Meet The Real Life Pigeon Lady

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Find out why she puts them in "sock jail" ❤️ We talked to Frill about the sweet reason she catches (and releases) so many pigeons, and how she's determined to change people's perceptions of the overlooked bird!

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00:00if you look at it from a distance it looks like i'm just hanging out with pigeons but i'm not

00:10just hanging out with them i'm actually there to help them a lot of people don't know this

00:14but pigeons commonly get something called string foot string foot is where pigeons get tangled up

00:21in hair or string and it gets tangled up on their feet and it tightens and it can

00:26cut the circulation off to their toes or their entire foot the reason why pigeons suffer with

00:32string foot is because they were a domesticated species we abandoned them and they rely on humans

00:39to survive so they're forced to live in these big cities with us that's covered in litter and it

00:45just gets tangled in their feet it's a man-made issue and you wouldn't even notice it unless you

00:50the time to have a look he's in suck jail

00:54come on bro it's all right

01:01he's ready to go

01:06they're actually quite easy to catch i slowly approach them and sprinkle the seed

01:15above them and then once you're just close enough you grab them pigeons when they escape

01:20they just fly up so if you're already right above them they can't really go anywhere

01:35once i catch the pigeon i put them in what i like to call sock jail which makes it so that they don't

01:40squirm around and it's easier for me to remove the string off their feet

01:51sometimes i also use a rag to cover their face as well

01:55they just go completely calm and they just accept it

01:58and then they're still and i'm able to remove the string

02:02sometimes it's really simple the string hasn't caused any damage yet so it just takes a second

02:07you just cut it off and let them go sometimes it's starting to cut into the skin those are the

02:13ones that take a little bit longer after i've cut the string off it's time to let them go back out

02:19into the wild not always there just for string foot i genuinely really love spending time with them

02:32and sitting with them i find it really therapeutic

02:38people always say i'm like the pigeon lady from home alone too and it's a compliment as well

02:43they're just really cute obviously but they're kind of underdogs you know there aren't people

02:50looking out for them the same way that there are people looking out for dogs and cats for example

02:55right like people just overlook them if there's a pigeon dying in the street people will just keep

03:00walking and so i feel like they need somebody to look out for them

03:23they remember me that i feed them all the time and it just makes me really happy to know that

03:28there is somebody that they trust

03:35i just really hope that when people see me with these birds that we can start to change

03:42the public perception of these animals because they're not dirty they're really lovely and they're

03:48really kind some people feed stray cats and i feed pigeon i love it

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