A family have been left in a flap after a racing pigeon from 200miles away turned up inside their house and refused to leave. The winged visitor somehow managed to get into the utility room of the address in Marshfield, Cardiff this morning (Tuesday, August 9), since which time he's been acting like he rules the roost.
After calling the telephone number contained in a tag on the bird's leg the family discovered he had come all the way from Dagenham in East London. What is more, after asking the owner for advice about what to do they were told, "Just give him some seeds and water and let him rest - he'll come back home after a couple of days."
But as Evie Pardoe - the 17-year-old A'level student who found him - pointed out, time isn't on their side. "Pepa, our Labradoodle, has never really met a racing pigeon before," she said.
