My upstairs neighbour is battery farming pigeons (rock doves) and possibly eating them, England
We've called the RSPCA, and they recommended that we call 101 to have a welfare check while we wait for them to get back to us. We're planning on calling the council and environmental health department, but we'd like to cover all grounds so if we're missing anything I'd appreciate advice.
I made a post not too long ago as her pigeon feeding antics caused a total blockage of the sewer line due to bird seed - causing my partner's garden (landlord of the ground floor) to be flooded with sewage. We ended up with an £800 bill and so far the water company hasn't agreed to reimburse it, and the landlord upstairs is ignoring us.
Well, it's developed into something worse.
One of the tenants upstairs (it's a shared property up there owned by someone else) caught her holding a plucked, dead pigeon at 4am in the communal kitchen. Apparently she tried to hide it and left the room.
They've been complaining to us recently about how she leaves feeding tubes in the kitchen, the pigeons are a nuisance, possibly making them sick etc, although we thought she was rehabilitating them. Until now.
One of them said that they suspect she's keeping them in boxes, as she can hear them flapping like their wings are obstructed and can't move. We've seen the pigeon lady leave the house with a net on a regular basis, she literally told us that she likes to go into town and catch them by TK Maxx. I am dead serious.
The other tenants agreed to gather evidence, as they feel uncomfortable using the kitchen and have gotten sick before - possibly from the pigeons. They also said they were going to call the RSPCA to add to our case.
She has a flock of hundreds of pigeons and throws bird seed on our kitchen roof extension. This has blocked the gutters, feeds rats/mice, caused a sewage back up in the garden, and also due to this the garden is covered in bird mess. So it's completely unusable and a health hazard. I haven't opened the back door since the plumber left over a month ago.
We've been complaining to her landlord for two years but he's not interested, the other tenants have also made complaints about her. He doesn't seem to be doing anything to stop it.
I know this sounds ridiculous, it's a very unique problem so I may delete this later but I'll screenshot any advice and comments. Thank you!