I guarantee that you will not see any peanut trees on my property.
61Peanut shrubbery?
10Ni!
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Not sure how that's facepalm... the dogs going wild constantly is a pain. It's not like it's the same person who had a child with a peanut allergy so how could they know? It's not like they were being thoughtless or rude.
57Asking some anonymous neighbor to remove their peanut tree was pretty funny.
But maybe more, blaming the barking dogs - complainer's own dogs - on a mysterious peanut feeder, as though squirrels wouldn't be running around the neighborhood, playing on the fences and trees anyway, is like the poster has never experienced squirrels before.
64Yeah… my neighbor has two rats (I mean small little ankle biting POS dogs) who bark anytime someone walks remotely near the backyard fence which is on a Main Street because he lives on a corner… or they sit by the front window which he leaves open and bark/whine all damn day while he’s gone…
I 100% sympathize with the neighbor complaining about the barking…
18Dogs hate very high pitched whistles that humans can’t hear. If you were to use one when they bark at you that might just train them not to.. File that under unethical LPTs
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Maybe - and hear me out - it's the dogs that are the problem?
"Can't control their prey drive" is a bad excuse. You control your dog or you don't deserve to have one. End of story. A dog barking endlessly is the responsibility of the owner to control or get rid of their damn dog.
It isn't hard to teach your dog not to be a nuisance. I've done it before. Blaming the dog because you failed to teach/control it is not correct, and simply shows that you do not have what it takes to be a dog owner.
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Everybody sucks here.
Get your dogs under control. If their barking hurts your ears, fucking train your dog.
Also, don't feed wildlife. Squirrels are a natural part of the ecosystem, but if you feed them peanuts, they don't go collect nuts and acorns and stash them. Stashing nuts and acorns spreads trees and grows forrests. Then you have too many squirrels and not enough food for all of them.
52The previous owners of our home fed the squirrels. For the next 3 years after moving in they were breaking into our house, ruined all of the screens on the windows, chewed holes through our trashcans, spread trash on our yard, attempted to break in our cars and chewed holes in our fenders. All because they weren't getting fed anymore.
Thousands of dollars in damage. Fuck squirrels.
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You shouldn't be feeding wild animals. Your HOA is correct and that person is a dick. You think that shit gets cleaned for free? Someone has to go out and clean up your shit.
26Peanut tree ... lol
22I mean the peanut shells in the garden is actually worrying if you have a kid with a peanut allergy right. If it's serious it could kill them just by touching it and then eating something with their hands.
20Someone definitely has a peanut tree in the neighborhood.
15It was Jimmy Carter's fuckin' peanut tree, he left it there as a token of spite for their neighborhood.
9Peanuts grow underground
3No they grow on supermarket shelves mate get it right
16I was honestly expecting zero whooshes.
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How about sort your fucking mutt out. A family of squirrels should go hungry and someone has to cut down a tree because your dog is like its owner.. a cunt
13someone has to cut down a tree
Especially a peanut tree! They're already so rare that most consider them to be a plant of myth.
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What the hell is a peanut tree?
13Obviously an existing plant in the universe of a person who had an average American school education.
2Imaginary, since peanuts grow underground like potatos.
0It's more of a vine, like spaghetti.
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I mean, you shouldn't feed wild animals, period.
11I dunno. I feed the birds and they seem to like it.
11Are you feeding them peanuts?
6And dogs like chocolate. Just because an animal likes something doesn't mean it's good for the animal.
2Maybe feed them less peanuts
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yikes! i bet this dog "only wants to smell you"
9It would be funny if someone is intentionally feeding the squirrels peanuts knowing about the dogs barking just to spite someone
4My neighbor puts corn out for squirrels every year and now our backyard has corn come up every year.
2Id like to make a complaint about all these loud dogs terrorizing my squirrels
2Also the cat attacking my bird feeder
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I have a kid with a peanut allergy and when peanuts started showing up all over the place outside, we asked our neighbors the same thing: please stop giving the squirrels peanuts. We couldn't let the kids go outside in their own backyard.
Thankfully, our neighbors are all generally really nice people and not child-murdering monsters, and actually stopped it.
People: Keep your peanuts to yourself and do not feed wildlife. Both of those things are common sense.
2I wish it were that easy for us. We've got a walnut tree somewhere in the neighborhood, and those furry little fucks keep bringing them into our yard and either trying to break them open on the driveway or they're burying them in the garden planters.....
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All these kids with peanut allergies... when I was a kid, no-one had peanut allergies. Did they just die young back then?
-4Peanut allergies are increasingly common especially in the US
7Yes
4Maybe attributed to SIDS.
3https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-05.pdf
From 8 to 6 deaths per 1000 newborns since 2000
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