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Planned pigeonhood: Pigeon birth control program set to expand in Toronto, to deal with overpopulation generating too much birdshit

Yeah.

Many Toronto residents won’t be taking anymore crap — from pigeons.

“I live here, right across the street, and the pigeons are a nuisance,” said Richard Evans, as he pointed to a condo building at Yonge and Finch.

“They line up on this wire here across Yonge Street, hundreds of them. They have a habit of going to the bathroom on the road and on cars.”

Evans says he hasn’t been ‘lucky enough’ to be used as turd target by pigeons before, but that he hears a lot of concerns from those with balconies on their condos.

These concerns have been heard loud and clear by Esther Attard.

“(Residents) can’t use their outdoor space, well, because of excrement,” said the chief veterinarian and director of animal services for the City of Toronto.

“It can be a public health risk, but that is a low risk. We haven’t had any of these issues.”

In its quest to find solutions, Attard says a humane option stood out: putting pigeons on the pill.

Ovocontrol, produced by Innolytics LLC, is a contraceptive for pigeons that is made into wheat-flour kibble.

Dubbed ‘planned pigeonhood’, the kibble is put into a timed, automatic feeder and placed on several rooftops in urban areas.

Putting the ‘colon’ back in ‘colonialism’…

A monument to the Irish Regiment of Canada was proposed, which would have used stones from the Giant’s Causeway

documents concerning William Perkins Bull’s mysteriously aborted attempt to erect a monument dedicated to the Irish Regiment of Canada in Toronto’s Armoury using imported stones from Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway.

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