MEET THE ANIMALS: BamBam | Bette | Gandalf | Gilda | Lovey-Dovey | Penny | Persian Brave | Red | Sophia | Veggie

Lovey-Dovey endured a barrage of bullets at the Hegins Pigeon Shoot, a "sporting event" that took place in Pennsylvania every Labor Day weekend. At the canned hunt, the defenseless birds were flung out of boxes only to have a row of hunters take aim and shoot them out of the sky. Those that dropped to the ground but were not dead yet had their necks wrung by adolescent boys as part of the "fun." Brave animal advocates ventured onto the killing field to rescue birds before they could be strangled. Lovey was saved in this manner. She is one of several pigeons that survived after being wounded and maimed (no longer able to fly), and was transported to SASHA Farm to live in a specially constructed pigeon coop with her feathered friends.

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