I would assume that in star wars’s universe they weren’t kept by humans for millennia giving them a close bond with people that only became inconvenient when we no longer found them useful.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wondered-why-cities-have-so-many-pigeons/2019/06/07/ffad4918-83b9-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html