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    BioTech
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      Dave, my cat, just brought a pigeon in.

      After prizing it from his jaws I found out it was still alive (he usually kills them).

      There are no serious wounds as far as I can see but I’m not sure if either wings are broken as it did not attempt to fly when I got it outside. It may just be down to shock though.

      I’ve put it under a large cardboard box in the back garden and balanced some heavy objects on top so the cats can’t get at it, in the hope that it might chill out.

      When I check on it tomorrow if it doesn’t fly what should I do? I don’t really want to kill the poor thing but if that’s the only option I’d prefer to do it myself than let the cats at it. I’d ring the RSPCA but I would have thought they’d just kill it after taking it away under the pretence they would look after it. Plenty of pigeons about after all, and they are considered vermin.

      Any ideas?

      #1076776
      globalloon
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        kill it

        or give it to your cat to kill

        or get pissed and kill it

        or play disco at it while it’s under the box and see how it responds

        #1076778
        raverbaby
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          if it dont fly the best thing to do is kill it i am afraid, just make sure its quick, ringing the nek can often be messy if you are overenthusiastic, goodluk

          #1076771
          BioTech
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            globalloon wrote:
            kill it

            or give it to your cat to kill

            or get pissed and kill it

            Maybe I’ll use a chainsaw :apathy:

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            or play disco at it while it’s under the box and see how it responds

            Hey, I’m not sadistic.

            #1076768
            Techno Viking
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              eeew

              #1076780
              Raj
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                hitting its head off a hard surface or using a knife worked for me

                [to be fair they usaully fly off only to be caught and killed again w/in 24 hrs..]:get_you::get_you:

                #1076777
                missMushed
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                  i found a ring neck dove once on the road that had been hit by a cra on my way to work, so i placed it somewhere easy to find and when i was at work called the rspca, they asked me if it was a pigeon and i told them it wasnt (although they didnt beleive me at first assuming i had no idea what i was talking about and were quite rude!) but they wouldnt have sent someone if it was, got back later and it had gone, whether it had flown away of been rescued i dont know.

                  Just asked my dad tho, hes an expert on killin animals (he used to live in a tent, living off the wildlife….) And he says the best way is to ring its neck, hold the pigeon with one hand and with the other hand hold behind its neck, lift its head up and then pull it away from the body.

                  Hope this helps (and hope you dont need the help!)

                  #1076769
                  Techno Viking
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                    missMushed wrote:
                    i found a ring neck dove once on the road that had been hit by a cra on my way to work, so i placed it somewhere easy to find and when i was at work called the rspca, they asked me if it was a pigeon and i told them it wasnt (although they didnt beleive me at first assuming i had no idea what i was talking about and were quite rude!) but they wouldnt have sent someone if it was, got back later and it had gone, whether it had flown away of been rescued i dont know.

                    Just asked my dad tho, hes an expert on killin animals (he used to live in a tent, living off the wildlife….) And he says the best way is to ring its neck, hold the pigeon with one hand and with the other hand hold behind its neck, lift its head up and then pull it away from the body.

                    Hope this helps (and hope you dont need the help!)

                    I ran a duck over and broke it’s neck on a bike when I was 8. Scarred me for life!

                    #1076770
                    JE5
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                      Site wrote:
                      I ran a duck over and broke it’s neck on a bike when I was 8. Scarred me for life!

                      Haha, shit, me and a mate were sitting on a park bench one day and some guy rode by on a push bike, next thing I heard what sounded like he’d wrapped up or something, looked round and there was just a mass of feathers, the bloke riding off as though nothing had happened and a pigeon having what looked like some kind of fit for a minute before it gave up the ghost. I was just on my way over to wring it’s neck but luckily it died pretty quick. Then walked out of the park to be met by yet another cloud of feathers of another pigeon that had just been ran over. The summary, it wasn’t a good day for flying rats…

                      #1076772
                      BioTech
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                        Had a look at it about 5 this morning. Didn’t seem to be in pain and seemed fairly happy although it looked like it didn’t want to (or couldn’t) fly.

                        Didn’t really want to kill it because if I had a small chance of surviving and I was given the option to be let loose or be killed then I’d definitely go for the let loose option and take my chances (that and the fact I’m a softie when it comes to animals). So I let it go in a shrubbed area out the back of mine.

                        No doubt it will have been caught and eaten by now but at least it had a slim chance. If it had of looked like it was in pain or had any obvious wounds then I probably would have killed it and then stressed about it for the rest of the week.

                        #1076774
                        binge
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                          Break its neck dude. It’s the quickest and most painless way. Hold the body in your left hand, head in the right and give it a proper hard tug.

                          Then get a knife, cut a slit down the middle of its chest, pull apart the skin and feathers and cut out the breast meat. Give it a good wash, then slice it up and stick it in a pie. Also good is pheasant and rabbit (both easily found as roadkill) and hey presto- game pie! Bloody lovely.

                          People may not like this idea, but I believe that if you can’t kill and gut your own food, then you have no right eating meat!

                          I hit a pigeon with my car on the way to work once. I had to stop to see if it was dead or not. As it wasn’t, I had to break its neck on the side of the road, put it out of its pain. At that point a woman and her daughter drove past, and i’ve never had such evil stares!

                          #1076775
                          binge
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                            Missed out on the chance of a good meal there dude!

                            #1076773
                            BioTech
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                              I think I’ll pass on pigeon. I couldn’t be doing with blood and guts at 5 in the morning anyway :crazy_fre

                              #1076779
                              raverbaby
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                                binge wrote:
                                People may not like this idea, but I believe that if you can’t kill and gut your own food, then you have no right eating meat!

                                Too right had! to spend most of my morning skinning and gutting a muntjack.

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