Again, I was looking for my community cats at the multistorey carpark and I saw familiar faces from NParks walking towards Blk 196, Kim Keat Avenue. I’ve never thought that they were here to trap the pigeons again because the last trapping was done in early July. Moreover, pigeons aren’t populous here.
I took videos and photos as usual. No matter how hard pigeons were baited into the trap, they refused to go in.
I could see the frustration coming from NParks. Unable to trap the pigeons, NParks called the police. The police had nothing on me simply because I was only filming and I have every right to film whatever I want.
Being unable to trap the pigeons, they shifted the trap to Blk 195.
As you can see, there weren’t a lot of pigeons, yet NParks still proceeded to trap them. This made me realise that once again, our government has fooled the public into believing that one of the reasons for killing the pigeons is overpopulation!
NParks continued to move to another side of Blk 195. There were two pigeons whom I had noticed for a few days. One with its foot entangled with string and leaf stem, and the other with a broken wing.
In the video, the one who tried hard to escape the trap was the pigeon with its foot entangled with strings and leaf stem. The one with the broken wing simply collapsed next to it. It was so painful to watch and I cried hard while filming, and the humans were laughing at me. This made me realise that there truly are people with unkind hearts. A heart that wants and encourages others to kill.
NParks continued to move and set traps, but only two birds approached the food. Sensing something was not right, both flew away. With this, NParks ended their trapping for the day.
Instead of leaving, I caught two NParks staff moving up the multistorey car park where our community cats rest. Are they going to poison the cats like they did at Meiling Street? I don’t know. Nothing good can come from whatever they’re planning. I yelled at them to get lost and told them they were bringing shame to their parents by engaging in such work. This was the furthest I could go to tell them off. Always reminding myself not to curse anyone, though I was very, very angry—angry enough to feel like smacking all of them. But would doing that help? Unlikely… I would only injure my fist.
Since NParks failed to trap the pigeons at Blk 196, I believe they will need to come back to complete the trapping and killing. I hope that one day, I won’t have to film such videos ever again.
Please support using humane measures to control pigeon population. Below link is the petition to end pigeon culling.
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