Talk:Pet Dove/@comment-30592792-20180626204832/@comment-34219364-20180702004800

Pretty sure doves are a breed (dunno the right word) of pigeon, so you could call it a pigeon, but it’s like:

A golden retriever is a dog, but it doesn’t look the same as a chihuahua

You can still call doves pigeons, but the term “pigeon” is a little more vague than the term “dove”.

If AJ had a pet chihuahua and a pet golden retriever, which are two pretty different looking animals, they can’t name them both “Pet Dog”, though they could do patterns and stuff but they look quite different from one another.

Maybe ajhq wants to make room for more breeds of pigeons or something, but the point is that “pigeon” is a wider category of animals than “dove”, so you can’t really say it’s incorrect to call a breed of pigeon a dove. (Unless that breed of pigeon isn’t a dove of course)