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You evidently don't live in a large town where pigeons are winged rats. Seeing the accumulated dirt that infests every bridge or building ledge, dirt that breeds disease and parasites and then falls on people.

Having to walk under a bridge looking up to ensure that a pigeon doesn't shit on you. How many bridges do you think you walk under in a large city ?

I'm not disputing the pigeon's right to an existence as a species, but like the common or garden rattus norwegicus, in concentrations as you find in london and other cities they are a pest, a nuisance and a genuine health hazard.

Or are you saying that, as progressives, we should cuddle rats too ? Cos, I'd say that was going into areas I cannot follow

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:21:42 PM EST
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I never said anything about cuddling rats.  We should limit the food that is available to rats, so that they don't breed

And as progressives, I thought we all agreed that humans are not the only ones who share the planet and that killing animals for our esthetic reasons seems to me to be very old fashioned thinking.  

I guess your country doesn't do a good job of cleaning up after pigeons, but mine does

And, if we were to follow your reasoning, we should also kill dogs and cats, because I've stepped in their poo plenty of times

by zoe on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:33:51 PM EST
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