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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump supporters show their penchant for animal abuse as they glue hats on pigeons.
A group calling itself P.U.T.I.N., Pigeons United To Interfere Now, is claiming responsibility for the MAGA-hat-wearing pigeons in Las Vegas. One of the pigeons was adorned with a Donald Trump-style wig.Pigeons United To Interfere Now
Twenty-five pigeons were released, 24 of them wearing hats and one donning a Trump-style wig, the group said Thursday in an email to NBC News.
"Most have returned. We expect to see the rest tonight or tomorrow," the group said.
While the stunt has drawn some laughs, Mariah Hillman, who runs Lofty Hopes, a Las Vegas pigeon rescue organization, called the MAGA stunt "animal cruelty."
In December, videos of three pigeons wearing miniature red cowboy hats went viral after they were seen on Las Vegas streets.
"It started here with the press making fun of it, the police didn't do anything about it, and now it's grown into this, so when is it going to stop, and who's going to do something about it?" Hillman said Thursday.
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Maraya1969
(22,486 posts)for the rest of their lives? This should be animal abuse!
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Maraya1969
(22,486 posts)The pigeons are wearing the hats with the help of eyelash glue.
"It doesn't matter what kind of glue it is. It is still, in fact, cruelty, because you are impairing their vision," Hillman said, adding that her organization rescues many birds, such as wedding-release pigeons and racing pigeons, that are trained to return to their flocks.
"There's not always a guarantee that they'll return, because they can get injured or killed before that happens."