I had never seen one until my primary cat (Dropshadow) got one cornered.
Now Dropshadow is not a hunter, like my auxiliary cat, Jasper. I believe Dropshadow just wanted to...you know...
try the hunting thing... so then he suddenly had this baby pigeon cornered and screaming its little beaked head off. To this day I don't know who was more alarmed, Dropshadow or this little bird.
Anyway, we wound up raising this pigeon (I am proud to say, I taught it to fly!

) and we were amazed at how affectionate a pigeon could be....Whenever I would go for a walk, I soon learned that there was a point up the road where "Pidge" could no longer see me, and so would fly over and land on my head! I would walk all over the place with this bird on my shoulder!
They may be "dumb" creatures, but they are also
incredibly charming.