06-04-2004, 09:45 PM
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Are squirrels OT?
In article o.com,
says...
Nothing wrong with helping wildlife. You feed your fat face dont you?
the problem is that we are taking all the countryside over, where else
is the wildlife to go?
I feed my own fat face (was it really necessary to make your comment
sound so aggressive?), but it gets little help from squirrels. But
apart from the issues of justice I believe it is healthier for wildlife
to forage for natural food rather than eat the selection of foods humans
happen to have decided they'd like to distribute.
For example, a major source of food for everything from foxes to birds
in this area is sliced white bread that a helpful person throws round a
patch of grass near the supermarket every day.
During the most recent cold snap when the wildlife organisations
broadcast requests for us to put out food, I carefully obtained the
recommended feedstuffs for the species I know we have round here, only
to have them left rotting as all the birds, including the supposed
carnivors and insectivors, went for the white bread a neighbour threw
out.
They're still gathering bread now, and I can only hope they're not
feeding their chicks with it.
Animals are just like us, they prefer unhealthy snacks to a balanced
diet; but is it helpful to them or to us to encourage that?
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