Rex gave him a weird look, a brow arched as if to say "Are you finished?" Not that he couldn't understand people's aversion to vermin-- he was finicky, himself-- but Jay was talking about pigeons like Rex would talk about, well, the Joes, who were far more bothersome and worthy of contempt than some useless birds.

"Uh. I don't see the resemblance, myself, but I agree that hawks are certainly... vicious." Rex knew that much from experience with his own hawk. "Anyway." He cleared his throat. "If your goal is to capture pigeons, then you should look towards adapting features of animals that prey on them. Cats, for example..."