09/26/05, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Middle of nowhere along the Rim, Arizona
Posts: 3,100
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Given the WATER that most city pigeons eat -- i.e. water out of gutters, puddles on pavement, etc. -- is likely to be contaminated with petrochemicals from cars, I'd be very reluctant to eat them as they'd have consumed a wide variety of toxins since birth. Also, unless you have a mist net or a shotgun, I can't think of an easy way to bring them down.
In a survival situation? Fido and Fifi running loose on the street would be a viable food source. I love animals as much as the next person, but in a survival situation where it was kill to eat -- particularly if Fido and Fifi were starting to run in packs -- food for thought, as it were.
Leva
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Originally Posted by Grandmotherbear
Thank you all for your responses. As I mentioned, this was hypothetical for a survival type situation. Yes, Don I also believe a pressure cooker is a survival tool. That, and a sunoven.
It seems the deadly poisonous city pigeon that kills hapless diners is indeed an urban myth (I am however, gonna try some of these recipes with bobwhites from Winn Dixie!)
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