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27th October 2009, 11:55 PM
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Older birds escape from lofts, or get lost during a race. Some will join up with feral flocks, and survive. Most are found starving on streets, and in backyards. They just don't know what to do. They don't always join a flock and learn from them. I know it sounds easy and uncomplicated, but it just isn't that easy. Many shelters and the like just don't care anything about pigeons. When I rescued my 6 original babies, a rehabber told me to bring them back to the area where I had found them and put them in a basket in a tree. That their parents would find them. Now, she was either a total idiot, or wanted me to kill them, because that is exactly what I would have been doing if I had been dumb enough to believe what she told me. It was cold, early springtime here, and they would have frozen, starved and died. Their parents wouldn't have found them. Some people just don't want to bother with a pigeon. I'm sorry to say that I think that is how these people feel. Even in warm weather, this little one would be challenged to survive on his own. But in the cold, he'll not have a chance. I'm sorry. I know that is not what you want to believe. I'm just telling you how it really is. I have a loft full of rescues, that were starving, or sick or injured when found. It just isn't that easy, even with other pigeons around. If it were, I wouldn't have a loft full of birds that wouldn't have made it, if not for some caring individual who caught them in time. Again, I'm sorry. But I'm more sorry for this baby who will soon to thrown out in the cold, into a world that he just isn't ready for, or equipped to survive in. That's like putting a very young child out on the streets and expecting that they will find friends who will teach them what they need to know to find food and shelter, and how to avoid predators. The predator would probably get them first.
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28th October 2009, 05:54 PM
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Jay is right. If you let this baby go before spring, it will perish and all your hard work will be in vain and a dear soul lost.
Pigeons learn from their parents how to find food, where to find food and to avoid predators. This baby is absent that benefit and releasing her would be cruel. Please don't do it. The shelter that told you she would be alright is very wrong.
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28th October 2009, 07:32 PM
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here are two reasons you dont want to let your baby go right now ..
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29th October 2009, 09:06 PM
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Those are two REAL good reasons.
There is also starvation, the cold, and the bird being soooo young.
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