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To: allen592

Start a business selling homing pigeons to people who set them free.

Come back the next day and I do it all again.


11 posted on 12/11/2023 2:40:08 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

“Start a business selling homing pigeons to people who set them free.”

Not sale, rental. Just like beer.


22 posted on 12/11/2023 3:13:33 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Vermont Lt

I used to sell homers to the local hmong bird market and hmong would buy a dozen for a funeral feast and always let one go. It would come back with little trinkets and decorations on it. And back to the market next week.


23 posted on 12/11/2023 3:18:08 PM PST by Pocketdoor
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To: Vermont Lt

I had a rescued homer for about 10 years. It was found down, near my workplace.

I did a lot of research trying to find an owner - the bird had a band and I was able to trace it to the seller and to the person who bought it. Numerous calls to the asshole who had purchased it, and I received no response; but of course the answering machine always said, ‘God Bless!’

During the process I learned from local pigeon fanciers that there are unscrupulous people who buy homing pigeons cheap from breeders, don’t bother to train them, and then charge big prices to sell ‘release’ to people for weddings and funerals.

These people don’t care what happens to the birds later. Homers are raised in captivity, the buyer never trains them to home, and the birds can’t survive.

(’God Bless’ my ass!)


27 posted on 12/11/2023 3:36:39 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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