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We have some visitors to our pond.......




Every year they come, and for the past 3 years it's been two males and one female - we're wondering if it's always the same trio - one drake (we call him 'Francis') stays close to the drakess, the other one sort of 'keeps nicks' but if he gets too close to the drakess - Francis starts getting agitated and then beats the carp out of him! Now if this IS the same trio - that's some dedication!




Now the filtration system cost about £800 not including the pump, which is not a proper pond pump, it's a sump pump - some pump our sump pump is too - it keeps giving some of the smaller or less wary fish hairy rides to the header pool and/or the filter box. Sometimes of course they don't make it in one piece. We did builld a brick 'house' for the pump but they still get in - so it has to go and for 4000 odd gallons an hour we're looking at about £300 for a good eco pond pump.

Aaaaaanyway - of course Mrs R thinks they are cute and is a total 'animal person' but I don't lash out that sort of money to keep my pond nice and clear to have it trashed by these three morons, sorry ducks, not moorhens.

So, what do I do

1. Discourage them by throwing things at them
2. Have a word with a gamekeeper type customer I know very well (have them shot IOW)
3. Leave them alone

??

I'm with Mrs R on this one (as if you had to ask! )

I'm with your cat!

Well, would be with our old cat, Sammy, who used to take foxes on. Then again Francis could be a well 'ard mallard.

Roboframer wrote:...a well 'ard mallard.

Classic!

Sammy was a sight to see running at a fox - transformed from a (trust me) total chocolate box cuddly thing in to a mass of claws, teeth and noise - rushing through the long grass in the field behind us, spread low to flatten the grass around/in front of him to give an illusion of a bigger thing.

I read up on foxes/cats after and it's actually no big deal - foxes won't mix it with cats, still a sight to see though.

Roboframer wrote:Sammy was a sight to see running at a fox - transformed from a (trust me) total chocolate box cuddly thing in to a mass of claws, teeth and noise - rushing through the long grass in the field behind us, spread low to flatten the grass around/in front of him to give an illusion of a bigger thing.

For Forum menbers who've not seen the translation of my signature, it translates thus:

"Nature breaks out through the eyes of the cat."

This looks like a job for Elmer Fudd and his twusty shotgun.

Pethky wabbit!

Beat me to it you wascal.

Now I wonder where that came from?

My how the newts are coming on this year!

That's Isaac, he has a brother 'pissedasa'

LOL - that's just gone out by email 'duck problem solved' before & after, to lots of people!

It's that bloody emu again!

ROTFLMAO!!