Feeding birds in your garden can be against the City's By-Law.
A Durbanville resident is grappling with potential penalties under the City of Cape Town's Animal Keeping By-Law after receiving a notice for feeding birds directly from the ground in her garden.
The situation arose following a complaint from a neighbour who viewed the woman's actions as a health and environmental hazard.
The woman, whose name is known to the Cape Argus, took to STOP CoCT’s Facebook page to share the notice publicly, stating that she had Environmental Health inspectors at her home and that the neighbour had been “spiteful” in a bid to stop her from feeding birds that came to her garden.
“I have now had nine Environmental Health inspectors at my home after a spiteful neighbour decided that he hates birds.
