Katebrownb
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- Feb 10, 2016
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recently, there has been a mice infestation in the surrounding area where I live. Since I work from home, I rarely drive my car. And well, mice turned the inside of the engine into a little mouse town. My car was completely rewired, thankfully covered by insurance. Long story short— I told my neighbor about this, who also has a car sitting idle. We live in a home, and the best way I can discribe it, as its split into two aparentments, side by side, and our cars comes right up to our front doors.
After hearing about the infestation, he decided to pour ammonia around our cars and adjoining porch. Supposably this is suppose to keep the mice away by burning their noses.. this is something Ive never heard of before and as an animal lover I would never do.
I have a large window in front (over looking the cars and porch), where I have two lovebirds, and an alexandrine.
Understand, he came and told me all this after the fact and I was absolutely livid. Also, this neighbor is, I would say, mentally disabled and is difficult to talk to. I couldn't get out of him how much he poured, but, I did smell it after it happened.
So my question.. what harm is this to my birds. I have closed off ALL the windows, but I just can't relax knowing there's chemicals poured right outside my door. Unfortunately, I cannot move them to the other side of the house, because it's a large one bedroom, with a large front room, kitchen, etc, all with windows to this porch.
The smell is gone. And all birds are fine. I called the local avian-vet and they said keep an eye on them, but there's no current danger.
Also- if anyone has any advice on talking to this neighbor, that would be fantastic. After my boyfriend and I spoke with him this evening, as calmly as we could, with all the facts on the table, he said he was going to continue to use the ammonia because his car is worth more than my birds, and my birds were going to die anyways. I think anyone with a bird, or just generally a soul, can understand the red i was seeing. We've had our issues in the past, but we've learned to just stay away from him. It's a very unusual, difficult situation.
my first concern is my birds, and dealing with the a-hole second.
I don't know much about ammonia either, I don't know if it's still toxic after the fumes are gone?
I actually started shaking from just writing this. Hopefully some fellow-bird lovers can help me out!
- Kate
After hearing about the infestation, he decided to pour ammonia around our cars and adjoining porch. Supposably this is suppose to keep the mice away by burning their noses.. this is something Ive never heard of before and as an animal lover I would never do.
I have a large window in front (over looking the cars and porch), where I have two lovebirds, and an alexandrine.
Understand, he came and told me all this after the fact and I was absolutely livid. Also, this neighbor is, I would say, mentally disabled and is difficult to talk to. I couldn't get out of him how much he poured, but, I did smell it after it happened.
So my question.. what harm is this to my birds. I have closed off ALL the windows, but I just can't relax knowing there's chemicals poured right outside my door. Unfortunately, I cannot move them to the other side of the house, because it's a large one bedroom, with a large front room, kitchen, etc, all with windows to this porch.
The smell is gone. And all birds are fine. I called the local avian-vet and they said keep an eye on them, but there's no current danger.
Also- if anyone has any advice on talking to this neighbor, that would be fantastic. After my boyfriend and I spoke with him this evening, as calmly as we could, with all the facts on the table, he said he was going to continue to use the ammonia because his car is worth more than my birds, and my birds were going to die anyways. I think anyone with a bird, or just generally a soul, can understand the red i was seeing. We've had our issues in the past, but we've learned to just stay away from him. It's a very unusual, difficult situation.
my first concern is my birds, and dealing with the a-hole second.
I don't know much about ammonia either, I don't know if it's still toxic after the fumes are gone?
I actually started shaking from just writing this. Hopefully some fellow-bird lovers can help me out!
- Kate