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Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove
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In article , David wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? In my neighborhood, people just drive their cars on the roads. And the stupid doves dont seem to move out of the way. SPLAT. SARCASM We should all just drive more, and get bigger trucks. or Put them on the endangered species lists and let yuppies kill them /SARCASM P.S. I have no idea how to answer your question, a discussion about how dumb turtle doves are takes place in our house once a week. |
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Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? You might get some advice on rec.birds. 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson ************************************************* http://www.eckhardt.net/suzanne/ ************************************************* Due to the receipt of unmanagable amounts of SPAM, I have had to add an extra letter to my e-mail address. Remove the "x" to contact me directly. |
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Cut down your trees?
"David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? |
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"David" wrote in
: Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? One word: cats! |
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"David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? Is there a reason you want to do this? |
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"cat daddy" wrote in message
... "David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? Is there a reason you want to do this? Poop. Cooing. I actually like song birds, but the repetitive cooing that doves makes drives me crazy. I picture those little breeding flying rats out there calling to their disease carrying mates to come and perpetuate their dirty little species. I don't mind them so much in the wild but around my house is another issue. Doves create unwanted noise pollution, their droppings are acidic and bad for lawn / gardens, and they're known to carry disease. |
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"Hope Munro Smith" wrote in message
. 83... "David" wrote in : Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? One word: cats! The only other animal I dislike more than doves ;0) |
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On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:00:43 -0500, "David" wrote:
Poop. Cooing. I actually like song birds, but the repetitive cooing that doves makes drives me crazy. I picture those little breeding flying rats out there calling to their disease carrying mates to come and perpetuate their dirty little species. I don't mind them so much in the wild but around my house is another issue. Doves create unwanted noise pollution, their droppings are acidic and bad for lawn / gardens, and they're known to carry disease. You could always move to a boat on the ocean. That way nothing will bother you. |
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LOVE CATS!! But we have a neighborhood full of both cats and white winged
doves, even my retriever tries for the doves with no luck -- now there is a new flock of baby doves -- they are the rascals eating my tomatoes!! Yes, I have tried the "AOL" disks without luck, netting (they get through and after reading G a e X a v i e r's post I won't do that again anyway), red "Christmas" balls, scare crow, nylon hose over each tomatoes (worked for awhile then they just started pecking through), etc -- all without luck. Someone in this newsgroup several years ago posted a solution that does seem to help -- they said it was because the birds were hungry/thirsty and if there was a bird bath and alternate food available they would go for them and leave the tomatoes alone. So I have a bird bath and feeder. I quit feeding this spring because it is so expensive and I am among the Austinites looking for work. But something was getting every tomatoes just as it was coming ripe. I started buying bird seed again and have gotten 5 tomatoes now . . . yeah a couple are still getting pecked but at least I am getting some now too. -- Marta (if you email me directly you need to remove the X ) |
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"animaux" wrote in message
... On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:00:43 -0500, "David" wrote: Poop. Cooing. I actually like song birds, but the repetitive cooing that doves makes drives me crazy. I picture those little breeding flying rats out there calling to their disease carrying mates to come and perpetuate their dirty little species. I don't mind them so much in the wild but around my house is another issue. Doves create unwanted noise pollution, their droppings are acidic and bad for lawn / gardens, and they're known to carry disease. You could always move to a boat on the ocean. That way nothing will bother you. That was constructive. |
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On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:10:10 -0500, "David" wrote:
That was constructive. It was a pretty stupid question. Calling doves which mate for life flying rats is far more offensive than anything I could have said about that post. |
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There is a woman named Cheryl who works at Wildlife Rescue on Fridays (at
least she is doing so now). She is their bird expert, and she might have some ideas. The number is 472-WILD and the phone is currently manned weekdays 9 am - 3 pm. You can see more info at http://www.volunteersolutions.org/au...e_173258.html. However, I believe that if the doves like your property, even if you kill or remove the current birds, more will come. It might be worth trying to think through what is attracting them, and then think about how to make the area less attractive. Some people feel that cardboard images of owls and other birds of prey discourage birds like doves. I don't know whether this works or not. Good luck. "David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? |
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just be thankful that you don't have grackels moving into your
neighborhood...I would take doves over them anytime! Grackels are trying to move into our area but the doves are fighting back from what I can see... I hate grackels with a passion...if you discover a way to rid yourself of the doves please share the method cos I'd love to blast these grackels from the face of the earth! "Carol Adams" wrote in message . .. There is a woman named Cheryl who works at Wildlife Rescue on Fridays (at least she is doing so now). She is their bird expert, and she might have some ideas. The number is 472-WILD and the phone is currently manned weekdays 9 am - 3 pm. You can see more info at http://www.volunteersolutions.org/au...e_173258.html. However, I believe that if the doves like your property, even if you kill or remove the current birds, more will come. It might be worth trying to think through what is attracting them, and then think about how to make the area less attractive. Some people feel that cardboard images of owls and other birds of prey discourage birds like doves. I don't know whether this works or not. Good luck. "David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? |
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John suggested using moth balls to get rid of armadillos, and the rodent
control officer in Corpus Christi told us to use them to repel possums (which they did) and other attic-infesting pests. Why don't you make some mesh bags, fill them with moth balls, and hang them from the trees? Fairly cheap, easy, and it just might work. Nell S "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "David" wrote in message ... Anyone have any suggestions on legal ways to get rid of or limit dove populations? Is there a reason you want to do this? |
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