A homing pigeon in Kuwait is no longer flying high after it was caught carrying a tiny backpack filled with drugs, according to reports. Kuwaiti customs nabbed the feathered drug mule while it was flying near Iraq’s border, Al Arabiya English reported. Photos from news site show the bird wearing a light blue pouch cut open to expose a number of white pills. Shocking images: Traffickers use pigeon to smuggle drugs into #Kuwait https://t.co/yl1Ri2xVHk pic.twitter.com/oFGWwX07N5— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 23, 2017 Reporter Abdullah Fahmi, with the Kuwaiti paper al-Rai, told the BBC that the drugs were identified as a type of ketamine, which is an anesthetic that can be abused as a “club drug,” according to the U.S.