PETA Supports Rats With Wings

Wow, PETA had a choice, protect pigeons, aka, rats with wings or Mike Tyson, whose life has been a tragedy.
Mike Tyson, former boxer, has a new show a new show about his life and his racing pigeons.
From the LVRJ: Upset by the show's portrayal of a "sport" that often leaves its winged competitors grounded for good, about 20 people Monday flocked outside Tyson's gated Seven Hills neighborhood with signs decrying the former boxing champ's role in pigeon racing.
"Mike doesn't give pigeons a fighting chance," read some signs. "Featherweights: No match for a heavyweight," read others.
Lisa Lange, a PETA official who flew in from Los Angeles, said the protest was timed to follow Sunday night's debut of Tyson's show on Animal Planet. "Taking on Tyson" pits the former boxer and lifelong pigeon lover against other pigeon racers in the New York City area.
The group hoped to ruffle feathers over the treatment of racing pigeons, who are separated from their mates and family and forced to race up to 600 miles to get back home. As many as six out of 10 racing pigeons never make it, she said, likely the victims of birds of prey or sheer exhaustion.
Umm, PETA, most pigeons end up as birds of prey from neighborhood cats, getting hit by cars or dying by other means.
But Tyson loves his pigeons: Tyson developed his love for pigeons during his troubled childhood in Brooklyn. He's said he threw his first punch after a neighborhood bully killed one of his pigeons in front of him, and he continued to keep and breed the birds throughout his rise and fall in the boxing world.
"The first thing I ever loved in my life was a pigeon. I don't know why," Tyson said in an Animal Planet press kit on the show. "Pigeons are a part of my life. It's a constant with my sanity in a weird way; this is just what I do. If I'm lucky enough to die an old man, I'm going to have birds." http://www.lvrj.com/news/mike-tyson-s-new-show-about-pigeon-racing-ruffles-feathers-117559653.html
I am pretty sure that Tyson takes care of his pigeons better than those in the wild. He feeds decent food that is healthy for them instead of the pigeons that will eat just about anything. He also trains them and shows them love, something that wild pigeons lack.
PETA should out protecting Mike Tyson from all the predators that surround him. He has needed protection all of his life from leeches and hanger's on. Now, that would be a hell of a cause.
But PETA chooses to protest about rats with wings. Too bad.