The Buzz · Peterborough Civic Wire

It's not pigeons. What's pooping in your Peterborough backyard?

Your backyard mystery just got weirder

Here's the thing about Peterborough: we’re a small city, but sometimes we get caught up in the big city currents, like those stories about judges and lawyers and the provincial politics spilling over from Toronto. But then, you get a story like this one, and you realize you're definitely still in Peterborough. Folks, there's a whole conversation happening at city hall about… pigeon poop. Or, rather, the *lack* of it being pigeon poop.

Apparently, some people here in town have been experiencing some rather unwelcome deposits in their backyards, and the initial thought was, "Well, it must be the pigeons." But city staff, after what I can only imagine was a very thorough and perhaps slightly awkward investigation, are now saying it’s "unlikely" the pigeons are the culprits. That just raises more questions, doesn't it? If not the pigeons, then what *is* it? Are we talking about some unusually large squirrels with a vendetta? Or maybe raccoons getting a little too comfortable near Little Lake? It’s the kind of local mystery that feels perfectly at home here, something you'd hear people mulling over at the Saturday farmers' market at Morrow Park, trying to piece together the evidence. It’s got that specific, slightly absurd Peterborough flavour.

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