Comments on: Please don’t feed the animals http://ellensmith.org/blog/2009/06/02/please-dont-feed-the-animals/ I'm Ellen Smith, member of the Oak Ridge City Council. Thank you for visiting my blog and reading my views on public and private life in and around Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This website is my own; content here does not represent the official policies or views of the City of Oak Ridge. To add your own comments, click on the topic title to open a comment box. To read posts about a particular topic, scroll down to "Categories" (in the sidebar) or use the "Search" box in the sidebar. Look under "Archives" to see collections of past posts organized by date. Wed, 02 May 2012 13:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ray Kircher http://ellensmith.org/blog/2009/06/02/please-dont-feed-the-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-39045 Ray Kircher Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:41:28 +0000 http://ellensmith.org/blog/?p=224#comment-39045 Sensible article about wildlife, but I don't think it clears the air. Are we to become a city or become a wildlife sanctuary? Either way, feeding wanderers of Oak Ridge isn't an ordinance but a waste of time. In a wider view, people who put out trash, keep compost piles, have other wildlife die on their property are feeding animals. If it wasn't for the racoons and opossums, the dead groundhogs would be piling up behind my house. I believe the lack of hunting these small critters on DOE is populating more into our city, not people feeding rogue animals. Many animals are migratory and feeding them wouldn't change their behavior or very little. I believe these problems Oak Ridge has will be, whether we feed them or not. Yet this brings up a piece of artwork I've seen about Oak Ridge Senior feedings. Furthermore, we keep feeding businesses, yet nothing has come of it. Sensible article about wildlife, but I don’t think it clears the air. Are we to become a city or become a wildlife sanctuary? Either way, feeding wanderers of Oak Ridge isn’t an ordinance but a waste of time. In a wider view, people who put out trash, keep compost piles, have other wildlife die on their property are feeding animals. If it wasn’t for the racoons and opossums, the dead groundhogs would be piling up behind my house. I believe the lack of hunting these small critters on DOE is populating more into our city, not people feeding rogue animals. Many animals are migratory and feeding them wouldn’t change their behavior or very little. I believe these problems Oak Ridge has will be, whether we feed them or not.

Yet this brings up a piece of artwork I’ve seen about Oak Ridge Senior feedings. Furthermore, we keep feeding businesses, yet nothing has come of it.

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