# How to discourage fat moochers \[mourning doves\]

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-discourage-fat-moochers-mourning-doves/697072
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-discourage-fat-moochers-mourning-doves/697072 "2014-08-31T20:20:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-discourage-fat-moochers-mourning-doves/697072/21 "2014-09-03T14:54:12Z")

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Damn I’m dense. Been spinning around the Sun for over half a century now, and I’ve always thought they were called ‘morning doves.’ :smack:

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### Author: ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-discourage-fat-moochers-mourning-doves/697072/22 "2014-09-03T15:46:44Z")

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Cats. The fatter birds are easier to catch.

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### Author: ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-discourage-fat-moochers-mourning-doves/697072/23 "2014-09-03T16:09:31Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Take it easy. It was a joke.
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> If I was serious, I would have said .22.

The problem is, you always make the same “joke” in every thread involving animals or pets. It’s long since stopped being even vaguely amusing.

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