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To think this pigeon should get in the damn cage

52 replies

kat360 · 17/06/2016 12:59

We have had a pigeon hanging around our garden for the past week. He's got a blue band around his foot so he's not wild. He's not hurt and can fly, I've been feeding him.
I've got to try and catch him to read his ID ring. So I've rigged up a dog cage with food in that will close when a rope is pulled. Aibu to think it should get in the cage already?Grin

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aquamarine2 · 17/06/2016 16:01

I have had a wild pigeon in my garden for the last 6 months or so. He is on the fence, on top of swing or roof every morning when I leave for work and there again when I return in the evening. My partner works from home and says he is there most of the day. We are both very fond of him and miss him when he goes to stretch his wings! Even the dogs are used to him now! He is called Pidge

hudyerwheesht · 17/06/2016 16:10

Update, OP!

knittedslippersx2 · 17/06/2016 16:14

That's quite some set up you've got there!

StarryIllusion · 17/06/2016 16:16

If he is a racing pigeon it will be used to being handled. Just pick it up. I've picked wild pigeons up plenty of times so a tame one should be no trouble.

FrayedHem · 17/06/2016 16:19
Some motivation for you OP.
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kat360 · 17/06/2016 16:24

No pigeon yet! He's back on the windowsill, He flies off every time I try to open the window.

My Dh has just phoned from dubi to sing catch the pigeon at me and tell me that they are putting bets on weather I can catch it or not! MIL told him, 5yo dd told him to stop telling everyone as they would know we were weird!

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FireTruckOhFireTruck · 17/06/2016 16:32

How about now, is he in yet? Grin

Nousernameforme · 17/06/2016 16:38

Aye it will be a mate of pauls wanting to get beach body ready Grin

LetThereBeCupcakes · 17/06/2016 16:45

Ask him if he knows Paul. It'll be a good ice breaker. You need to build up a rapport.

Tinkfromlovejoy · 17/06/2016 16:54

What are you planning on doing with that racquet? Wink not sure waving that behind him will help.

Sometimes we get ringed ones, I give them some seed and a saucer of water and they fly off. Have to remember to lock the cats up for a few hours though. Not sure a hawk would take an adult pigeon?

Am I being fanciful, or would a pigeon be happier living undisturbed in your garden, rather than being sent back to wherever to live in cage except for when he's racing? I've not really any clue how racing ones are kept or what their lives are like tbh? I say keep him Smile

Ratbagcatbag · 17/06/2016 17:31

Racing ones are sent out daily to exercise and then they land back on the roof of house and bribed down with seed. It's not the first pidge back that wins its the first caught so they need to not only land near by they need to come down into the loft really easily. Hence them being handled a lot. Once a week they get driven varying distances to practice getting home.

powershowerforanhour · 17/06/2016 17:37

Try creeping up on it with a strawberry net

ConkersDontScareSpiders · 18/06/2016 12:54

Did you catch it op??

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kat360 · 18/06/2016 17:37

Nope, he's still out there. He's on top of the swing set looking at me! Confused

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EveryoneElsesMumSaidYes · 18/06/2016 17:44

Drat and double drat!!

To think this pigeon should get in the damn cage
ConkersDontScareSpiders · 18/06/2016 17:53

I feel quite invested in this now.coulsnt you get the kids to sneak up on him and herd it into the cage?

pigsDOfly · 18/06/2016 19:52

Maybe he's hoping you'll go outside and give him a push on the swing.

Given that you're feeding him well and offering him a cozy little house he probably thinks he's found a nice new mummy Grin

EveryoneElsesMumSaidYes · 18/06/2016 20:11
Halo
To think this pigeon should get in the damn cage
OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/06/2016 20:15

We rescued a champion racer from a long way away. The owner was lovely, sent us a card and a present for dd who had drawn a picture of the pigeon and enclosed it in the carrier with him when he was returned.
It was lovely and I still get a warm glow.

FurryLittleTwerp · 18/06/2016 20:26

I always think pigeons look so stupid, but they can't be with all that navigating and the Dicken medals & so on

We had a pair of fat, waddling wood-pigeons coming to visit for a while. One day they brought a fat, waddling youngster - looked like some sort of fat family at a park Grin

NotMyMoney · 18/06/2016 20:28

We rescued a race pigeon when I was little brought it in for a few days till the weather changed, me and my sister added a note to its leg and got a lovely letter from the owner Grin

We live near a pigeon owner he has 4 double sized sheds full of them and shouts at them ALL day every single day and hits them with a stick to get them back in he doesn't even race them

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kat360 · 19/06/2016 16:11

Update: We caught the pigeon! My trap worked, have got his number from his tag. Reported it as a stray to the rpra, if I worked it out right he's a young one. His tag was registered this year.

The kids have called him Frank.

To think this pigeon should get in the damn cage
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LetThereBeCupcakes · 19/06/2016 16:41

He looks REALLY unimpressed!

londonrach · 19/06/2016 16:53

Op someone on my local fb information page has just caught a pigeon too. Glad he safe and hopefully find his owner soon

NeedACleverNN · 19/06/2016 19:03

Is it just me or does that pidgeon look like he is saying "you better sleep with one eye open tonight"