]

Does it come with donuts or pastries?

They are extra. But the the salt shakers at the table have very large holes.

[EinNYC]

I’ve seen several white tail deer under my window in my suburban Baltimore apartment. There are no large woods near me either. This one buck was munching on the yew hedge here.