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Anyone lost this? On my backstep if it's yours!

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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 18:20

So. Just come in through my back gate to find this on my doorstep....anyone missing a pigeon? Not your average bird, well looked after, has got ring etc but bloody thing won't let me get close enough to get details.

It's currently attacking my pots in hope of food. Am assuming due to high winds been blown off course and is knackered. I have chucked some food out on back step (randomly had some milled linseed in...once a Girl Guide, always a Girl Guide Grin) and shut in Sassycat (cos that wouldn't end well...I'd be hoovering up feathers for weeks!!!)...

So...anyone think they've lost something today? Or have suggestions of what I could do with it? Confused

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/06/2017 07:51

We caught one by putting bird feet into our cat carrier, attaching a string to the door and feeding the string out through the back of the carrier so we could shut the door without approaching.

He turned out to be a champion racing pigeon. We had to keep him for a couple of days over the weekend. dd who was little drew a picture of him. On the Monday FedEx picked him up. I had to put him in the cardboard box they bought. The courier was going nowhere near it. dd put the picture in.

A few days later we had a lovely thank you card and a photo of where he lived :)

Frouby · 06/06/2017 07:50

Come on Gaz! Hope you are ok buddy.

Kez is having a duvet day today. It's a bjt wet and windy for him today.

sufficatedsue · 06/06/2017 07:47

Placemarking for a Gaz update...

SoupDragon · 06/06/2017 07:37

He's definitely a Gary...

BillyDaveysDaughter · 06/06/2017 07:36
Ebayaholic · 06/06/2017 07:34

I was in the same boat and the owner said he'd pick it up 'because he was obliged to' and made it clear that as the bird was injured, he would be euthanising it (not necessarily via a vet).

The local wildlife centre kindly took it from me instead, yours must be injured if it's not flying off I would have thought. Hope he's just tired.

2boytrouble · 06/06/2017 07:33

Crossing those fingers! Hope he's ok

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SassynSane · 06/06/2017 07:30

Morning! Right...just going out to check...keep all wings fingers crossed! 👌

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BillyDaveysDaughter · 06/06/2017 07:27

I LOVE this. I once had a chicken hen that my husband named Gary (after "Gaaaaary" from Only Fools and Horses).

Loving the Kez story and that people care enough to look after any type of stray critter. You restore my faith in human nature.

Is Gary hanging around for his weetabix this morning?

FlappyFish · 06/06/2017 07:19

I want a Kez!

Hope Gaz is ok this morning. Grin

LemonySippet · 06/06/2017 07:17

It must be about weetabix time - any update OP?

picklemepopcorn · 06/06/2017 06:44

Aw! Hope he's ok.

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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 22:50

Sounds like Kez def knows which side is bread is buttered on! Grin Loving the fact he flirts with you, hilarious.

Yes, I'm a bit nervous of finding a dead pidge in the morning. DD will be gutted! If he's ok will keep him in carrier with food and water until hear back from the folk I reported him to. Lots of cats round here (inc my own) so don't want to run the risk of letting him out if he can't fly much at the mo.

Kez call Grin

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Nowthereistwo · 05/06/2017 22:46

I love that you have adopted Kez and take such good care of him

Frouby · 05/06/2017 22:39

He always comes back. We have a Kez call and everything. My neighbours must think we are mad.

The first night we found him we stuck him in our shed with some chick crumbs (had ducklings at the time growing on ready to go the stables) and honesty expected to find a dead pidge he was so weak. I was out really early next morning so left dp to check. He was much brighter apparently so dp left shed door open while he got ready to come and meet me, checked shed briefly and assumed he had flown off.

That night I went to get duck and guinea pig food out and found a very perky pigeon sat on dps bike. Shoo'd him out and thought no more of it until next morning when I went in shed for duck food and got dive bombed by a hungry pigeon. He was hangry to be fair Grin.

Fed him on shed roof for a few days. Then we assumed if we stopped feeding him he would bugger off.

Putting the washing out became a bit of a mission. And he was roosting on either the sky dish or dds window sill. So I relented and bought his coop. He goes out first thing and comes in at night. He will also come down if we shout him in earlier if we are going to be out late but not once it's gone dark.

He spends most of his time trying to fit in with the crows and gulls we get.

And we know hes a boy because if we nod our head at him he courts us back with a lot of billing and cooing.

I did think he might disappear in spring to find a girlfriend but he hasn't so far.

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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 22:23

Kez looks like a very happy boy 😊 and you are lovely to have gone to so much trouble Frouby Star

So have reported details on website (def a racing pigeon) and had msg saying they'll get back to me in next 48 hrs. Now obvs be easier all round if he's reunited with his owner but on the off chance does Kez disappear all day and always come back? Just wondering how it would work....but obviously better he goes home... Must. Not. Get. Attached. To. Someone. Else's. Pigeon!

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Jellykat · 05/06/2017 22:22

We had the same situation last summer, advised the pigeon had stopped off due to knackerdness and hunger, so we fed him for @ a week while he recuperated... then he flew away home (like Peter and Paul) and all was well Smile

Frouby · 05/06/2017 22:09

Awwww bless him. He might be ok in the morning after a kip and some grub. That's what we said about Kez last year.

Here's Kez tonight in his bachelor pad. Happy to be in the warm and dry.

Anyone lost this? On my backstep if it's yours!
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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 21:58

Lets just say don't like that name for RL reasons....will be sticking with Gaz Grin

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kitkatspiderrat · 05/06/2017 21:56

i thought all pigeons were called paul?

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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 21:54

In his temp home....😍

Anyone lost this? On my backstep if it's yours!
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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 21:53

Ok Gaz-gate update! So thought he'd done a runner....flier?....as no longer in my garden after finished eating, so thinking alls well that ends well, hopefully enroute home...

Just take a call from my neighbour, racing pigeon was in her garden, fallen off fence into my garden...explain that's my Gaz & offer help...pic is him after I caught him and put him in temp home. He's now in cat carrier with food and water and have made him comfy and sheltered in my garden. Taken pics of rings but no info on his wings! Will add info to website on previous page and go from there...

He's lovely. Doesn't look injured. Just frightened and knackered!

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EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck · 05/06/2017 20:44

It's not mine! 😆

LilyLongtree · 05/06/2017 19:33

It will have the owners phone number stamped on one of its flight feathers if you extend its wing and look underneath

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SassynSane · 05/06/2017 19:18

Thanks Bama, SW England....not a million miles away from Newport but couldn't see a ring on the one in the pics??

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