[from occupied ga]

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.

[Daffynition]

Yes. If predators are killing your livestock, you may protect.

He got caught. and the fact that he was told: **his selfish concern for his birds and his hobby deprived others of the opportunity to view migrating birds of prey**, sounds like BS.

Keeping of homing pigeons is a generational thing. Bushwick/Brooklyn, NY

[SgtHooper]

Obviously, the “racing enthusiast” needs faster pigeons. :-)

[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.

[BobinIL]

Hawks are an unmitigated predator that accounts for the decline of game species such as Pheasants, rabbits and quail. Protected status should be revoked and they should be hunted the same as foxes and coyotes.