Flying rat shot with blowgun dart.
It’s not very often I feel some sort of sympathy for the flying rats of nature. But having been shot with a blowgun during my teenage years, I can empathize with this fortunate little monster.
If I was to start eliminating the pigeon population of Pittsburgh, I would breed peregrine falcons to do my bidding. I have thought long and hard about doing just this for the last eight or so years after seeing one of these grand predators of Pittsburgh’s skies catch a pigeon in mid-flight and tear it to pieces on a window sill of the Ewart building.
Or I would just use my cane. One hit to the head would quickly cull the near brainless bird.
Several Seattle residents have called PETA in the past two weeks to report seeing three injured pigeons fluttering around with needle-like projectiles — about three to four inches long — piercing their heads, said Tori Perry, cruelty case worker for the Norfolk, Virginia-based organization. The birds were spotted on the 1400 block of Third Avenue and at the corner of Third Avenue and Union Street, she added.
The darts were fired from a blow gun, lodging directly behind the birds’ eyes without penetrating their brains, Perry said.
My question is, has PittGirl recently been to Seattle? Also, why did the the shooter not tip the darts with rat poison?
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