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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is a peanut tree?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imaginary, since peanuts grow underground like potatos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's more of a vine, like spaghetti.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peanut shells are biodegradable so yes they do get cleaned up for free. By nature

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Right, by attracting wild animals and vermin. Not everything composts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

someone 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guarantee that you will not see any peanut trees on my property.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Peanut tree ... lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I 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.....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like feeding my squirrely friends too much to stop

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you must, consider things that are unlikely to kill other people. The furry little troublemakers definitely love birdseed and sunflowers…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

i use spicy birdseed to feed just birds, not squirrels. and

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Id like to make a complaint about all these loud dogs terrorizing my squirrels

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also the cat attacking my bird feeder

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Asking 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Bro you're like the 15th person to say peanut tree without it being a joke. I'm thinking we need a public service announcement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's that have to do with the second red underline then??!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, kids and allergies? Are the squirrels feeding the children peanuts? You have to eat the peanut to get an allergic reaction. It doesn't work like fentanyl on cops, you won't die by just being around the peanut.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Er, yeah it does work like that for some people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are there so many of you fuckers out here that think peanuts grow on trees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what's so funny. Get rid of your peanut trees. And your raisin bushes. Tear our the potato hedge.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck, I wish I could just pick potatoes off of a hedge in my back yard.

Unfortunately I live in an apartment 😢

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a balcony that gets good light? Google "potato grow bag" if you do, and if you wanna grow some potatoes 😁

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a yard but opted for a grow bag. After a while I saw buds pop up, but it looked sparse. The results seemed as though they'd be a disappointment, until I unearthed them one day and had a ton of potatoes. None particularly large, but it was pretty awesome to discover. And let me tell you, I did so very little to keep them alive. They're pretty easy to grow.

And the grow bags are now the home to two blueberry bushes that I also do nothing for, and the fucking birds come and they eat my goddamn blueberries, and so maybe next year!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can whomever it is in the neighbourhood with a blueberry tree please remove it? The birds keep landing on our fence to eat them and our cat is hurting our eardrums from all the meowing. She cant ignore them, its her prey drive. Also they are dropping blueberry skins all in the bushes and our neoghbours son has a blueberry allergy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah… 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…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Dogs 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone definitely has a peanut tree in the neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No they grow on supermarket shelves mate get it right