Why do people hate pet owls so much?After owning an owl for over a month I can confirm they are very fun pets. Far better and easier to care for than large parrots because they are so simple minded (second smallest brain of all birds)They aren't active birds, only poop 3-4 times a day, and have an extremely simple diet. As long as they're hand raised by you they're friendly and easy to handle. They don't suffer if you don't dote on them 24/7 like parrots and they don't need to be kept in pairs or flocks to stay happy. They don't destroy all the shit in your house and it's very easy to breed them.Genuinely don't understand why they are seen as cruel to own when parrots are so much harder to care for.
>>5081496Are the animals being mistreated? Is the collection of them for the pet trade harming wild stocks? Are they transmitting diseases to people? No? Then I don’t see the issue. The guy in your pic related isn’t doing anything that anyone with a cockatiel wouldn’t do. People have had pet birds of prey for a very long time. The only real issue I’ve seen is depleting wild populations in some cases.
Because only faggots get exotic pets, period. If you want a non-poultry bird then get a pigeon or a canary, there's literally no reason for you to be owning an owl and you cannot give it the proper stimulation it gets in the wild no matter what you do.
>>5081526Owls spend the majority of their life in the wild hiding against tree trunks hoping cr*ws won't discover them.
>>5081543Why are owls scared of crows?
>>5081677crows understand revenge
>>5081701What would crows do? They're not built to kill animals larger than them.
>>5081726They gang up and harass the owls during daytime for looting their nests and preying on solo crows.
>>5081526>There's literally no reason for you to be owning an owl and you cannot give it the proper stimulation it gets in the wild no matter whatI don't need a reason to own an owl. Or any pet. Do you need to be able to list reasons why you own a rat besides "I like rats" and maybe "I get emotional support from them"? Owls are less intelligent than chickens and pigeons. Their enrichment amounts to getting to tear apart thawed out prey items you give them, or maybe a stuffed animal. They're notoriously lazy and don't even like to fly, people who train them for educational displays (like where I purchased mine from) often have to own multiple because they aren't reliable.There is no stimulation that owls lack in captivity.
>>5081525In the USA they aren't being collected from the wild, they're all captive bred. The only owls that are legal to own as pets here are also species not native or migratory to North America; so that limits us to ones like Eurasian eagle owls and spectacled owls (the ones Bigboi owns)Birds in general are some of the most protected groups of animals to import or export here. They are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (if they're native), the Wild Bird Conservation Act, and the Endangered Species Act if they're endangered (as most parrots in our pet trade are) and it makes it virtually impossible to import any owls into the USA nowadays, let alone wild caught ones. The pet trade got their original breeding stock from zoos.
>>5082270what a gorgeous creature
>>5081496wait, it's true that owls are thick in the head?? (I've heard it once before)
>>5081496love the eyebrows on those fellas
>>5081496Can you train the owls to hunt cats?
>>5081526The kind of stimulation you get in the wild doesn't mean always good feelings
