Mike Tyson's new show on Animal Planet, Taking On Tyson,
revolves around the former boxer's introduction to the sport of
racing homing pigeons. Viewers get a glimpse of a fascinating
world, in which birds are treated like athletes — carefully
trained, fed only the best birdseed and vitamins, prized for
their performance. There's definitely something different about
people who like birds. Bird people can't (usually?) cuddle or
snuggle with their pet at night like dog people and cat people.
There's no moving-together-as-one-powerful-being experience,
like horse people have. Birds — whether they be sparrows or
eagles — are delicate. And most of them do what people, cats,
dogs and horses cannot: Fly. Bird people tend to have their eyes
on the sky.  There are many different racing clubs in the New
York area, but Tyson is a newcomer to the competition. That
said, his involvement with birds has been almost life-long. As a
kid growing up in Brooklyn, he was impoverished, bullied
incessantly and surrounded by drugs an