Elizabeth has many King pigeons coming into the shelters in San Francisco and has placed a bunch this Spring.....read the King Car-a-Van story in the adoption forum...
But read this first...
... I was wondering...we make a big deal about spaying and neutering dogs and cats due to overpopulation and we encourage people to adopt instead of breeding....
...so maybe there are P.T. members who have not considered giving a home to a bird in need? How hard would it be for some of us it to take in just one or two more birds? I have a King in with my loft of homers...it's no big deal! And I have another bunch of Kings in an aviary full of doves, finches and buttons....they're all doing great. Most of these Kings are young, healthy birds. Granted they do not "DO" anything like race or home or roll or tumble...but that does not make them any less worthy of living. These birds (and not just Elizabeth's Kings....) are in this predicament because MAN bred them to eat them and then turned them loose or lost them or gave up...so more than most breeds, these guys are dependant on us and maybe, just maybe we have even a greater responsibility to care for those who we placed in peril. Just a thought.
