with an air rifle when they are in my garden.
2007-07-11 08:46:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
racheal he may understand but unable to stop birds dumping on my decking
2007-07-11 09:02:40 · update #1
happy murcia u r an idiot.
2007-07-11 09:03:22 · update #2
kelly b stop tree hugging its a freckin big budgie.and as morning looms its history.
2007-07-11 09:04:27 · update #3
jr1084 same prob with cats tacking a dump on my lawn,[can i shoot them as well]
2007-07-11 09:05:27 · update #4
allan j go find your flat cap, search for your ferret be careful cause your black puddings burning.typical stereotypical northerner
2007-07-11 09:08:24 · update #5
allan j go find your flat cap, search for your ferret be careful cause your black puddings burning.typical stereotypical northerner
2007-07-11 09:08:25 · update #6
kringle ,and your point is.??????????/
2007-07-11 09:09:04 · update #7
kitty thanks but i hate cats they make me sneeze.
2007-07-11 09:10:42 · update #8
citizen ,you have to have morals for it to be considered immoral.i on the othet hand have few when it comes to some over grown bugdie crapping on my garden.
2007-07-11 09:13:24 · update #9
jmc 445976.at last a decent answer.thankyou./so many tree huggers here its unreal. pretty sure they are the neighbours but not 100 per cent. iether way they are crapping on my decking.so i guess its pigeon pie 4 t tomo.
2007-07-11 09:16:03 · update #10
tim thanks 4 that 1 i hears about that years ago with seagulls and bread soaked in lemonadesomething about there belly explodes.chears bud..
2007-07-11 09:17:33 · update #11
lol mikey i have sorted the local cat prob.just go to a local animal wildlife park and buy some tiger[yes i am serious] crap and put on garden they dont come back,something to with sent apparently.doesnt seem to work with over grown budgies.oh well out with the air riffle then....
2007-07-11 09:20:43 · update #12
It is illegel. Just talk to your neighbour i'm sure he'll understand.
2007-07-11 08:49:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
If you're in the UK, and the pigeons are actually owned by your neighbour, in that he looks after them and they are racing pigeons for example, to shoot them would certainly constitute criminal damage to his property, and possibly break animal cruelty laws. If they are merely wild birds that happen to frequent his garden, perhaps because he feeds them, they are not his property. However, if you fire a weapon from your garden into his you may commit an offence under the firearms act. The best course of action initially would be to contact your local environmental health office, disease can be spread in bird droppings, I sympathise with you but retain the upper hand and stay within the law. ps - if you are to shoot the birds in your own garden with some sort of firearm, make sure it's legally held and you inform your local police first, otherwise a well meaning neighbour will hear the shots, call the police and you'll have an MP5 trained on you P.D.Q!
2007-07-11 15:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If all else failed, I'm sure you could be done for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace. Wringing their necks is quiter.
It's legal to keep pigeons. Pigeons fly about and crap a lot. Unless you can find a restrictive covenant or local byelaw that stops your neighbour keeping pigeons, there's not a lot you can do about it.
2007-07-11 15:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but no. Although wild pigeons are classified as "vermin", even if you shoot them in your garden you are committing an Offence; if they are someone's pets I reckon it would be almost a hanging offence!!
You need a Licence to shoot wild pigeons on your land and getting one is extremely difficult unless you can prove that you are a farmer and they are damaging your crops. I doubt you'd get one to shoot the neighbour's birds!
2007-07-11 17:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not know but I think you may well be in trouble letting off a firearm in a residential area. Just think what would happen if you injure someone. Or the pellets go onto someone eleses properety or the street.
2007-07-11 17:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends how far away you are from your neighbours, if you are in a town and close to them then you shouldn't even have an air-rifle there. If it's the middle of nowhere then go for it - each to their own.
2007-07-11 17:28:49 · answer #6 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they were nomal pigeons it would be fine to shoot them in your garden. But if the mans keeping them there probably racing pigeons.
In which case it would be like shooting his cat for pooing in your garden!
Pigeons do suck though i hate them.
2007-07-11 16:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by Mikey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do shoot your neighbour's pigeons, it would be easy for him to engineer a scene that gave the police cause (by their rules) to confiscate your guns, so be careful.
2007-07-11 16:05:01 · answer #8 · answered by Clive 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your neighbour owns them, it's probably criminal damage to shoot or poison them. Could you get a cat? A cat cant be held responsible for its actions.
2007-07-11 15:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by kitty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is generally illegal to discharge a weapon in a residential area. Though, if you were to put baking soda on some bread and feed it to them, I'm sure that your problem would end with a "bang".
2007-07-11 15:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Tim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is only ever illegal if you get caught so don't get caught and he will think a hawk or something has got them but another alternative is poison wheat or seed on the ground or a pile of grains soaked in whisky this will make the birds to drunk to fly and you can deal with them as you please trust me the whisky works
2007-07-13 08:57:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