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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just don't feed wild animals

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

would a cat count as a wild animal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would argue that cats aren’t exactly domesticated. More like tamed perhaps.

[–] The_Eminent_Bon 1 points 1 year ago

What about feeding a wild thang

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep seeing this but as far as I can tell the only study on the subject seems to show that it has no effect on their normal grazing patterns and that both domesticated and wild ducks heavily fed bread spend 90% of their time "naturally grazing"

https://absa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cor-Vol-35-Pg101_106-Ducks.pdf

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically just duck junk food. https://www.uu.nl/en/background/what-to-feed-ducks-according-to-science Probably not an issue if they don't get too much, and still get plenty of good quality food in. I'd still rather give them something good for them, but I'm glad it's not as terrible as it seems.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally agree, it's just that there is a lot of pearl clutching when it comes to this topic and we need a more balanced approach.

A little bit of bread is not going to hurt them, but maybe there are some other options that are better. But if they get fed some bread, probably don't need to have an aggressive confrontation about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ducks can have a little bread.

[–] Idreamofcheesy 1 points 1 year ago

Right? Let us be the fun uncles and aunts that spoil our duck nibblings with junk food. We don't get to see them enough as it is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my defense, the only time I gave ducks bread was one time a gang of them surrounded me. One started biting/pecking my toe while the other was jumping up snatching at the sandwich I was eating. It was ducking extortion!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair, I'd probably throw the sandwich and run.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Idk I tried to feed ducks with some frozen peas, and those fuckers just spat them out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

as a treat, many ducks love blueberries! it shouldn't be their main food though. I had a duck that would go wild for blueberries.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You get little cans of peas that you can keep in your car in case of duck sightings

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love to explain my Emergency Peas to people who saw them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on the meme in a freezer you have in your car as it seems it must be frozen peas otherwise they will fight you to death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I should explain, due to my experience in this matter. Frozen peas are better, simply because they float. Canned peas sink, so you can only throw a few at a time

That said, I've seen what I am sure was a duck getting brain-freeze from the frozen ones. Can't be sure but I didn't imagine the stinkeye

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 points 1 year ago

All we are saying, is give peas a chance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what if I feed them human flesh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just be careful; once they get a taste for man, that's all they'll want from then on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the reason they say not to feed ducks bread was because they would get used it and flock to city centers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mainly they flock to bakeries. Once they've tried the artesianal stuff they come up with all kinds of crazy hijinks to get it. It's really a nuisance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Ok that’s seven loaves of sourdough- Wait. I’m gonna need to see some ID.”
(Reasonable quacking sounds)
“Dang it. It’s ducks in a trench coat again. Third time today.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No bullshit, the local crows know when I'm baking sourdough now. They smell it, I guess, and they know that I'm a soft touch. I usually do little batches of "discard" pancakes, and share a few with them.

They have, however, decided that they will only visit the side yard because of our chicken. She rules the back yard, and they won't fuck with her. So there's this solid mass of iridescent black on that patch, just cawing and waiting until I open the damn window.

I like crows lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now teach them to bring you money for your bread

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a few years, I had a crow friend who liked to perch in the trees across the street. I would yell hello, and they would caw back. They were great, I always have them my food scraps. Stopped coming one day, and I really miss them. I hope they just found greener pastures somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, crows are survivors. If they moved away, it's because something better drew them. They don't abandon a solid resource without a damn good reason.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I find it funny that my local family of crows will gang up on and harass the living shit out of any hawks that dare to show up in the neighborhood, but a single bluejay (like a third their size) will chase the whole family off in no time. Bluejays are some tough motherfuckers.

I love crows and I feed peanuts to my local family, but they're still extremely skeptical of me after more than a year and won't touch the peanuts until I go back into the house. I keep reading that they give gifts to humans they like but they haven't left shit for me - except one time when one of them puked up whatever he had just eaten so he had more room for the peanuts.

I also make sourdough. Maybe I should try giving them some of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's practically an epidemic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

(Reasonable quacking sounds)

thanks for the good chuckle. 😁

[–] BanjoShepard 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was always under the impression that ducks liked to eat at Subway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In most countries you're not allowed to call Subway cake "bread" so that's ok

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's just because they eat for free at Subway.

[–] afox 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have signs saying the same all around our local park. It seems to stop no one :(