P00ptart@lemmy.world to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-21 month agoOakland firefighters saved a pigeon, and the internet is losing itoaklandside.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up161file-text
arrow-up161external-linkOakland firefighters saved a pigeon, and the internet is losing itoaklandside.orgP00ptart@lemmy.world to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareStarya67@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThey survive just fine, but they were bred to like people and we’re treating them like shit.
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThey were not bred to like people. Snopes even has a whole article on it. https://web.archive.org/web/20260706224441/https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/pigeons-domesticated-instincts/ There are colonies of feral pigeons that don’t come into contact with humans anymore and they’re doing fine
They survive just fine, but they were bred to like people and we’re treating them like shit.
They were not bred to like people. Snopes even has a whole article on it. https://web.archive.org/web/20260706224441/https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/pigeons-domesticated-instincts/
There are colonies of feral pigeons that don’t come into contact with humans anymore and they’re doing fine