is it a moral failing?? i think so. there’s like two pounds of cooked rice, beans, and pasta just sitting on the pavement outside the trash can atop a desk someone else threw out there. i can only assume it tasted like shit and that’s why they tossed it.
the desk I get. Hard to fit in the trash-can unless you can hoist it over your head into the top of the trashcan and not the side; yet small enough that you hope the underpaid santiation workers will still grab it without making you do a bulky item pick-up request. THE COOKED FOOD?!??! why didn’t you just fucking throw that into the trash can.
it’s gonna be here for weeks now. praying the feral cats eat it but the fact that it’s gone uneaten for about a week leads me to believe that it will be here until some rat moves in (unlikely with the feral cats) or it gets warm enough for the cockroaches to come back outside.
Americans cannot have communism until everyone adheres to shopping cart theory (btw there’s two shopping carts also out there)
It’s a hog mentality and a moral failing. Many such cases here in the USA
It’s a psychological thing, when people see trash next to the bin they will assume the bin is full and leave their trash outside. Even if the trash next to the bin is too big to fit in the bin, they don’t really think about it and put the trash outside automatically. It helps to talk with your neighbours about this and asking them to be more mindful and check if there is space in the bin before leaving their trash outside.
But…I too leave my food remains outside for birds and cats
You should be very careful with that it doesn’t attract the wrong animals and cause an infestation. Generally in cities it’s a bad idea to leave out food except for birdfeed that is tied to trees and thus not accessible to other animals.
a bird feeder is $10 at your local home goods store
That’s 10 dollars more than what Evilsandwican is currently spending to do the same thing
i mean, sure, as long as it is not a refuse pile, but also do that over by the community garden part of the apartment (I’ll gladly welcome you to do so and moan to you about how the garden should be entirely free not $50/plot/year the complex isn’t doing any damn upkeep, THE OLD LADIES AND I ARE!!!) not the trash area!!!
Maybe they didn’t want the ferals getting into the bin to be trapped?
i do not think this was a feral cat feeding operation given I have at least 4 different neighbors who gladly feed them wet canned food & canned tuna outside their door. and the fact that rice, beans, and corkscrew pasta is a really odd choice for feeding a bunch of feral cats but nevertheless
I don’t know, people, who feed ferals in my area feed them whatever, when they clean out the fridge, but we are a seriously underserved area.
