Pigeons: Y/N?

Take zem to ze SHOVERS!

Is this even up for discussion? Pigeons are disgusting, stupid, vile, ugly things that spread filth and disease. All pigeons must be rounded up! Bring in more falcons to nest downtown! If we're lucky they'll eat up all the pigeons and then turn their attention to the dreadful parrots of Telegraph Hill...

I like them for their resilience, and their mating dances are funny to watch. Although I agree with the animal control peeps who say people shouldn't feed them, since extra food = extra baby pigeons.

While humans, house-pets and endangered species have rights, pidgeons and vermin do not. Death to the pidgeons!!!

feelthy feathered rats!!

i think we should hold a contest in union sq to see who could punt one over the Dewey Memorial statue in the middle.

Having raised them before, they're quite amazing and intelligent little animals. However, city pigeons tend to be vile, stupid little creatures that just, literally, gum up the works.

On the ecologically symbiotic side of things, they provide ambiance as one of the few animals that live in urban environs, they're great feed for our local endangered Perigrines, hawks and other birds of prey and scavengers, they eat weeds seeds and clean up our food litter and other such type substances (you're a changed person the day you watch a flock of pigeons fighting over a fresh splat of chunky vomit).

Hey, they're a food supply for the falcons, so I'm all for 'em.

I'd like to take you now on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget, perhaps, for a while, your drab wretched lives. Here is a song all about springtime in general, and in particular about one of the many delightful pastimes that the coming of spring affords us all.

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel* or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.

Thank you!

pigeons are much less offensive than the homeless!

mark me down for killing the disgusting vermin.

I have never met an intelligent pidgeon. I've had a couple try and land in my food as I was eating outside. and after making threatening stomps with my foot they still try and creep back toward me...as if I'm going to let them eat my food.

"You know that these critters are listed as "squab" on a food menu, yes?"

I had squab once at Quince. It was disgusting. Raw and stringy. The claw was still attached. I think I'm going to be a bit sick.

N

this is the most hilarious post ever. pigeons are disgusting and when they get too close to me my foot shoots out to kick. it's a reflex.

i'd much rather have pigeons around than the homeless. they have much more of a right to be here and to breed, imo. the homeless are the really vile creatures.

People who feed the pigeons end up also feeding the rats without wings.

I got shit on by a pigeon once, near Civic Center Plaza, which is apparently one of their local HQs.

From that day forward, I vowed revenge on their whole species.

You've made a very powerful enemy, pigeons. Watch your back.

I don't get the extreme hatred people have towards pigeons. They mind their own business, I mind mine.

The damn pigeons that sit on my roof outside my bathroom window torture my poor cat. She does the death rattle and whips her tail around desperate to kill those stupid, ugly birds and their damn cooing sound.

I called Animal Care and Control and they said it was against the law to kill pigeons. So stupid. They are rats with wings. I can't imagine how many dead pigeons are on my roof wasting away in layers and layers of pigeon feces.

I called Animal Care and Control and they said it was against the law to kill pigeons.

You know that you can put spikes on your roof, they'll go away... seen them used on BART, great way to save on cleaning costs. Only way to get rid of dried pigeon poop is to use a high pressure hose.

i thought most of you fine folks liked animals?!

I like pigeons in general. The cooing is nice and they can be prety. However most of the pigeons downtown are in sorry shape. They have mangled legs, infections and unkempt feathers and probably very sick. In general, I think that the best thing to do would be to humanely euthanize the animals that need it and limit breeding in the rest.

pigeons are a disease vectors, their proponents mere pigeon disease enablers.

I got up at the crack of ass this morning, and noticed that someone's mexican dinner doggie bag failed to make it home. When I got back 90 minutes later, it was a pigeon trough, and 90 minutes after that 2 pigeons were taking turns pecking at congealed refried beans still in the shape of their container.

Foul.

We need 10,000 hungry falcons to come in hear and thin out the ranks.