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Apr. 11th, 2024 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormDuring the eclipse I watched 8-10 ravens move a sheet of roofing tin by jumping in various coordinated ways on it to bounce it and skew it to one side little by little. I replaced it and they moved it again.
The next day I cancelled my participation in the program that picks up expired food from the grocery store. It is great for the animals - protein for the pigs, fresh greens for the geese in winter, yoghurt for the chickens, fresh meat for the dogs. Unfortunately it requires removing a tremendous amount of garbage/wrapping from the food before I can give it to the animals. That garbage, and the food before I remove stuff from it, needs to be stored somewhere. I can keep it safe from bears, from my dogs, but not from the ravens.
Over the years we've been escalating, which in animal training terms means I've given them progressively difficult challenges to solve and thus brought them up to this level. At this point they can open my garbage cans, push garbage cans over, move roofing tin and boards, go through any plastic or cardboard, and move boxes. I don't have a dedicated indoor space, so I give up.
Joke's on them, I guess: between stopping the grocery store food and getting rid of the pigs I'll be able to feed all my animals inside, either inside the goose house or the house-house. As a result of pursuing resources too greedily they will now have none, and the colony that's built up over time will starve. Likely they'll make my life very difficult as they do so, probably attacking the chickens and ducks and wrecking the newly-seeded garden when I get there. In a couple years it should subside though.
I'm still planting seeds to go in the garden this summer. I'm also throwing things out, de-hoarding canned goods etc.
I'm streamlining things and cleaning up loose ends. Hopefully that serves me well.
The next day I cancelled my participation in the program that picks up expired food from the grocery store. It is great for the animals - protein for the pigs, fresh greens for the geese in winter, yoghurt for the chickens, fresh meat for the dogs. Unfortunately it requires removing a tremendous amount of garbage/wrapping from the food before I can give it to the animals. That garbage, and the food before I remove stuff from it, needs to be stored somewhere. I can keep it safe from bears, from my dogs, but not from the ravens.
Over the years we've been escalating, which in animal training terms means I've given them progressively difficult challenges to solve and thus brought them up to this level. At this point they can open my garbage cans, push garbage cans over, move roofing tin and boards, go through any plastic or cardboard, and move boxes. I don't have a dedicated indoor space, so I give up.
Joke's on them, I guess: between stopping the grocery store food and getting rid of the pigs I'll be able to feed all my animals inside, either inside the goose house or the house-house. As a result of pursuing resources too greedily they will now have none, and the colony that's built up over time will starve. Likely they'll make my life very difficult as they do so, probably attacking the chickens and ducks and wrecking the newly-seeded garden when I get there. In a couple years it should subside though.
I'm still planting seeds to go in the garden this summer. I'm also throwing things out, de-hoarding canned goods etc.
I'm streamlining things and cleaning up loose ends. Hopefully that serves me well.
