[Sans-Culotte]

I gotta say I’m a bit conflicted over this one. On one hand pigeons are dirty disgusting loathsome flying rats and if the guy were my neighbor I’d really hate it, but on the other they are actual livestock and the hawks (predators) were killing the guy’s livestock. This bit about letting predators kill your livestock while you are forbidden by law to protect your property is just plain wrong.

Wasn't there a way to better protect the pigeons? If I had a henhouse that a fox was raiding, I'd shore up the defenses of the henhouse rather than kill foxes.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Wasn’t there a way to better protect the pigeons? If I had a henhouse that a fox was raiding, I’d shore up the defenses of the henhouse rather than kill foxes.”

Exactly. You’d never kill all the foxes.

[from occupied ga]

Wasn't there a way to better protect the pigeons?

Maybe, but my understanding is that the whole point of owning pigeons (and I'd never want to own any) is to let them fly around (and let them crap all over everything in the vicinity).