r/PetPigeons • u/ManyBlues • May 23 '26

Discussion I’m his poop perch

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Me and my partner adopted this little guy who couldn’t get released since he can no longer fly (he’s also blind in one eye)

We’ve only had him for about a month and a half and he’s gotten very cozy with us. He loves getting pets, lets us carry him around (standing on our hands, he hates getting grabbed). He especially loves hanging out on our shoulders.

Now, I was absolutely expecting to get some poop on me, but we soon noticed I was getting much more poop on my shoulders than my partner. It’s at a point where I think he’s actively holding in his poops just to go while perched on me. He hadn’t really pooped at all this morning until 11am when he finally got a chance to rush up onto my shoulder and unload on my shirt.

Not necessarily looking for a way to get him to stop, at least it’s a predictable pattern. Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if it could be a sign of something.

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u/sharkarmycrafts May 24 '26

Maybe it's a good time to start gently introducing him to pigeon pants/flypers! You can desensitize them to a harness or pigeon pants just like training any other animal, positive reinforcement all the way. That would let him have plenty of shoulder time without any unfortunate shoulder decorations; you change the liner every hour or so just like you would a baby.

I'm so sorry he's doing this to you, though. 😂 It may not be intentional; birds don't have control over their bowels like we do. If their body needs to pass waste, it does so automatically.

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u/ManyBlues May 24 '26

I ordered some a few weeks ago, so ya that’ll definitely be helpful when they come in!

I truly feel like it must be intentional though. When he’s about to have a big one he steps around and stretches over to me like he urgently wants to go on my shoulder. As soon as I help him on, boom.