Birds... I fucking hate them

[Ohio Joe]

I never gave them much thought before but right now, I'm living with my brother here in Denver and he has two of them. They never shut the fuck up... They shit all over the place... They are the worst fucking pets anyone could ever decide to get... Birds... I fucking hate them.

[UTUSN]

1. O.K., I won't go that far, but sort of understand

From childhood through a few decades, all I heard was how birds are lovely and symbolize sprituality, the Holy Ghost (whatever that was), and all. And flying around and singing and nesting they *do* look beautiful and birdbaths look quaint.

But a period when I first had multiple (THREE, don't think "animal hoarding"!1) OUTSIDE dogs, the birds came calling at the dogs' water dish. At first this seemed fine and DISNEYish. If they only drank and flew off, but NOoooo: They bathed, dropped feathers, pooped, washed their food and left dross in it. Sometimes I was changing the water up to five times per day.

Plus, I'm blessed to have the power lines on my side of the street, like, where I sometimes park, and sometimes the vehicle gets DRENCHED with poop splatters.

As for that wire-perching/pooping, there IS a solution. I go on these research, problem-solving binges, and back when, the problem was about the perching pooping. Through a session net surfing I ended up with the State wildlife office and discovered that, since blasting NRA items at them is not an option, there is something like a "clapper": Take two 1x4" boards, each about a foot long; attach a hinge at one end of them. Go out sort of under the perchers on the wires and open up the boards full, then SHARPLY CLAP them together. Really fast, like in a day or two, they won't come back to these particular wires. From experience: EARPLUGS.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Personally, I love 'em

Broiled, fried, baked...oh wait. Never mind.

[alphafemale]

3. Plus...for something with a tiny little head they can bite the Shit outa You!

And you then you can't wring their sorry little bitey necks because someone would be mad.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I feel sorry for captive birds.

What a life. :(

[stuntcat]

6. me too

They should be outside not locked up where people who don't want to be around them will end up hating them :(

[rurallib]

5. I was chased for about 5 miles one day by a bird

ain't had much sympathy for them since.

[MilesColtrane]

7. You'd be angry and annoying too if you ruled the entire planet at one point, only to end up...

pwned by the hairless ancestors of tiny little tree shrews.

[frogmarch]

8. Aw, even singing parrots?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguXNL93fWg

Lolita sings Drowning Pool's "Bodies."

[kaiden]

9. Ohio Joe, I sent you a PM.