Facepalm

Peanut shrubbery?

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.

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.

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.

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…

LOL, the squirrels that were annoying my dog, were climbing on a tree next to the windows and barking at her (obviously not loud like a dog, but it was definitively barking), as if they were mocking her that she can't do anything to them. I can imagine why dog would be upset.

Also the cat attacking my bird feeder

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.....

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

It was Jimmy Carter's fuckin' peanut tree, he left it there as a token of spite for their neighborhood.

Imaginary, since peanuts grow underground like potatos.

I dunno. I feed the birds and they seem to like it.

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.