Don't worry I've not taken up another hobby!
Pigeons are not normally an animal I'd say I like, in fact I'm normally trying to keep them away from what I'm doing. But A friend at work is mad into pigeon racing. He eats, sleeps and breathes it. His partner says that if he thinks any more about it he'd grow feathers.
I guess this is how I've got roped into helping him train them. As I live furthest from him, and on the same line in which his club race from, I'm taking his pigeons home once or twice a week letting them go. It's amazing really, it's about an hours drive between us and the pigeons will do the distance in around half an hour (depending on the wind).
Scientist still aren't a 100% sure how these pigeons find there way back. I can see how it would be an interesting hobby, all the different ways of training them and breeding them, knowing that seconds count in a race, pigeons racing at 60mph.
Sadly this old pastime is dying out, there's too much against the modern pigeon keeper now and in twenty years I'll be surprised if there's any left doing it, just more people playing computer games.
