Say an enthusiastic bird ends up in your bedroom. Good times, unless you're married and it's not your wife. Or you're exclusively attracted to men or are asexual. Or it's just a pigeon that flew in through your open window.

Well a beautiful, magestic rock dove nearly flew in through my open bedroom window today. It's not the first time I've had them fly straight at it. I googled how to get rid of a pigeon, but didn't get any answers.

I also know of a guy who left his windows open when he moved house and some pigeons came in and sh%= all over the place.

Answering honestly, what WOULD you do if a pigeon flew into your room RIGHT NOW? Maybe it flies around like crazy, then it walks on the floor. What you gonna do? I have no idea, but I'd probably try throwing my blanket on it and then hope it's heavy enough to stop it flying, grab it and try to drop it out the window (on second thought if you dropped the blanket it might not be able to fly and would get hurt. So dropping the pigeon while holding the end of the blanket might be the way). Or maybe I'd realise during that that the front door is a better option. Possibly I'd accidentally let it get away and then be in an even worse situation with it roaming the whole house.

And following on, what SHOULD you do? Should you just wait for it to calm down and slowly go to grab it, hold it and carry it to the window, lift it up and drop it out? Or are there common household items that are brilliant for safely capturing and releasing pigeons?
Or should you just call some charity? Or the council's animal control department? What should someone who's totally unable to grab and release the pigeon do? Maybe someone too disabled. Or they just can't grab it.


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