While we were at the Lowe's shopping for faucet hoses and Christmas decorations, we saw several bird feeders and I picked one up because we have some of the cutest little birds flying around our house, including some gorgeous bright red cardinals and bluejays.
One morning a few weeks ago, Peter says, "Look out the window!"
There hung the bird feeder filled with birdseed.
"Hmmmm." I said. "Should you have put this out right now? I don't think there are any birds."
"Sure there are birds!"
Yah. Right.
Fast forward to yesterday when Rocky wouldn't come back into the house every time I let him out. Usually he starts to run for the door as soon as he hears me open it. Last night, I went out there and he was engrossed with a portion of the yard. I couldn't see what he was doing, but I was really surprised that when I dangled a carrot he still would not come back. I mean, he usually mows down anything in his way to get to his carrot.
This morning Peter discovered that the bird feeder that had remained filled with birdseed for the past few weeks was now hanging empty. Apparently, the bottom of the feeder fell out and all the seed tumbled all over our lawn. Crappy $5 bird feeder! Damn you!!
What Rocky had been doing all day yesterday was EATING THE BIRD SEED.
And today he has been farting and farting and coming up to us and nudging us to let him out. As soon as I let him back in the house, he starts to nudge us again to be let out. It's driving us totally bonkers!
These birdseed farts are the most heinous and noxious things ever created.
I said to Peter, "Do you think that he's put two and two together that the eating the birdseed is what caused the diarrhea?"
"Uhm," he said. "Maybe."
"Well, I hope he's learned his lesson!"
"Don't you mean, you hope that WE'VE learned the lesson?"
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I don't understand how the title correlates. Shouldn't it be more like, "Don't get a crappy bird feeder"? The winter months are the best time to put out a bird feeder because it will oftentimes be the only source of food for local birds, and you get to see migratory birds that are not in the neighborhood at other times of the year. Also it's easier to pick out birds from the foliage in the winter because, well, there is none :P
Hmmm. Maybe we got a crappy bird feeder because we didn't see one bird at it and it was full to the brim for weeks (I did have the suspicion that the holes may have been too small). I will definitely try it again with another feeder (since we still have a big bag of birdseed).
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