a Raven brought a present for my wife

[onethatcares]

and left it in the bird bath. It was a smaller bird that had been pecked apart. Made the bird bath stink like something dead was in it.

My question: Should my wife continue to reward said Raven with pieces of cantelope/water melon and snickers bars while hoping to get a prize from it?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Sounds like that was the Raven's way of saying it wanted your wife to provide a different menu. n/t

[JudyM]

6. Ha!

[XanaDUer2]

2. Depends

Is it some sort of sleep-with-the-fishes warning?

[Anon-C]

4. :-(

[Raven]

5. We're getting a bad name here. :-(

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Raven thinks

Left a gift of food. Or there was an epic fight in the birdbath you didnt see.

Cats do the gift thing too. When its prey its because the cat thinks you are a shitty hunter. Toys are gifts too. Its because your cat loves you and cares ultimately.

You have given this raven food he owed you a gift.

[Ocelot II]

8. Sounds like how your cat will give you the gift of a dead mouse.

The raven has given your wife a thing of value (to the raven), much like the cat's dead mouse.

[onethatcares]

9. I was hoping

the raven would just skip over the dead stuff and bring diamonds and gold.

[Donkees]

11. They dunk food in water to help soften it, especially when feeding their chicks

It's best to bleach sanitize the bird-bath if you haven't already done so.

[lastlib]

10. My answer: Nevermore!

Stop rewarding bad behavior!

[onethatcares]

12. ok, screw this

the damn raven keeps bringing pieces of other birds, slices of bread, different and varied dead and rotting pieces of carrion but no gold, silver or shiny objects.

The water in the bird bath is in a word, a cesspool of smelly crap.

Should I shoot the bird with a nerf round to try to get it to leave or could you all give me some advice.

Yeah, I get to clean the crap up while wifey wonders aloud if the crow is ok.