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Noshin Raisa - 2009-06-30
Well I didn't actually see any doves. I really want a pure white dove that is gentle and sweet tempered. But I don't know where to get one. My birthday is in July 3. I am in Manhattan. If anyone know where to get a pure white dove, than tell me 'PLEASE!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much!

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nathan sizer - 2010-04-11
I have a pair already they're beautiful birds.
Amy - 2011-03-06
Keep my e mail handy mine keep hatching white babies.
Cari Cleverly-Carmichael - 2012-01-31
Noshin,
Two years ago my husband got me two white Doves for our annivesary. I had never even considered having a bird as a pet prior to my new thoughtful and very unique anniversary gift. WOW!!! It was love at first sight, they are so pretty, and that's nothing compared to their quite surprising social little personalities. They are extremely sweet, loveable, curious, social, and funny. Mine make a laughing sound that is so cute it makes me laugh too. Any way my Doves named Jasper and Lola have parented four baby birds that I have happily welcomed into our family (it can get a little noisy around here especially early in the morning) but it's a soothing sound and I LOVE IT!!! I don't know if it's the area I live in or what (Butte, Montana), but no one seems to want a baby Dove. I would love to help you get your pure white Dove (or two), that is gentle, and sweet tempered.

Ruby H - 2011-11-21
I have a silly question. Sometimes when my dove is just flitting around when he lands he giggles. Seriously does anybody know what this means?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-21
Not a silly question. My human had a cockatoo and the cockatoo would just click for an hour at a time. Just click. She called everyone and asked why the c;licking and no one could answer. My guess is they just happen to like making a particular sound and they repeat it over and over.
Peter A Meyer - 2011-12-14
Friends of mine in Melbourne had a Galah (Rose-breasted Cockatoo) that must have been reared with a cat because it purred!
Lynda Bradford - 2012-01-13
That is a natural landing sound for doves. Then they will flicker their wings to welcome each other.
abe - 2012-01-30
He is most likely a she. My male only coos and my younger female laughs when landing or when she is picking at the male! Also the male can only walk real slow, but hops real fast when he is after the female. She walks real fast. I don't know if all males and females have this same feature.

Richard Sage - 2011-03-09
We have a white ringneck dove that is about 11 months old. We just found out it was a female when she laid an egg, then 2, 3 and now 4. She has only taken to 1, the last. Will the egg produce a baby seeing she is the only bird with no mate?

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Editor's Note - 2011-03-09
No, the egg will not produce a baby. Your dove must have a mate to fertilize the egg, otherwise it cannot hatch.
dot - 2012-01-18
The eggs have to be fertilized or they will not hatch.

mary - 2011-11-02
I'm still trying to catch this beautiful white dove that adopted me this summer, I live in MI so it's not gona be nice soon. I've wrtten before and all the hints to catch haven't worked. she's a fast one. If I'm successful how big a cage do I need, food what kind and where do I find grit, and will she adapt to indoor life?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-03
If she is that flighty than I don't know of any other way to catch her except a net. You just catch her like you would a butterfly with the net and then twist the net closed and carry her into the home. The cage should be at least 2 X 2 by 3. You can find grit/food etc at the pet store and I just can't imagine that she would not adapt to indoor life. I think she must have been indoors or had human contact at some point. It might take a little while but she wouldn't keep coming back like this if she felt safe somewhere else.
Marthe Schwartz - 2011-11-03
Hi Mary,I had written before, but did not see it posted. A white sacred dove was sitting in my driveway end of August. I lured her in with placing seeds and a water dish into the garage. Once inside I closed the garage and cornered her with a white sheet which I gently throw over her. Well, she is with us and my parrots since then and part of our family. I named her 'Perlita'.
So gentle and sweet and she knows the whole house now and flies around to certain times when I let her out of her cage(cockatiel cage) or the guest bathroom, she occupies both. :-) Any Petstore should have grit, buy the medium size. Good Luck, hope you can get her into your garage!? Marthe
mary - 2011-11-04
I hadn't thought of a sheet. I have some decorative fishnet that is flexable that maybe I could throw over her, as i don't have a garage to lure her into. I swear she eats with one eye on her food and one eye on me and at the smallest move I make, she's up on the roof.
Frank - 2011-11-06
One of my white doves got out of the pen and she had 2 little ones in the nest. The male mate continued to feed them. Mother dove did not stray because she had the babies. If she didn't have babies she would have been long gone. I have a small Hav-A-Heart trap suitable for catching small fry such as birds, chipmunks and so forth. I placed it on the ground by the pen and after a couple of days she became hungry and flew back to the pen, looked around and saw the seeds and half piece of crumbled white bread and and I placed it in a line Hansel and Gretel style and she followed the food inside and triggered the trap. I put her back in the pen and she flew straight to the nest and her little ones. Frank
Lynda Bradford - 2012-01-13
Big fish net with a long handle

