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Maraya1969

(22,486 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 12:30 PM Feb 2020

Trump 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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Trump supporters show their penchant for animal abuse as they glue hats on pigeons. (Original Post) Maraya1969 Feb 2020 OP
I want to know how these hats are taken off or do these poor birds just live with them Maraya1969 Feb 2020 #1
Fucking sadistic assholes dalton99a Feb 2020 #2
More information about the glue and the cruelty. Maraya1969 Feb 2020 #3
Well, their brains are the same size as Trump supporters CanonRay Feb 2020 #4
And they're shitting on the flag. snort Feb 2020 #5

Maraya1969

(22,486 posts)
1. I want to know how these hats are taken off or do these poor birds just live with them
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 12:31 PM
Feb 2020

for the rest of their lives? This should be animal abuse!

Maraya1969

(22,486 posts)
3. More information about the glue and the cruelty.
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 12:34 PM
Feb 2020

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."

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