A woman dubbed “The Pigeon Lady” has been ordered by Rome’s mayor to stop feeding the dozens of pigeons that have overrun her street after furious complaints from her neighbors. The Guardian reports that irate residents say the woman’s regular pigeon-feeding has led to an uncontrolled boom in the bird population, resulting in buildings and parked cars being coated with layers of dirty feathers and pigeon droppings. “We are prisoners in our own homes, hostages to a ridiculous situation that has made daily life unbearable,” one resident told FanPage, an Italian news website. “After years of putting up with this and trying to talk, we can’t take it anymore.” However, “The Pigeon Lady” declared that she was an animal rights activist acting on behalf of the Italian League for Bird Protection. “I put out the food in order to save them,” she told Italian news website Roma Today. In response to complaints about the pigeon muck, she said, “I’ll fix it – for myself, for the people living here, and for the poor pigeons who are the real victims.
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