What is the name of your state? CA
My parents live on a little more than an acre of land in a tiny little town about 45 minutes north of Sacramento on Interstate 80. The signs entering town used to say it was a bird sanctuary.
A neighbor bought a few pea****s a couple of years ago and has let them run wild ever since. Everyone knows he bought them but he has never admitted it and nobody can prove it.
Pea****s have the most annoying call you have ever heard, leave droppings on houses, cars, and porches, they land on cars and scratch the paint with their claws and have been known to peck at their reflection in shiny paint thus ruining the paintjob.
My Dad has started shooting them with his .357 magnum using snake loads. Snake loads are like shotgun shells, lots of little pellets that don’t go very far. Their house is just about smack dab in the middle of their property and there is pretty much no chance anyone could be hurt by him firing the gun. So far he has killed over 30 of them and there are still many more running around.
Last week he shot one of the males and a neighbor (not the one who initially bought them) who likes the birds called the police. A Sheriff went to the neighbor first and then came to talk to my Dad. The Sheriff agreed with my Dad that the birds are annoying and said that he could not think of any law that my Dad was breaking. Another neighbor of 25 years is a retired Placer County Sheriff and he shoots them too. He says there is no law against it.
I suggested to my Dad that he call Animal Control and Fish and Game and ask them to trap the birds and get rid of them. If they won’t, ask them who to call. I told him to document everything, the call, who he talked to, what they told him etc. because the next cop might not be so nice. I told him to take all of the actions that a prudent person would so that if the situation does get nasty, he can show a judge that he didn’t just run out with his gun. He tried other avenues to get rid of them and shooting them was his last option.
Is my Dad putting himself in danger of being arrested or sued by shooting these birds? They are not native to the area and are more annoying at night than a dog barking with their calls. Even my wife wants to kill these birds and she’s an animal lover. You cannot imagine how annoying their calls are at 3AM. I’m hoping that CDWJAVA can chime in on this as he is in the area but everyone is welcome to respond.
My parents live on a little more than an acre of land in a tiny little town about 45 minutes north of Sacramento on Interstate 80. The signs entering town used to say it was a bird sanctuary.
A neighbor bought a few pea****s a couple of years ago and has let them run wild ever since. Everyone knows he bought them but he has never admitted it and nobody can prove it.
Pea****s have the most annoying call you have ever heard, leave droppings on houses, cars, and porches, they land on cars and scratch the paint with their claws and have been known to peck at their reflection in shiny paint thus ruining the paintjob.
My Dad has started shooting them with his .357 magnum using snake loads. Snake loads are like shotgun shells, lots of little pellets that don’t go very far. Their house is just about smack dab in the middle of their property and there is pretty much no chance anyone could be hurt by him firing the gun. So far he has killed over 30 of them and there are still many more running around.
Last week he shot one of the males and a neighbor (not the one who initially bought them) who likes the birds called the police. A Sheriff went to the neighbor first and then came to talk to my Dad. The Sheriff agreed with my Dad that the birds are annoying and said that he could not think of any law that my Dad was breaking. Another neighbor of 25 years is a retired Placer County Sheriff and he shoots them too. He says there is no law against it.
I suggested to my Dad that he call Animal Control and Fish and Game and ask them to trap the birds and get rid of them. If they won’t, ask them who to call. I told him to document everything, the call, who he talked to, what they told him etc. because the next cop might not be so nice. I told him to take all of the actions that a prudent person would so that if the situation does get nasty, he can show a judge that he didn’t just run out with his gun. He tried other avenues to get rid of them and shooting them was his last option.
Is my Dad putting himself in danger of being arrested or sued by shooting these birds? They are not native to the area and are more annoying at night than a dog barking with their calls. Even my wife wants to kill these birds and she’s an animal lover. You cannot imagine how annoying their calls are at 3AM. I’m hoping that CDWJAVA can chime in on this as he is in the area but everyone is welcome to respond.
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