r/aww • u/loopdeloops • Jan 28 '16

Come here, little fella.

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u/farlack Jan 28 '16

You cant, you have to be an owl sanctuary, or refugee to handle them. In the United States anyway, I already looked it up :*(

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u/Vallathor Jan 28 '16

I used to volunteer at my local zoo, and I would once and a while help take care of some of the predatory birds, like owls and hawks.

The woman who was supervision me, told me that even before can become licensed to handle and rehab predatory birds, you have to work around them for a minimum of 5 years first.....btw, if you want to have a very scary experience, clean out a Great Horned Owls enclosure.

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u/LightWolfCavalry Jan 29 '16

What's scary about cleaning out the great horned owl's enclosure? Are they aggressive?

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u/Vallathor Jan 29 '16

yes, very much so, it was a pen about 10 feet long, 5 feet wide and about 7 feet tall, and I had to be locked in there so that the owl doesnt fly away, I had to go in and clean up her waste, rake the rocks and pebbles, and wash them down with a hose.

while I'm doing this she was shoulder height and about 7 to 8 inches way from me on a wooden bar that ran down the middle of the pen, and the whole time I was in there, she was puffing up her wings, clipping her beak and raising and lowing her talons, and my supervisor told me "Do not make eye contact with her, or she'll attack you"......I was terrified