"A left handed Pigeon"

Okay, so you think that Pigeons don’t have hands, well you are wrong, because this one does. His name is: Homer Pigeon and he is pure white with blue eyes,  you might want to say he is an Albino.

He keeps his hands tucked in under his wings when not flying, Homer once tried to be a carrier pigeon, but it didn’t work out for him. The message is usually fastened to a pigeon’s leg, in a small container, but Homer had hands and he wanted to carry the messages in his hands. But for a number of reasons, he would always drop or lose them. So Homer was used as a distraction, He served as a message carrier in the battle fields, when one was needed. Homer has earned a number of medals for dangerous assignment that he has carried out. He has been wounded a few times and awarded the Blue heart, three or four times.

When Homer is needed, he is taken to where ever that is, Because as you know, pigeons are released for a place where they have been taken to, and they will return home. A specially trained solder travels with him. The solder is a sergeant and Homer holds the rank of Captain.

Captain Pigeon was a retarded pigeon and was raised by a chicken named Bertha. He could never learn to fly until a chicken hawk snatched him away from a chicken coop, Homer was too small for the hawk to eat and he did look kind of funny. Homer fell out of the hawk’s nest a number of times and the hawk would pick him up and fly him back to the nest,

One day homer fell and he had a small branch in his hands and it was bothering his wings, so he spread  his wings and he was gladding along and he made a perfect landing a few hundred yards away.  He had learned to fly and from that time on, the hawk could not keep him at home, so the hawk tossed Homer out of the nest and sent him on his way.

The sergeant was not a retard, but the army could not find anything else that he could do, He was a farm boy and use to animal droppings on the ground. Having something to step in made him feel right at home. His uniform looked like it had been  used for catching bird droppings, for some time, and he did smell bad.

When Homer retired from service, he was given a job as a secretary in a dentist’s office where he would entertain the children while the dentist worked on their teeth.

Homer never found a mate and there was no family to care for. One day he went for a flight out over the country and he never came back.

Some how, The hawk had taught him how to circle a chicken coop, and a farmer thinking he was a chicken hawk, could have shoot him down. But no body was ever located, also he could have flown on down to Mexico and died there. He never had a visa or a pass port, so he may even be in a jail in Mexico. He learned how to speak Spanish in the army……but the words were all bad.

Of course, there is a chance that he is still flying around somewhere out there and you may have seen him flying around your coop. If you have, let me know or tell him to call, we have been worried about him!  I wonder, could He have been a Her?

Oct. 20,  2012

By: Ben R. ☻♫