Posted on 07/30/2007 4:58:19 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Hollywood Pigeons Being Put On The Pill
Officials Try To Control Population
POSTED: 7:39 am EDT July 30, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- Pigeons living in tinsel town are going on the pill.
Hollywood residents believe its a humane way to reduce the pigeon population and the messes the birds make.
Community leaders plan to announce the pilot program Monday at a news conference. Laura Dodson, the president of the Argyle Civic Association said the "poop problem" has become unmanageable and this could be the answer.
Over the next few months a birth control product called OvoControl P, which interferes with egg development, will be placed in bird food in new rooftop feeders.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other animal rights groups approve of the measure.
About 5,000 pigeons call the Hollywood area home.
Buckshot.
Drugging these birds without their knowledge? Interfering with their reproductive rights? I won’t stand for this. Call the ACLU today!!
The article isn't quite clear... is the P for poop, problem, pigeon, pill, or population?
In the early 1990’s the city of Boston put nesting boxes for peregrine falcons on the roof tops of some office buildings. It was interesting watching the falcons dive bomb unsuspecting pigeons.
Or PETA...
Is there a "P2" version for Palestinians?
Same solution I'd like to use on those danged crows that have been showing up lately.
You just know some idiot will eat the stuff and sue Hollyweird.
“Mustn’t fool with Mother Nature”
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