06-12-2018, 07:39 PM
I owned a collared dove for a while once ... that bird never once showed any sign of having a personality or even more than minimal awareness. I'd put pigeons in the same category--they are just slightly different versions of the same bird.
On the other hand, the Asian Blue Quail I had was an amazing pet. He had a roomful of personality, craved physical attention, and would come when called after the first hand-feeding. Not that he was entirely right in the head; he had some compulsive behaviors, like running along the wall back and forth for hours, and occasionally attempting to murder me, and he lacked any sense of danger involved with wriggling under my feet. I loved that little guy.
My mom was keeping a parakeet for a while and she used to gush about how affectionate he was; he'd fly onto her shoulder and cuddle up under her chin.
Maybe a pigeon or dove would be a nice pet if it were raised for that.
