06-13-2018, 09:30 AM
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13 hours ago, threelegs said:
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.
I have had contact with pigeons and birds in general and I've seen they have quite some personality, it's just not as complex and driven as that of other mammals, but if you are a pigeon zoo, I guess you like those little things; parrots on the other hand, they are very smart, I'd say of the smartest of the birbs; and if you grow one, specially a big parrot, trust me, they'll fall in love with you; even parrot owners admit this.
Probably owls, eagles and hawks are even smarter; I've seen condors too which seem damn smart; and I was in so much fear since they could easily pick me up and fly me away even as a 50kg teen, they are HUGE; I never felt like prey so much.
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13 hours ago, heavyhorse said:
LOL. Sounds remarkably like most of the cats I've been acquainted with. With apology to Cat.
[img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/sad.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=":(" width="20" /> But I only walk around your feet sometimes to mark you, and only attempt to murder you when I am mildly angery at the worlds.
