Today's Poll: Should a city resident be allowed to keep ducks as pets?

I don't see why there is such a problem about some ducks. Let the man keep his ducks. Latinas seems to be keeping gulls as pets.

I was thinking the same thing.

I would like to have ducks as a pets but the only problem is that the dogs would get at them or the cats would too

The county health department said the large colony of gulls don't pose a health issue so why should 18 ducks?

but they are good eatin!!!

Hello people, the question was about city residents keeping ducks...ducks are not city pets! I feel sorry for the neighbors, no doubt their property values are decreased. Folks live too close to each other in the city to have this kind of thing next door.

there is no law saying that you can or can't have ducks in the city You can go over to tractor supply and buy baby ducks and chickens in March and they don't even ask you if you live in the city or not

I want a new duck :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOL2q8leiLw

I guess I am higher up on the food chain ?

http://www.ehow.com/how_2288283_cook-duck.html

Ducks are not as bad as my mother-in-law's neighbors' dog. They keep it mostly in the back yard, never clean up the piles and don't mow either.

It is my understanding that the man has lived there for 59 years and has always had ducks. I would assume his neighbors knew about them before they moved in. Now that the neighbor wants to sell, the ducks become a problem?

Amy, The one neighbor claimed on another post that the real estate agent never informed them before they moved in that their neighbor kept ducks.

Is it the real estate agent's job to notify a potential home buyer of something like that? I don't know, I am just asking.

I honestly don't think the ducks are the biggest problem. If you go on google maps and look at the house the front yard has nothing in it (this picture is obviously from a few years ago) the house looks just fine. However now there is a boat parked on the side surrounded by weeds, a car in the driveway which appears to be used as a storage shed since it is literally stuffed with items (even the driver side), plus there are huge planter boxes with a garden of sorts as well as an arbor type structure with more plants in front of the garage. I don't think anyone has a problem with people having a garden or even keeping some ducks but if begins to look like a junkyard that is an issue.

Nope Amy it's not the real estate agents job. That's the point I'm making.
It is my understanding that the neighbor said all the problems really started recently.
When I first moved out here to Batavia back in 2006, the place I rented was over on Hutchins st near the Southside deli and Paulys pizza. The neighbors house was a disaster area. Lots of clutter and derbies in the side yard and the driveway. The guy who owned it apparently didn't even stay in the house he would park in front of it or in the little bit of drive way not cluttered. Well, one weekend there was a local church group that came to the house to help the man clean his yard and get rid of the "stuff" that had accumulated over the years. They mowed his lawn, pruned his plants and trimmed the large mulberry tree in the front yard.
I'm wondering why a similar thing can't happen in this situation.