{"id":97692,"date":"2023-10-04T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=97692"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:52:35","slug":"thumbs-down-on-wildlife-feeding-bylaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionrockland.ca\/en\/societe\/thumbs-down-on-wildlife-feeding-bylaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs down on wildlife feeding bylaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most of Alfred-Plantagenet Township council think that the municipality does not need a bylaw telling residents not to feed wild animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need these kind of bylaws,\u201d said Councillor Ian Walker. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to manage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council reviewed a draft proposal for a bylaw dealing with feeding wildlife during its September 19 committee of the whole session. Councillor Jean-Pierre Cadieux proposed the bylaw, saying that he has received complaints from residents in one neighbourhood about a person putting food out for birds and attracting large numbers of gulls and other birds that were becoming a nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bylaw, if approved, would forbid residents from leaving any garbage, food leftovers, compost or any other type of debris outside and available to any animal to scavenge for food. All garbage containers and compost bins would need to be secured against animals.<\/p>\n<p>The bylaw would also forbid leaving food out that would attract large \u201cpest birds\u201d like gulls, crows, ravens, and pigeons that would end gathering in large flocks and becoming a nuisance for other property owners.<\/p>\n<p>The bylaw would include exceptions for the ban on feeding wildlife. It would not apply to bird feeders set out for the benefit of small birds like cardinals, finches, marlins, and sparrows. It would also not apply to situations where wild animals are feeding on fruit and berry trees and bushes or on seeds or nuts found on trees or on the ground on a person\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p>Most members of council agreed that the bylaw would be too difficult to enforce. They indicated that residents should try to consider their neighbours when they choose to leave food out for wild animals. Council also indicated that if anyone has problems with wild animals in their neighbourhood they should hire a trapper to catch the animals for later release far away from the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Alfred-Plantagenet Township council think that the municipality does not need a bylaw telling residents not to feed wild animals. \u201cWe don\u2019t need these kind of bylaws,\u201d said Councillor Ian Walker. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to manage.\u201d Council reviewed a draft proposal for a bylaw dealing with feeding wildlife during its September 19 committee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":97693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-societe"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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