Oh me too! I don't like... _dislike_ pigeons, they just are kinda dumb. Same with horses, I love horses, but goddamnit are they stupid, lol. Like, it's not an insult to identify that different kinds of animals have different kinds of mental capabilities. I'm just trying to point out that... while pigeons are 'dumb' in a lot of ways, they do also at least seem to have something akin to a superpower, so if you judged conscious entities by that metric, presumably they would all think that we are basically mentally disabled, in terms of navigation abilities. Something does not need to be highly intelligent to be loveable, appreciated. You basically just have to meet them on their level, if that makes sense.