I didn’t know where to put this!
Had a frantic call from eldest DS while I was collecting second DS from after school club. On his walk home from the bus stop, he’s spotted an injured pigeon sitting on the church wall. He’d tried to catch it to bring it home (we are a family of rescuers) but it flapped under a neighbours hedge and he didn’t want to trespass so walked home and called me.
After chatting it through (which mostly consisted of me reminding him to use his manners), he got the neighbour’s permission to crawl under the hedge (in the dark) and fish the pigeon out, with the neighbour’s readily offered help.
We arrived home to a very injured but cozy looking pigeon in a cat box in our downstairs bathroom. He has straw, fresh water and some porridge (which I have swapped for bird seed). Of course, all of the children are now convinced that he is some sort of dove of peace.
I’ve since been to book club (should be renamed booze club), have come home and checked on him. He’s got a ring, which I’ve reported (the owner lives in Yorkshire!), several bloody holes in his body 
and an injured foot. Plus the whole house smells like pigeon. Which is not entirely unpleasant.
We are going to take him to the vet tomorrow but my AIBU is this. I remember reading a thread on here a while ago and someone said that owners aren’t very sentimental about their birds and will often euthanise rather than spend money on vet bills. Is this true? If so, WIBU to pay for the vet fees and offer him a home here? Obviously I have no idea how that would work and have a husband who isn’t hugely fond of pigeons (weirdo) so we couldn’t have millions of them. But two or three? What are the rules? I don’t want to send him back just for him to ‘disappear’.
He’s white and beautiful, if a little bloody. I can’t help thinking that the racing industry (birds, not horses - don’t get me started on that one) sounds very cruel.