Pigeon Talk

[biophiliac]

Trust me.. mine has its drawbacks.

The pluses outweigh the minusus though, don't you think? I love the height of the ceilings where I live.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

The pluses outweigh the minusus though, don't you think? I love the height of the ceilings where I live.

They do ... until winter strikes..

 

[CCUK]

The pluses outweigh the minusus though, don't you think? I love the height of the ceilings where I live.

So do the spiders!

 

[Serin]

Maybe.. dh is talking about different options on where we can put a small loft closer to the dome..
And Ive been "talking up" house pigeons...

They are WONDERFUL little characters!!! And they grow on people!

I live with my 70 yr old great aunt and maintain the house/yard and everything for her. She isn't utterly dependent and still drives but she cannot really keep up caring for a home on her own anymore, or remembering to take her medications etc so that is where I come in. But I digress... she has come to absolutely adore my pigeon. You see... I adopted her when my aunt was visiting her sister across the country so she didn't know about Olive for the first two weeks. So she was definitely surprised,to say the least, when she came home and Olive was sitting on the arm rest of her chair! (granted, I have a lot of other smaller birds, so it was not a total surprise - and I knew she likes my other birds so this was not a total random thing.) She had the impression pigeons were dirty, messy, undesirable birds though. But Olive changed her view completely in a matter of about a day.

So the other night I overheard her talking with a friend on the phone about Olive, about how adorable and sweet she is... just raving! I assume the friend was replying with some concern about mess, because I heard my aunt reply "None at all, he's got her paper trained!"

And she's really pretty good about that. On the front porch, there was an old door leaned up against a wall, and Olive had taken to sitting on the door out there for periods during the day. This morning I decided to take the old door out and put it in the basement, and was preparing to find and clean up a few weeks worth of mess behind it because, after all, I had trained her to go potty on top of the other door and figured she wasn't going to distinguish one from another. All I found were feathers though. She hadn't pooped there once! She knows to only go on the other door, which I leave swung open above the newspapers.

Sadly Olive will not let my aunt pet her. She can call her and she will come and she will sit on her hand or on her lap, but I am the only one she solicits pets from. Unlike a cat or a dog, they reserve that sort of contact to their "mate", which for Olive, has become me.

 

[biophiliac]

They do ... until winter strikes..

OMG yes! I remeber how the first few winters it was very cold, impossible to heat properly. We now have those overhead furnaces* like are used in a shop or garage. A large one in the major part of the building and a smaller one in my little apartment keep it very toasty.

*Trade name = Hot Dawg

 

[Serin]

Here she is visiting some of my canaries. She gets along with the smaller birds but is indifferent. She prefers human company.

 

[biophiliac]

So do the spiders!

They keep to their territory and I keep to mine.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

They are WONDERFUL little characters!!! And they grow on people!

I live with my 70 yr old great aunt and maintain the house/yard and everything for her. She isn't utterly dependent and still drives but she cannot really keep up caring for a home on her own anymore, or remembering to take her medications etc so that is where I come in. But I digress... she has come to absolutely adore my pigeon. You see... I adopted her when my aunt was visiting her sister across the country so she didn't know about Olive for the first two weeks. So she was definitely surprised,to say the least, when she came home and Olive was sitting on the arm rest of her chair! (granted, I have a lot of other smaller birds, so it was not a total surprise - and I knew she likes my other birds so this was not a total random thing.) She had the impression pigeons were dirty, messy, undesirable birds though. But Olive changed her view completely in a matter of about a day.

So the other night I overheard her talking with a friend on the phone about Olive, about how adorable and sweet she is... just raving! I assume the friend was replying with some concern about mess, because I heard my aunt reply "None at all, he's got her paper trained!"

And she's really pretty good about that. On the front porch, there was an old door leaned up against a wall, and Olive had taken to sitting on the door out there for periods during the day. This morning I decided to take the old door out and put it in the basement, and was preparing to find and clean up a few weeks worth of mess behind it because, after all, I had trained her to go potty on top of the other door and figured she wasn't going to distinguish one from another. All I found were feathers though. She hadn't pooped there once! She knows to only go on the other door, which I leave swung open above the newspapers.

Sadly Olive will not let my aunt pet her. She can call her and she will come and she will sit on her hand or on her lap, but I am the only one she solicits pets from. Unlike a cat or a dog, they reserve that sort of contact to their "mate", which for Olive, has become me.

Im glad she enjoys Olive! That's great!
Olive is deffinetly a smart girl!

OMG yes! I remeber how the first few winters it was very cold, impossible to heat properly. We now have those overhead furnaces* like are used in a shop or garage. A large one in the major part of the building and a smaller one in my little apartment keep it very toasty.

*Trade name = Hot Dawg

We're hoping to have more insulating finished by next winter, every bit helps just cant get it all done at once.. but eventually I hope it'll hold the heat in and cold out!

Here she is visiting some of my canaries. She gets along with the smaller birds but is indifferent. She prefers human company. View attachment 1703776

They keep to their territory and I keep to mine.

 

[CacklingRanch]

Houston we have a problem.






























The boys used their hard earned money to buy more pigeons.

 

[biophiliac]

They are WONDERFUL little characters!!! And they grow on people!

I live with my 70 yr old great aunt and maintain the house/yard and everything for her. She isn't utterly dependent and still drives but she cannot really keep up caring for a home on her own anymore, or remembering to take her medications etc so that is where I come in. But I digress... she has come to absolutely adore my pigeon. You see... I adopted her when my aunt was visiting her sister across the country so she didn't know about Olive for the first two weeks. So she was definitely surprised,to say the least, when she came home and Olive was sitting on the arm rest of her chair! (granted, I have a lot of other smaller birds, so it was not a total surprise - and I knew she likes my other birds so this was not a total random thing.) She had the impression pigeons were dirty, messy, undesirable birds though. But Olive changed her view completely in a matter of about a day.

So the other night I overheard her talking with a friend on the phone about Olive, about how adorable and sweet she is... just raving! I assume the friend was replying with some concern about mess, because I heard my aunt reply "None at all, he's got her paper trained!"

And she's really pretty good about that. On the front porch, there was an old door leaned up against a wall, and Olive had taken to sitting on the door out there for periods during the day. This morning I decided to take the old door out and put it in the basement, and was preparing to find and clean up a few weeks worth of mess behind it because, after all, I had trained her to go potty on top of the other door and figured she wasn't going to distinguish one from another. All I found were feathers though. She hadn't pooped there once! She knows to only go on the other door, which I leave swung open above the newspapers.

Sadly Olive will not let my aunt pet her. She can call her and she will come and she will sit on her hand or on her lap, but I am the only one she solicits pets from. Unlike a cat or a dog, they reserve that sort of contact to their "mate", which for Olive, has become me.

I enjoy every post on Olive's life as a house pigeon. Please keep them coming!