True confessions of a Crazy Pigeon Person...

I loved your post, Richard.

Richard, :That\\\'s so f Yep! Love it!

Yes I am! but they are irresitable

Here's another one... I'm buying some pigeon and dove diapers so they can have sleep-overs in the house with me.

Luna Wolf wrote:

Here's another one... I'm buying some pigeon and dove diapers so they can have sleep-overs in the house with me.

Love it!!

AviatorRodent wrote:

Crazy?

I too love the smell of pigeons. Elmo gets a good sniff around his neck hourly. I love the smell of pigeon breath.

Elmo joins me in whatever I do. Be it having a bath, using the toilet, cooking (he loves standing on my foot when I cook, I think it's got to do with laminate flooring), etc, etc.

I could talk about our pigeons for hours, and I have to restrain myself when I'm with friends.

I find myself bowing my head in public, at people, babies, or pigeons... yes... really!

I've setup a website dedicated to our pigeons

I spy on my pigeon with a remote webcam

We've taken our pigeons on holiday

We allow our pigeons to rule our lives! But absolutely love it!

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Luna Wolf wrote:

Here's another one... I'm buying some pigeon and dove diapers so they can have sleep-overs in the house with me.

Ok... here's my confession:

I recently went to see my best friend who I haven't seen in 4 months and the whole time I was with her I was thinking about my pigeons, Georgie and Elmo, and wishing I was with them instead. ... Does that make me a bad friend or a really good pigeon lover?!

Also, as with my husband, AviatorRodent, and many other crazy pigeon people, I love the smell of pigeon.

Hmmm... I cannot think of any more really but maybe that's just because I think what I do is normal and not crazy at all!

Mrs.AviatorRodent wrote:

Ok... here's my confession:

I recently went to see my best friend who I haven't seen in 4 months and the whole time I was with her I was thinking about my pigeons, Georgie and Elmo, and wishing I was with them instead. ... Does that make me a bad friend or a really good pigeon lover?!

Also, as with my husband, AviatorRodent, and many other crazy pigeon people, I love the smell of pigeon.

Hmmm... I cannot think of any more really but maybe that's just because I think what I do is normal and not crazy at all!

Believe me...more will come to you. Yep...you're a normal

A few more:
I slow down under bridges so I can look at the pigeons.
When I set up my fish tank I'm going to get a silver goldfish. Mostly because I like the color silver, but also because I think they look like little aquatic pigeons.
I put cooing doves on my mp3 player.
My desktop has a picture of a pigeon.
I spent way too much time on this website looking at all the different pigeon species.

Luna Wolf, you qualify as yet another . I too slow down to check out the pigeons under bridges and on the telephone wires. LOL.

Doesn't every body have pigeons on their desktop?

Does this qualify as crazy pigeon person material?

Right now I have a young bird trying to take a box, and a bird that thinks it is his second box is trying to defend it. Now, I have more boxes than I need at present, but so many of the males have tried to stake a claim on 2nd and 3rd boxes, plus the fact that they are just difficult to another male trying to take a nest box. If they had their way, 3 males would own all 19 boxes! I don't like them being mean to one another. Think everyone should play nice. And the bird that wants it as a second box is Screech, who is lots bigger than little Rags, who is trying to claim his first box. So I have been locking Screech up during the day some days, and leaving the box open for Rags to adjust to, and make it his. On the days that Screech isn't locked up, I just close the box. I am forever going in there and pulling Screech or his mate Stormy out of the box, and little Rags is sitting there looking beaten.I didn't know what I was going to do, as if I try giving Rags another box, someone else would be doing the same thing. My sister had the idea to scare Screech from the box, so that he wouldn't want it, so this is what I have done. I hung this plastic coated wire thing in the back of the box, and when Screech or Stormy goes inside, I pull the attached string, and it pushes them out of the box. Of course, when Rags goes in, nothing happens, so he isn't scared of it. So far it has been working. I can do this from the loft, or from inside the house, as my window opens up into the loft, and I just run the string through the window. I can sneak up and check on them, and pull the string if the wrong bird is in the box. Screech does seem to be losing interest, but so far, I can only leave it open when I'm home to check. Now, I can't tell you how many times I 've gone in there to remove the wrong bird, and how much time I have spent on this. Does this make me crazy just because I want peace in my loft, and for everyone to have a box? One of our members thinks that it does. Charis, I won't tell them that you're the member. Here is a pic of the contraption.

Thank you Owl. I'd rather keep it a secret.

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Yes, indeed, Luna Wolf, you definitely qualify as a :That\\\'s so f

Pretty nifty, Jay.

What a cool idea! It's a pigeon pusher outer thingy! LOL I had the same problem when I put Creamsicle and Winnie in my loft. Creamsicle was the smallest male out there and just couldn't hold his own against Junior whos the biggest male. Junior kept chasing Creamsicle out of whatever box he chose. I felt so bad for him. Finally Creamsicle and Winnie nested on the floor. At first it seemed they'd be left alone but then Junior started attacking poor Winnie on the nest. I pulled Junior out of the loft for over a week. Eventually Junior learned to leave them alone. The funny thing is, Creamsicle holds his own against the other birds now including Junior and gets very pushy at times, especially with the ladies. :Rolling eyes: It seems once they get their confidence back they're fine.

Jenaka wrote:

What a cool idea! It's a pigeon pusher outer thingy!

Love your description, Jen. :That\\\'s so f

Jenaka wrote:

What a cool idea! It's a pigeon pusher outer thingy!

That's funny Jen. Thanks for naming it. Wasn't sure what to call it! LOL. Anyway......................it works! It's kinda cute. I think Rags has his eye on little Scrappy, a cute little black and white female with a lot of spunk. But Rascal, a sweet quiet little one with cute little feathered feet has been following him around. Wonder who will end up with who? But first he needs to secure that box! I'd better go check and see if the string needs pulling. It just never stops around here.

Okay... you want to know what's crazy?

CRAZY IS

• Spending more than half the household budget on pets and ferals.

• Not liking the smell of pigeons but having them in the room where I spend most of the day.

• Having to hold my breath while I run into the bathroom to clean their trays and fighting the urge to retch when confronted with one of those 'oh-look-I've-been-in-the-nest-for-hours-and-I-made-this-stinker-specially-for-you' poops...

• Climbing onto the roof with a bad ankle, and spending hours up there to catch injured birds.

• Talking about pigeons ALL the time.

• Pestering the Town Hall for a better deal for ferals.

• Carrying 10 litres of water to the park twice a day when there's no water there. Then standing guard while they drink, so they're not harrassed by kids or dogs.

• Being able to recognise and name dozens of ferals!

• Having over 15,000 photos of pigeons in my computer...

Hm, Teresa...that doesn't sound crazy at all to me.

Good post Teresa. Sounds pretty normal to me, but then, what do I know.

Love your post Teresa

Sounds perfectly normal to me................I suffer from most of the same symptoms

Louise

Ah well, that's because I'm in the right company...
But the non-pigeon people and most of my family think I'm a lost case: no holidays, no social life to speak of, no matching shoes and handbags... of course I prefer my lifestyle, but that's our secret!