Texas Homeowners Face Lawsuit After Feeding Ducks

A retired Cypress, Texas couple has been sued for as much as $250,000 after feeding geese of their neighborhood.

A neighborhood householders affiliation is suing the couple, George and Kathleen Rowe, for alleged neighborhood rule violations which are “detrimental to the Subdivision,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

The lawsuit might price the couple as much as $250,000, an quantity that pushed the 2 to place their residence in the marketplace.

“We didn’t have the $250,000, so we’ve got to be ready in case that’s what it’s going to price,” mentioned Kathleen Rowe.

The householders affiliation’s “requested aid” included an order to not feed the geese and aid that “wouldn’t go above $250,000,” in line with the Houston Chronicle.

The Rowes’ residence has a porch that appears out at a “waterway stuffed with geese,” the newspaper mentioned, and Kathleen mentioned she believed the geese had been “dumped” within the space with out needed survival expertise.

The couple might now lose the house overlooking the water because the householders affiliation seeks the home’s foreclosures.

The householders affiliation’s criticism got here two years after Kathleen’s duck feeding habits began, she mentioned, and neighbors have since claimed the geese have been the reason for alleged property damages.

Owners within the neighborhood have claimed the geese “tear up gardens with their beaks” and have defecated locally, the newspaper reported.

Feeding geese and different wildlife is discouraged by the U.S. Division of Agriculture, in line with the division’s Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service web page, and will result in critical issues.

The USDA warns that human meals isn’t wholesome for animals like geese and enormous quantities of geese can pollute waterways with feces, “as much as a pound” a day in some instances, the web page states.