Pigeons as Pets Beginners Guide - Episode 9 Bird Safety

In this episode, the Crazy Pigeon Lady discusses common risks and hazards to your pet pigeons/doves and shares her tips on keeping your birds safe.

[echaria]

Although I have had over 10 years experience with my conure, the arrival of a pigeon in our lives has led me on a search for everything I don't know. . As they are free flighted and share a sizeable room with plenty of personal territories and nesting options, and have gotten along quite well, I can see how an accidental injury could easily happen and be potentially lethal. Thank you so very much for the clear, honest, and compassionate information.

[dannywaghorn]

I have acquired a lovely white pet pigeon that I was told was a female so I named her Ava, after watching your video's I now believe it is a male with the cooing and the chest pouting and so I have renamed him Pidge. It's took 4 weeks to get him comfortable with me and let me handle him, although he can be territorial of his cage/perch and can be moody at time's he's great and has already learnt that when I go in the top draw it's for his seed treat's and he gets excited it's crazy how fast he has learnt, anyhow please keep up with the video's they are the only one's on YouTube that are knowledgeable and informative.

[gottagoat]

I have an amazing story to tell . This happened yesterday. A friend brought me a pigeon that fell out of tree and couldnt fly. I put her in a cage in my bedroom to watch closely if she was hurt.Ive never been around pigeons so what I know is what I learned here. She a squeeker, so shes young. After about three days I opened the cage so she could come out. She just hopped around a bit. After three days of this she started flying. She watched everything I do, in the morning I sit at my rolltop desk and drink coffee and play a game on laptop. She started getting on back of chair, then on my shoulder, watching me play the game.Then yesterday, to my shock, she jumped down to the screen and started pecking at the same characters as I was, Ok, this is when I really knew how smart she is. True

[louisea]

Thanks Jem, another great and informative video
i would also mention DOORS - cupboard door, closet doors, toilet/bathroom doors, fridge doors - if your birds are loose in the house then always look and make sure no one is perched on top of a door before you close it, and certainly don't slam doors shut in case someone is trying to fly through. i try to be super vigilant about this and there was still a fridge door incident a couple of weeks ago (he is fine). Also mine love going into the closet (it must be a portal to the mirror universe where the other pigeons live?) and one of them might have been accidently shut in there once for half an hour - actually the same one as the fridge door incident - and he is not the most curious or brave (or clever) one.
anyway, be careful with opening and especially closing doors.

[Rook_Raff]

Thank you I’ve been researching pigeons for almost two years and your videos have been extremely helpful

[tyler]

I rescued a baby pigeon about two months ago, and now I can't let her go. I really love to watch her eatinng, and she loves to make eye contact with me.

You are doing a great job, bless you.nice way of presentation, helpful to beginners & pigeon lovers.May you succeed in your venture.very informative.love from Shimla, India.

[khushnood.]

It was a quite informative video, ..

I am able to tame many wild pigeons, but in our balcony also comes Black Lahore pigeon from past 8 months but he doesn't gets tamed, I mean eat in my hand or not afraid when I am near, though I feed him daily but he is not tamed..
I want to ask is how to tame Lahore pigeon in particular??
Please answer.

[gummypoppa]

Hello! I wanted to ask if there is a problem with using those so called “pigeon pants”.

[Zack-hnui]

Hey hello there miss !! Got a question, i found a pigeon 6 months ago, in the middle of the street and it could not fly, i went to the vet with him and got him checked out and everything was fine but still he would not fly, so i kept him in the house he have a big cage and his free to go where ever he wants in the house, he have a pool, the best food, i take 5hrs a day talking and trying to play with him, he now fly all over the place, but i cant touch him at all, not cooperative at all, makes me and my wife a bit sad, cant put him outside because its winter and here in quebec its-30, dont want him to die, is it possible that some birds are like some humans, just not kind or maybe he hits is head and now have a mental problem, just asking cause i realy want him to be happy !! Thanks for your time and have a great day !!

[danielbothamley]

I'm really interested in getting into pigeon keeping but have been told by a few people I shouldn't because I have asthma do you have any information on if it would be safe to do so I wouldn't want to get them the have to re-home them due to it??

[doml]

i have a question thats not really related but what can i do to prevent my pidgeon from getting sad or distressed when im gone for work or if i take a week vacation? i leave stuffed animals in his cage when i go to work since he likes to preen them

[srpennell]

I feed the pigeons @ my apartment complex and a stranger bird showed up with the flock. She (acts like a she) is banded so I know she belongs to somebody. She also seems interested in humans. But I have no idea how to catch her so I can read her band & find her owner. She’s starting to make friends with the other pigeons, so maybe I shouldn’t find the owner. After all, she did fly away. Any ideas?