Complex I live in has a community pool not far from one of the community fishing ponds. The locals feed the ducks, ducks don't migrate, locals go awe when they hatch out a brood. The city closed the golf course behind our community, coyotes, foxes, skunks and coons took over because it has plenty of water and the ducks the locals feed go there to hang out and get away from the locals. So this year a hen decided that the gated community pool was a safe place to raise her clutch. Locals were all awe until one of the local's heathen kid decided to harass mama and offspring, she probably scared him more than hurt him, but the idiot fell over a lounge chair and broke his arm. Local wants Daisy, Huey, Duey and Luey euthanized because they were doing their thing being wild creatures. I told Heathen local's mom that the kid was in the wrong and he should be punished for harassing wildlife, she argued with me and animal control. I planted the seed that wild game was under the jurisdiction of TPWD, I knew one of the local game wardens and texted him to expect a call. Well, her dumb butt called game warden and tried to reason with him and get the ducks euthanized, instead he wrote her a ticket for wildlife harassment and had the community pool closed down until mama decided to vacate or the youngsters could fly. The pool closure ticked off the parents that use it as a babysitter or for quiet time who in turn harassed Heathen's mama.
I was secretly going to the community pool and putting out corn and meal worms for them until they could fly or she decided to go back to the community pond. She might have stayed an extra week or two
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!! I really don't know what the solution can be that is effective.
