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Add to FavoritesI think the real question here is would we rather find a safe and effective method to reduce the number of pigeons procreating, or would we rather "do away" with the animals after the fact...? Personally, I am for effective prevention over potentially cruel slaughter of these beautiful creatures.
Having lived near or in a big city for most of my life, I know first hand what damage can come from a large pigeon population. Their excrement is a mess, their "cooing" is annoying to say the least, and overall, it is a constant battle to keep them from landing in or on your buildings, cars, or property. I'm sure everyone has seen some of the methods that must be employed to keep pigeons from roosting on buildings, including chicken wire, spikes, tar, and much more. Given this, I am sure that most people wouldn't mind a handful of pigeons making a home on their building...a hundred at a time is a much different story. Sadly, I have seen many people take into their own hands their frustrations with these birds, and I have seen more than a handful of them badly injured or killed in the process.
If there was a safe and effective way to reduce the pigeon population through birth control, it would be a winning situation for everyone involved. I understand that many animal activists will be up in arms on this issue, but I implore them to simply sit back and think about what is more humane...a painful and untimely death, or a pigeon who is unable to reproduce?
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While pigeon populations may concern some people, don't we have bigger issues to deal with? I mean really, human population is out of control, yet I haven't seen any articles promoting mandatory birth control for humans. The old idea that we all have a right to reproduce ourselves certainly is way outdated at this point in history. A better mental image would be of loading people onto a small boat to see how many would fit before it sinks. That's our little blue planet folks. Think about it.
If humans would leave the balance of nature alone and stop interfering, animal populations would take care of themselves. We are the only species on the planet that will reproduce itself into extinction. It has been said that man is the only animal on the planet smart enough to build the Empire State Building, and the only one dumb enough to jump off. Sad, but true.
Sci-fi writers who dreamed up alien's view of the human race as a parasite infestation on the planet have hit the nail squarely on the head it appears. Life after humans is a reality that will probably come to pass, if the planet itself survives. We'll all be long gone and certainly not missed by whatever life goes on after us.
It's been fascinating to watch all the end of times programs on television. I'm truly hoping that life will go on here without our kind to muck it up a second time. That the earth will recover from everything our kind have done to it and be as it was in the beginning before the mistake was made that produced us. Maybe humans were an inevitable consequence of evolution, just like the dinosaur. But then we all know what happened to them, don't we?
Birth control for pigeons? Silly question. For humans yes. Heck, we can't even control our pet population by spaying and neutering and we're worried about pigeons? The hawks in our neighborhood have the pigeon population well under control.
It has always confused me to hear people complain about the animals frequenting their suburban yards. They don't want the squirrels coming in their yard and they have a fit about birds making a mess on their cars. They want to keep everything out of the yard. Why did they buy a house? Why didn't they just stay on the 30th floor of a highrise somewhere. They put all sorts of toxic formulas on their yards making their lawns nothing more than a chemically dependant rug. Then they wonder why their kids, playing in the same yards, all have allergies and upper respiratory problems. Gee, go figure.
Birth control for pigeons? Silly, birth control is for humans.
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