| Author: Canoe.ca | Title: In the News - Fanciers pigeons pass test |
| Date: 2005-01-09 15:30:58 | Uploaded by: webmaster |
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Worries about poop and property values haven't stopped a Windsor Park man's home pigeon facility from flying. Dan Kinnear expects to soon launch trained birds from the yard of his Cottonwood Road house after a city hall committee gave the all-clear yesterday for takeoff -- despite neighbours who told councillors their concerns about droppings, noise and a potential pigeon population explosion.
Kinnear, who has lived with his wife at the house for three months, said his new neighbours shouldn't worry.
"They're controlled and trained to land on my pigeon coop so people shouldn't have to put up with birds crapping all over," Kinnear, 55, told The Sun.
The former Toronto resident was given permission to operate his home aviary -- complete with 10-foot-by-eight-foot coop housing up to 30 racing and show pigeons -- for a year as a sort of trial run, after which city officials will analyse its ability to abide by a pigeon control bylaw.
STANDARDS
Yes, there really is a pigeon control bylaw -- and Kinnear insists its standards on cleanliness and privacy will be followed to the letter.
Neighbours, however, are less confident that the birds will behave -- and say they may want to fly the coop when the pigeons become airborne.
Leslie Malo, a mother of young children, said she wants a guarantee that the aviary's population won't boom through breeding.
"Pigeons poop everywhere. Let's say five years down the road, we think we'd like to sell our house. Potential buyers may see that as something they don't want."
Kinnear, a retired transit bus driver and subway operator, has pigeons in northwestern Ontario but none yet in Winnipeg.
Once he moves them into his yard, said provincial government inspector Mike Leblanc, the birds will likely mean no danger to anyone.
Coun. Bill Clement (Charleswood-Tuxedo) pointed out that other local pigeon keepers have posed no problems and suggested home coops and droppings are not a threat.
"You'd have to be in a closed and confined area with a huge amount of this stuff, which is evidently vacuumed up every day," Clement argued.
Winnipeg Sun - Fri, January 7, 2005
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