OldHouseLover Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Lived here since 1970. Nice 1950s brick bungalows line the street. Heard a commotion outside late this afternoon...thought the skateboarders were doing their thing. Little later, we were going out to eat. Imagine my surprise seeing a large deer with antlers hanging in neighbors carport just a few feet from street. Hour later came home, deer still hanging in carport, skinned & head off. Aging hippie lives there. Bet no one has ever seen this in East End, North Side or other areas that are not considered "gentrified"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Imagine my surprise seeing a large deer with antlers hanging in neighbors carport just a few feet from street. Hour later came home, deer still hanging in carport, skinned & head off. Aging hippie lives there. Bet no one has ever seen this in East End, North Side or other areas that are not considered "gentrified"!We've had goats and a pig roasted in a pit dug in a front yard before, but never a deer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieDidIt Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Lived here since 1970. Nice 1950s brick bungalows line the street. Heard a commotion outside late this afternoon...thought the skateboarders were doing their thing. Little later, we were going out to eat. Imagine my surprise seeing a large deer with antlers hanging in neighbors carport just a few feet from street. Hour later came home, deer still hanging in carport, skinned & head off. Aging hippie lives there. Bet no one has ever seen this in East End, North Side or other areas that are not considered "gentrified"!um, we have plucked geese and skinned deer right in the driveway of our Tanglewood house. This is Texas after all. Only complaints we got were in The Woodlands about such things. The yanks couldn't take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memebag Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 When I lived in the Heights, the family across the backyard chain-link fence kept a chicken tied up in their yard. Our cats treated it like television. They'd spend hours watching the chicken show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 When I lived in the Heights, the family across the backyard chain-link fence kept a chicken tied up in their yard. Our cats treated it like television. They'd spend hours watching the chicken show. Don't forget, it's illegal to have these kind of animals captive in the city limits. Call the fuzz or 311. We were glad when the gun-toting drunks next door finally fled. Seemed every other weekend they had wild, beer swiggin, rooster fighting games going on. Then on off days, they would let the pitbulls attack each other for entertainment. I should have charged a fee and invited onlookers from my 2nd story for a ringside seat. Can't beat em join em I guess. Needles to say, we popped a champagne bottle open when they finally hit the road. Now they are in the news (whole other topic). Moral to story: It can always be worse than what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memebag Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Don't forget, it's illegal to have these kind of animals captive in the city limits. Call the fuzz or 311.No way. That was our cats' favorite show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Don't forget, it's illegal to have these kind of animals captive in the city limits. Call the fuzz or 311. Is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Is it? No. You can have up to 30 chickens inside city limits, with some restrictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Is there still that house downtown next to the tire shop by Pierce Elevated that has a bunch of chickens in the backyard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 You can have up to 30 chickens inside city limits, with some restrictions.Frickin awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west20th Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 There is a house on 20th and Durham that had some chickens in the front yard. Haven't seen them in awhile, getting worried about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Frickin awesome.you better keep it clean or the health dept will get ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 you better keep it clean or the health dept will get ya.true - if anyone acts on it:Sec. 6-31. Location restrictions for fowl.It shall be unlawful, except as provided in sections 6-33 and 6-34 of this Code, for any person to keep, possess or maintain in the city any chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pea-fowls, or any other bird or fowl, except parakeets, canaries, parrots, cockatoos, macaws or similar size birds, or any pens, enclosures, or other structures in which any such fowl are kept or possessed within 100 feet of any actual residence or habitation of human beings, or within 100 feet of any church, school or hospital, other than the residence of the keeper, possessor or owner of such fowl, such distance of 100 feet to be measured in a straight line from the nearest point of any pen, enclosure, or other such structure in which such fowl are kept to the nearest point of such actual residence or place of human habitation, or church, school or hospital.(Code 1968, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 true - if anyone acts on it: All 4 of our neighbors adjacent to that property acted on it and it worked. Sayonara Big Bird! They kept flying the coop to our yards, some died under our house too. Fowl odor > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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