AN injured pigeon believes he is a family pet after being nursed back to health following a fall from a tree.

Charlie will come when he is called, has breakfast with the family and even likes to be stroked like a dog or a cat.

Tim and Lewis Green discovered the injured bird when he was about ten days old after he had fallen out of a nest.

The pair brought him back to the family home in Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, for Mr Green's wife Rachael to save.

Charlie was fed on chick crumb soaked in boiled water and survived.

Now, aged nine weeks, he returns daily to the family's home and enjoys nothing more than spending time with the family including daughters Abby, Georgia and Kelly as well as the couple's three-year-old son.

Mrs Green said: "I'm sure he will fly off one day but at the moment it's like having another pet.

"He will eat pigeon seed put out for him but still loves to be syringe fed.

"He stays out at night now but only recently as he was in a big rabbit cage in our playroom and came in on his own - he would just fly in to the playroom and walk into the kitchen at dusk.

"At about 8/8.30am he will fly to the decking outside the kitchen window for breakfast and will even come in if the window is open or I will go outside and call him and he flies onto my head."

After he has eaten breakfast, Charlie likes to potter around the garden and enjoys taking a shower under the outside tap if it is dripping and is fed by the family four or five times a day.

"If he flies off into nearby trees he will come back within five minutes if I call him.

"He loves to be stroked and to perch on the fire guard in the playroom especially if it's raining, he isn't scared of the dogs or rabbits.

"Other people think it's fantastic that he survived and how tame he is.

"I look after children and they will shout "Charlie's here" if they see him."

See the video of Charlie - the pigeon who thinks its a dog online at worcesternews.co.uk.