Our idiotic old Guiseppi neighbor has acquired about 8 white pigeons in the last 6 or so months. God knows why; he already has about 12 different sheds and other weird and wonderful things in the garden to keep him amused.
Cutesy animal, right?
Wrong.
Gotta be the second worst idea for a pet I've ever seen.
They have recently decided that our roof, our decks, our ballustrades and pool area are a much better place to hang out, leaving their previous digested and processed meals all over the place, and even on towels hanging over chairs after a swim.
Have tried spraying them with the hose numerous times but they are back in 15 mins.
I looked into the whole fake owl thing - did some research and found they are a waste of time apparently.
CD's on a length of string sound like the most promising so far, but that's gunna look like some loony (don't comment on that one, thankyou) owns the house with strings of flying saucers all around the place..
Any suggestions and/or experience with getting rid of them (other than the obvious - which I will take glee in, and use my tennis racket for the job).
We have plans to rent out the house for holiday letting in Dec/Jan this year for 3 weeks, so don't want our guests putting up with that cr@p (excuse the pun).
Have approached the old boy and instructed him to deal with his problem, before I did.
He wasn't thrilled at that.
Cutesy animal, right?
Wrong.
Gotta be the second worst idea for a pet I've ever seen.
They have recently decided that our roof, our decks, our ballustrades and pool area are a much better place to hang out, leaving their previous digested and processed meals all over the place, and even on towels hanging over chairs after a swim.
Have tried spraying them with the hose numerous times but they are back in 15 mins.
I looked into the whole fake owl thing - did some research and found they are a waste of time apparently.
CD's on a length of string sound like the most promising so far, but that's gunna look like some loony (don't comment on that one, thankyou) owns the house with strings of flying saucers all around the place..
Any suggestions and/or experience with getting rid of them (other than the obvious - which I will take glee in, and use my tennis racket for the job).
We have plans to rent out the house for holiday letting in Dec/Jan this year for 3 weeks, so don't want our guests putting up with that cr@p (excuse the pun).
Have approached the old boy and instructed him to deal with his problem, before I did.
He wasn't thrilled at that.