I found an owl.

[Mastros2]

What a majestic creature.  +1 to Mr. Black.

My thoughts exactly. Two  

[stromgal]

Hope it makes a full recovery.

At the house (in exurbia) where I lived for 25 years, there was always a great horned owl living in a tree outside my bedroom window; grew used to listening to the hooting at night. And once in a while, as I was standing outside star-gazing in the evening, it would pass just over my head, silently. Raises the hair on my neck just recalling that.  

I moved into the city, and much to my amazement, two years after I moved I started hearing an owl at night in the tree outside my bedroom window.  Still there, listened to it again two nights ago when I had the window open.

[Baz]

Every few years we have snowy owls winter over here from the Arctic. One showed up at our off leash dog park, and was the talk of the town.

It ended up killing & eating a little dog of some sort one day, and after that no one liked it anymore.

Majestic birds though. I love owls!

[Frankienuckles]

Very cool, Blackie! Beautiful animal!

[X1Glider]

Way to go.  I really dig owls.  Thanks to the great horned owls, our subdivision is much quieter these days.  All the little tea cup chihuahuas and other tiny rat dog yappers that annoyed me are now either owl food or inside where they belong.

Now if there was only an owl large enough to carry away the 10 year old boy who still screams like a 6 year old girl in the house behind me.

[CLAY]

If I had an owl in the back yard preventing me from having my pets play in the yard, that owl would somehow be relocated, whether in a box or otherwise. Sure I'd try to capture it or tranquilize it first, but somehow, it would be gone.  Sorry, not keeping my dog inside simply because of the reign of a majestic bird in my tree.

Meh.    There's plenty of owls.

Your uncle raises dead ducks???  Weird.

Not weird at all.  They are very easy to feed.

And what's a corn crib?

- Dan

Where we keep the baby corns while they sleep.

wondering how many negative reps I'll get for that first comment.  I keed, I keed!  

[misanthropist]

WTF kind of tests do they run on owls?  The old "Who's On First" routine?

Maybe they rotate them.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBpF_Zj4OA

[ConPilot1]

I wish I had a picture of my Grandma's gravestone. There's an Owl engraved on it. She LOVED owls.  I do too. Any raptor bird is usually a pretty intelligent amazing and beautiful creature with eyes that you can't forget.

[CosmicCowboy]

That pr!ck is responsible for the death of two beautiful animals.

The owl and what else?

[pcrdude]

Owls are my favorite bird, and possibly my favorite animal.  There is a bird rescue center close to where I live.  Here is a pic I took there:

[Mrs. DantesDame]

Meh.    There's plenty of owls.

But a LOT more useless dogs  

[Cablebandit]

Without the element of surprise my money would have gone on the dog.

[Mrs. DantesDame]

My buddy had an Owl living in a tree behind his house. One day, he watched as the owl swooped down and carried off his mini dashund.

They're called "hot dogs" for a reason  

[Giaka]

With a dog like that (which, come on, really can't be called a dog), I congratulate the owl.  

Big misconception. Small dogs are not dogs, they are food. Proven time and time again. I personally witness a bald eagle take out a little shitzu thing once. The owner thought it would be cool to let the dog run off leash in Denali Park. I almost busted a rib laughing. Once I regained my composure I decided that what I saw was pretty fucked up, then I giggled a little.  

[coho]

... with roughly 1500psi of grasping pressure and a ratcheting thing that locks them closed. You don't wanna get latched onto by an owl if you can avoid it.  

[Mr. Whippy]

Place keeper.

Nothing to add, just wanted this topic to pop up in new replies.

Go Owl!

[vulcanbill]

There are a disburbing number of people who have no concept of the food chain.  They heard it in grade school and that's the last time.  Those same people grow up, visit places where they, or a member of their party, are not on the top of the food chain and wonder why this happens.

See Grizzly Man...and chic in alaska eaten by wolves...and so on and so forth.  I don't wanna see anyone's beloved pet get eaten but c'mon.  Rules are rules.

[county]

They're called "hot dogs" for a reason  

Keep on going girl...

[atadaskew]

See Grizzly Man...and chic in alaska eaten by wolves...and so on and so forth.  I don't wanna see anyone's beloved pet get eaten but c'mon.  Rules are rules.

Grizzly man was eaten by grizzlies.

See, it's all about naming yourself correctly.

Me? I would go with Playboy Playmate man and see what happens..

[Mr. Whippy]

Grizzly man was eaten by grizzlies.

See, it's all about naming yourself correctly.

Me? I would go with Playboy Playmate man and see what happens..

Die from overwhelming Candidal sepsis.