I have a few feeders in my yard. My neighbors yard backs up to mine. There is a fence inbetween. She has 2 dogs in an inclosed area in her yard. She is telling me that because I feed the birds, her dogs are getting sick. They are getting some sort of parasite from the bird droppings (she won’t tell me the name of the parasite). She wants me to stop feeding the birds. I love feeding the birds and don’t want to stop. She has 2 large, bushy trees in her yard. A lot of birds get in her trees and apparently the poo all over her yard. I guess what I want to know is: Is this my fault? Would it make a difference if I stopped feeding the birds? Can anyone tell me the name of the parasite? She just came over and accused me of throwing peanut shells in her yard because her dogs pooed out some shells. I told her the squirrels probably left the shells. Is she crazy or should I stop? I will add that I have taken down 4 feeders and changed seed to one that some birds won’t eat.
The feeders are up in my yard. None of them hang over into her yard. The birds do poo in my yard. Her problem is that the birds fly from my feeders into her trees and then poo in her yard. My thought was that even if I didn’t feed the birds, wouldn’t there still be birds in her yard and in her trees. She can’t expect no birds in her yard, regardless of what I do. I don’t think she is lying, I just don’t know if this is all my fault or not.
The feeders are up in my yard. None of them hang over into her yard. The birds do poo in my yard. Her problem is that the birds fly from my feeders into her trees and then poo in her yard. My thought was that even if I didn’t feed the birds, wouldn’t there still be birds in her yard and in her trees. She can’t expect no birds in her yard, regardless of what I do. I don’t think she is lying, I just don’t know if this is all my fault or not.
I would continue to feed the birds.Birds will sit in trees and birds will poop.If the neighbor is worried,she should keep the bird poop raked up so the dogs can’t eat it.I have been feeding birds for over 35 years and have dogs,my neighbors have dogs,and none of our dogs have ever gotten sick,but they don’t eat bird droppings,either. Also,you should ask her to tell you the name of her veterinarian as you would like to know the name of the parasite.I think the woman just doesn’t like birds.
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Please stop feeding the birds. She’s not lying to you. Or, at least, move the feeders up next to your house and let the birds crap in your yard.
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continue to feed the birds, by my guess it is the squirrel poo that the dogs are getting sick from. I had a cocker spaniel that liked to roll in squirrel poo. even though she was always on leash whenever she was outside, she would still find some to roll in. She got a liver fluke or some kind of liver parasite from it. she then developed acute onset hepatitis. It took a lot of blood tests to find everything and several courses of antibiotics as well as forced feeding and forced water just for her to improve. If I would not have insisted that something was wrong with her then the vets might have missed it until it was too late. BUT it came from the squirrel poo and NOT from the birds. I was not feeding birds then, nor do I even have any trees in the front yard where we took the dogs. Your neighbor is jeopardizing her dog’s health by playing the blame game. She needs to run the squirrels away from her yard.
ETA: here is a link to a page about liver flukes (they are a parasite) it does say that dogs and squirrels as well as other domestic animals, and humans, can get liver flukes.
http://ucdnema.ucdavis.edu/imagemap/nemmap/ent156html/slides/Lab3b
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