Chipmunks don t usually cache foods inside downspouts themselves.
Eating food out of gutter.
Unfortunately they may also get the idea pretty much any other time too.
If the moisture and decaying organic matter in a clogged system isn t the primary draw then it s often the fact that gutters high above.
I m the gutter gourmet.
He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity in which among other things he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting ate live cats snakes lizards and puppies and swallowed eels whole without chewing.
But can t really afford that this year with all the extra money going to the high energy and food prices.
Cooking oil is used heavily in chinese foo.
Because i have been dining out on the half eaten fast food and takeaways thoughtfully abandoned by my fellow.
Gutters are a beacon to pests for more than one reason.
Needless to say consuming foods that are fried with this dirty oil can be harmful to human health.
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So my brain has kept working the issue even while i was asleep.
Most of china s gutter oil winds up in cheap restaurants and among street food vendors.
How i spent a month eating other people s leftovers.
He would eat any available food from gutters and refuse heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger.
Instead they simply collect food inside the spout and carry it to a nearby cache.
The oil contains contaminants pathogens and other potentially lethal chemicals.
These wire contraptions line the top of your gutters preventing leaves and other debris from accumulating in the gutters.
You can find gutter toppers at most hardware stores.
Gutter toppers also prevent squirrels from making nests and resting in your gutters.
You may notice chipmunks climbing into your downspouts after rain or snow to collect food washed down your gutters.
Eating food cooked with gutter oil can be poisonous.
1 out of 10 lower market meals in china are cooked using gutter oil.
Only water will then seep down to the actual gutter.
China s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil.