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PIGEON PLIGHT: Owner of facility secrets his flock to a safe place outside the cityNot sure what to think.. He is helping hundreds but admits to euthanizing thousands.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/56878382.html?numComments=18 |
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Seems like he was doing the best he could for the birds he found with the resources he had.
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He's a hero in my book!
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Spoke with him yesterday. This is how it works: He goes in and captures about 95 percent of them, then uses an air rifle to shoot the remaining 5 percent. He takes the captured pigeons back to the intake facility, gives them antibiotics, weeds out the ones that are sick, and then houses the remaining ones.
However, there are jobs where he says he doesn't save any of the birds, such as our local garbage dump's transfer facility. He and his team recently went in and shot all 2,000 pigeons there, because he said they couldn't be rehabilitated as they were full of grease and had been living off garbage. There a few more of these facilities where he will be doing the same. |
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I wonder if there isn't something we (Pigeon Talk members) couldn't do to help? To have to kill so many because they're greasy and live off garbage--so what? That seems like it would be the least of the problems with some of the ones needing rehab. I mean, if they could be trapped, couldn't we somehow split them up like we did with the king pigeon caravan? It just seems that here's someone who's willing to work with the pigeons and pigeon people, we should take advantage of it and try to help save some of the ones slated for death.
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What most of the people do not understand is that there is always balance in the nature. People as this you are talking about, remove pigeons from one area. Food is still there, because garbage remains unchanged. This gives opportunity to other animals as rats and mice and raccoons and jackals to step in and breed. Mammals are bit more dangerous for humans because they carry diseases which affect people more than birds’ diseases.
Lack of information to the wide public is what creates negative attitude towards birds and pigeons in particular. ![]() |
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MaryJane, I agree. I am willing to help. I have a pij (Greaser) who was covered in restaurant grease, and after a while, and many, many baths, he is a happy bird, paired with one of my handicapped girls.
He's been getting lessons from racers, maybe it's time some rehabbers help him, too. |
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plamenh
best response IMO. Thanks bro Peace. |
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The man/company in question here is in the PEST EXTERMINATION BUSINESS. He has tried to gain a larger piece of the extermination business here in Las Vegas by going around wearing a badge that looks like a sheriff's badge and advertises that he is trying to become a Public Utility Co. It was a great gimic on his part, but he has exterminated many, many more birds than he was able to house in that unsanitary so called sancutary. He is making a tremendous amount of money killing pigeons. I hate to think of the fate that the birds he has housed in a very unsanitary chain link cage, now in an undisclosed location have suffered.
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I'm no punk," he said. "I'm a fighter. The last thing you want to do is piss off a guy who understands pigeons."
well that's why he kills the one's he can not catch there to smart for him to catch so instead of leaving them to keep doing what they have been doing for a while hey let's shoot them right? yes because that's the answer to everyone's problem with a bird that we all enjoy let's just kill it there was a store called kitkat here in ingersoll that housed a pair of pigeons and there young would tae off when old enough and when they mated up they would go back well 2 years ago i cought most of them and i left one pair up there because they did not want to be cought at all (i found good homes for them and there quite tame now) so what is wrong with leaving the ones that are to smart?
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wow, i don't like any of it, he's getting paid as an exterminator, but feels bad enough about it to try to save some of them by caging them for the rest of their lives, but doesn't have a problem killing most of them.
what harm are birds doing in the dump? what harm really are they doing anyway anywhere? i can't wrap my head around this one he's a total contradiction
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altgirl, you should post that in the story's comment area, right now it's mostly pigeon haters there.
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will do...done
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