Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.