They can make very good pets. Especially if you hand feed them. A lot of breeds need to be hand fed in order to raise them because they have shorter beaks or shorter faces. But yes, pigeons can ...

All those activities have created domestic breeds unable to survive in the ... The group makes the counterintuitive case that rescued pigeons make an ideal pet. Got allergies?

Though the import of foreign breeds is now strictly prohibited, avid pigeon fanciers have retained the bloodline of those breeds that were available here many years ago, Selvam says.

a mix of fancy pigeon breeds, get treated to more affection and attention than most pet cats or dogs. When the birds wake up at around 7am, they bask under a special avian light for 30 minutes ...

"Quite a few breeds are in danger," Wang said. "Some may have already become extinct." Wang once asked a photographer to take photos of native Chinese pet pigeons in the 1980s. But their several ...