Awwww, you story is so touching. Sorry about the loss of your dear pigeon.

I think you should definitely pursue your passion for keeping animals and birds as you love to. Nothing can be more satisfying than that. And the project of having a steem Shri gram is a beautiful one and I think the steemit team would support it and invest in it if you bring the project to limelight. It can even be a way to promote steemit and even get possible investors and people can patronize you by buying in steem . Beautiful idea really.