Bread on the pool cover.
The food chain around here can work like this:
A neighbor decides birds and squirrels need nourishment. Out goes half-loaves of their uneaten bread. (Nice, thick, crusty artisan bread, I must add.)
Said wildlife lugs weighty food toward some hiding place or another over the fence that divides properties.
The wildlife loses hold of the bread, which plummets onto our yard.
We too often find our cherished rescue mutt dining on the bread. She eats enough that we set in front of her.
We do not want the dog eating the bread. I throw it back over the fence. Cycle begins anew.
Sigh.
Mark Bialczak 
I guess you won’t be inviting them to your annual big shindig opening of the pool party/barbecue with drinks this year. 😉
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I don’t know for sure which neighbors are too generous with the bread so I don’t point fingers, ladysighs.
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And I thought we had problems when people dropped unwanted pets off at the farm. Guess they thought farmers wanted more dogs for whatever purpose.
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Oh, that one is far bigger than our little predicament, Sis Angie!
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Having bread dropped off for the dogs to eat might have been helpful, Bro Mark, but no one ever left food for them. We had 4 or 5 dozen feral cats plus the dogs no one wanted. And we had 2 German Shepards and 1 Australian Shepherd of our own. You would think the mouse and rat situation would be nil with that many cats, but they were afraid of the rodents. Too easy to come begging to the door. And when one of our German Shepherds came in heat there was a basset hound who caught her. 13 pups, 6 looked like G.S., 6 like the basset, and then there was Loki. Basset body, G.S. head and tail, 1 basset ear and 1 G.S. ear, Shepherd coloring. The kids decided we would keep that one while giving the rest to anyone who would take them.
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Not very thoughtful of them
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They’re just not thinking past step one, Beth … that bread is far too big for small wildlife to lug to winter safety.
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