Catherine, I don't know what you learned from my story. The pigeons we let out used to stay in our home but on the roof top but later on when they had to lay eggs and stuff, they left. And its so sad, I didn't get my homing pigeons yet. We will keep them to deliver letters for us. I don't think we will let them free. Even if we do, they'd make their nest on the exhaust fan in the washing area. Its open and birds usually make their nests there. But, I wouldn't want to set them free. I love pigeons and birds. We couldn't get a cage so we thought about letting the pigeons free. Wonder how many generations have passed in their family.