Our Visitors for today! - A clingy and lovely little DOVE is back in the house 🏡 and playing with my kids.

Greetings to all Hivers and pet lovers around the world!

I'm a new subscriber in this amazing and pet lovers community, and it is my first time posting a glimpse of our pet at home. I'm so excited to share it with you all.

While I am busy preparing and cooking for our food, I suddenly heard my baby laughing. I'm curious on what make him giggle, I turned to look and guess what? It was a dove! I instantly recognized the bird. It was the same dove we had rescued and cared for when it was just a baby. Its nest was on our window, place high up. They are all three baby dove on a nest. Sadly, its siblings didn’t survive, they had fallen to the ground and were taken by a dog, as they didn’t yet have feathers to help them fly.

My husband decided to rescue the remaining baby dove. We hand-fed it until it learned to eat on its own. As its feathers grew and it started to fly, we tried to release it. But unfortunately, it had an injured foot. It was injured by the stray cat. One day while sunbathing, the cat tried to catch it and managed to grab its foot, though thankfully it didn’t succeed in taking the bird.

Despite the injury, the dove eventually learned to fly. We released it when the injured foot is cured and continued feeding it on the rooftop along with other doves. And today it came back. It was playing happily with my children! When I tried to hold it, it didn’t fly away. Instead, it climbed onto my shoulder, as if trying to kiss my cheek, and didn’t want to come down.

We played with it for a while before letting it fly off to rejoin its fellow doves. Now, every morning and afternoon, I scatter cracked corn on the rooftop so they can eat safely far from any lurking cats. The other doves are already traumatized by this cats, so even i throw corn on the ground they never go down, they just stayed on the rooftop so we decided to feed them on the rooftop.

This experience reminded me that when you show love and care to animals, they never forget. They come back whether out of gratitude or connection. And this doesn't apply to doves alone, any animals you treat with kindness will remember you in some way.

Thank you for taking time to read my blog, i really appreciate it! MABUHAY!

_{*photos are mine and edited in canva}