mary - 2011-11-07
I sure hope doves have short term memory, cause today I really made her mad trying to catch her with no luck, first with a blanket no luck she moved just as i dropped it, then with a fishing net which my neighbor had previously tried weeks ago and she took off and I haven't seen her since. I'm so upset, that she put her trust in me and then I upset her by trying to catch her. I just hope she comes back to eat, All of you sucessful dove catchers must be a lot faster than I am.

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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-08
I am sorry - she must be fast. The only other thing I can think of is to take some sort of cage and put the food inside the cage. Tie a string to the door and when she goes into eat - which might take a couple of tries then pull the string and close the door.
Lynda Bradford - 2012-01-13
Try a big fish net.

netra sonawane - 2011-12-18
My white dove is born to eggs but is not coming to hatching and not coming to pets why not come to hatching tell me?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-12-20
I'm not sure I understand exactly but I believe you're asking why your dove isn't sitting her eggs. Many times they do not sit (incubate) the eggs until the last egg is laid. During this time and incubation, it would be unlikely that she would come to be pet as well. Wait until the last egg is laid and see if she starts sitting the eggs then.
Lynda Bradford - 2012-01-13
mother nature

Lynda Bradford - 2012-01-13
I have a question: I have a 6x6x4 foot avaiary for my pair of white doves. Can I house my pair of ringnecks in the same aviary?

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Charlie Roche - 2012-01-13
I would not. Ringnecks can be quite agressive and territorial especially during breeding season. Doves are extremely gentle and I think someone just might get hurt.

Rose - 2012-01-05
Hi
I have a dovecote can daimond doves or ringneck doves be kept in it if they are homed

joe swider - 2011-12-17
About two weeks ago a white dove landed on my balcony and I seen that it had only one foot.I tried to get close and it flew to a nearby tree for a few minutes and then flew into the house through an open door and landed on a counter. After a day I was able to place the dove in a large Macaw cage that I had and it has been there since. It seems very adjusted and coos and cleans itself and eats well. I wonder if this was a lost dove and how did it lose it's foot. After some time would it be advisable to release the dove and expect it to return?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-12-17
I think you have a tame dove there and just releasing the dove - probably wouldn't make it on its own. There are people who want doves, there are resue agencies and should you decide that you don't wish to keep the fella, then maybe you can find a home for him. It wouldn't be that comfortable if it weren't tame. As to the foot - many things could have happened. Foot could have gotten caught on a cage door (while he made his escape) or a fight with another bird. He is not aware that he is supposed to have two feet so he is fine.

Nancy Lynne Rankin - 2011-01-15
I have 2 mated pairs of white ring neck doves in separate cages. I inherited one pair and before I clearly understood about breeding and so forth, I had a second pair. All is well except I have an issue with these little black bug/beetles and I don't know what to do. I've tried a purchased repellent that is attached to the outside of the cages but it doesn't work. I've tried spraying them individually with a spray I bought and the birds like to bathe and do so but nothing seems to work. Any ideas, any help would be appreciated? Thank you.

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Peter A Meyer - 2011-12-16
Nancy,
Just new to this site and noticed nobody replied to you. If you still check your posting you should be able to buy a specific louse and mite spray for birds. My white dove that I caught near Melbourne, Australia, last Sunday lost all his/her lice with one application, but then we did give it a good soak By fluffing out its feathers and spraying right onto the skin over most of the bird.
Peter.

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