Companion Toys for Single Pet Pigeons

[cyro51]

Snowflake you better behave yourself or one day you might peck at the wrong lass and she'll pluck your tail feathers

EEEEEEEEEEK, Pete!!!!! Snowflake is extremely sensitive about his tail feathers, as John well knows!!

Maybe Flakey pecked at the wrong lass and she took him for every tail feather he had, stripped the very plumage off his back and even plucked the feathers from his neck (see heartbreaking pic below)! He arrived on my doorstep close to naked but full of attitude. Perhaps that is why he prefers the peaceful Serenity to a real live pigeon!

Cynthia

[Pete Jasinski]

OHHHHHHHHHHH I'm Sorry Snowflake! I feel sooo bad for your big boy. If I would have know I would haven't have mentioned such a touchy subject. Will his feathers grow back or were the follicles damaged to point of no return? Now I feel horrible

[John_D]

naah, don't you worry Pete

Snowflake has so much attitude he was goosestepping and doing his 'Boss Pigeon' act without a thought to his lack of display material.

We think it must've been a hen puddy-tat he tangled with - he seems to have no judgement of relative sizes of pigeons, people and pusscats (maybe that's true of all pigeons?)

John

[cyro51]

Hi Pete,

Thank you for your concern. Fortunately my tail grew back bigger and better than before. We are working on the neck feathers!

'Flakey

[Lin Hansen]

Cynthia,

Keep those pictures of Snowflake coming please....just cannot get enough of that handsome devil! LOL

Linda

[John_D]

heck, Lin, we even got videos

John

[Pete Jasinski]

Where are the videos?!?!?! We need videos!!!!! I'm glad Flakey (that's so cute) grew his tail back, a naked pidgie hiney might be censored

[cyro51]

Hi Lin,

I missed a wonderful photo opportunity when I caught Snowflake dragging my spectacles into Serenity's nest! I am hoping he will do that again when I am prepared for it.

Cynthia

[Pigeonpal2002]

I was just catching up on this thread when I saw that picture of Snowflake plucked raw. EEEK!!! , what caused that???? That poor baby, I'm glad he has recovered from that undignified nakedness. I can't imagine another pigeon doing that to him, I wonder if he was being plucked by a hawk. In any case, I'm glad he's in such good hands, he's a beautiful bird Cynthia.

[John_D]

Hi Pete,

If you have a fast connection (guess most are on ADSL now) and can see .wmv files I could send you a couple of short snippets . Prob not til Monday morning UK time, tho.

John

pidgie@globalnet.co.uk

[Pete Jasinski]

Hi John,
I'm lucky to have a screaming fast cable connection so you can send your largest files Here's my email address so send away.
PJJasinski@aol.com
Thank you,

[John_D]

This pic is from Suz (Poulette), of her rescued 'house pigeon' and his lady-love. Now, if pigeons choose a mate which has coloring they associate with a parent, what was this little guy's mom and pop like

John

[Pete Jasinski]

Thanks for posting that pic for Suz John! That is simply adorable! I must say this board has some good looking pidgies! We should think about making a calender or a screen saver with all our fids

[cyro51]

Hi Brad,

EEEK!!! , what caused that????

A friend of mine feeds a flock of white pigeons and was told that one had been hit by a car. After two days of looking for the injured pigeon she found Snowflake but almost simultaneously another person found and identical white pigeon (Crystal) sitting in a gutter full of poop with a broken leg. One of them could have been hit by a car, I don't know. Or it could have been a cat...or a hawk. Snowflake would have fought back, whatever it was.

Snowflake and Crystal were delivered to me at the same time and Snowflake immediately revealed that he was no ordinary pigeon by parading as if he had the tail of a peacock, bowing back at anyone that bowed to him, running up and down his cage in a fury whenever Crystal (in the cage above) made a sound and generally showing that he was unique. Crystal was just good and quiet, healed nicely and moved into the aviary where he paired up with tiny Gonzo who had the splay leg and overgrown beak.

Cynthia

[John_D]

two more pics of Poulette's pigeon. As I said to Suz, how can one think of feral pigeons as being 'wild' birds

John