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Carl Gulledge:
My bio,
Here is a little information about me, I hope it is informative and that some of you regulars will also post some information about yourselves here on Pigeon-Talk.

My name is Carl Gulledge, I am 61 years young, and married (for 42 years) with five grown children, self employed and I love pigeons. I own this www.pigeon-life.net web site.

When I was a boy of about 10, one day I was walking down some railroad tracks in California with some friends and we spotted a very small cage, nailed to a fence, next to the railroad tracks. The owners must have lived in the house which was about 50 yards from the tracks. Inside the cage I saw one lonely pigeon with no food or water. The bird was very thin. I took it upon myself to “steel” the pigeon away from its lonely existence.
The bird immediately took a liking to me, following me everywhere I went on my bicycle. My friends were all taken with this show of affection and wished they too had a pet pigeon. My pet pigeon was so friendly and tame that it was not long before it was killed by a neighbor’s cat. I was devastated.

From that one experience I became “hooked” on pigeons. I raised pigeons in my back yard thru grade school and high school. When I joined the army at 19 I forgot about pigeons, got married, got a job, raised children, and it was not until age 50 that I returned to raising pigeons.

Today I raise pigeons in my loft on 10 acres in Washington State. I live on an island about 30 minutes by ferry boat from Seattle Washington. I belong to a few pigeon clubs but I do not show pigeons, I do not race pigeons and I do not fly my rollers outside any more because of the Cooper hawks in my area. What I do is raise pigeons because I love them. I am especially interested in hand raising pigeons as personal pets. I have three hand raised pigeons currently, and plan to have more in the future. I hope to write a book about “pet pigeons” in the future.

I am also very interested in digital art and spend much of my spare time working on “pigeon art”. I think that if more people can see the beauty our world of pigeons then perhaps more people will begin to enjoy the excitement of owning them.

That’s it for now….if you want to talk to me directly I can be reached at Carl@pigon-life.net

I hope some of you will now write to Pigeon-Talk with your information. It will be nice to see who is out there.

Regards,
Carl Gulledge