So many cooks so many som tams,so here is mine

Adorable dog!!!! And the birds are a riot, and the food, well, it's just so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!! Fantastic thread!!!! Cheers! - Leah

I didn't mind birds in the past, actually I thought they were pretty. About the last year they have moved in on my deck. I wouldn't even mind and feed 'em. BUT who knew that birds could pass so much excrement, and it doesn't just wash off! I have tried blinking lights, motion sensors, calls, plastic owls, tin foil pans, streamers and spiked. Nothing moves these birds out they have set up housekeeping on my deck! If they would only just act like a dog and fly over to the neighbors and do their business, I'd put out corn and seed ...... but no, its all on the deck and their favorite spots are the handrails and all the lattice work!

These are just trash birds, not like cockatoos, but I guess that is all subjective to local.

BTW Moikel, I just found this thread it looks great man. Great for a hot summer meal, out on your deck.

Moikel said:

Not getting a lot of help keeping the softwood destroying birds of the deck.

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• moikel
• Jan 12, 2014

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Hilarious! The hound knows that the bird has a beak! 

Think of it as a moment of natures harmony!  LOL

Moikel said:

I would put up with bird crap ,but those Cockatoos tear stuff up ,cedar,pine, they just tear bits out of it with those big beaks. The reason the paint can is in the photo is I had to repair all the damage & repaint.

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When I raised dogs I learned that some things are just inherit in a critter. Like rats they have to wear their teeth down constantly, some dogs feel the need to pull and pull I assume it reverts back to the wild tendency you get meat off a corpse.

I would put out and tie a tire intertube from a tree, tease the dog with it and they would spend hours a day happily exercising themselves pulling against the intertube. until they got over that need anyway.

Maybe the cockatoo's need to sharpen their beaks, you ever try putting out some old tires for them to chew on? Just a thought and probably wouldn't work. <shrugs>