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Why owls make bad pets
A young Harry Potter with his pet snow owl, Hedwig. They may be cute in "Harry Potter" movies. But clueless wizard fans in England are learning the hard way that owls are not like parrots.
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A snow owl sits on an actor's hand during a Harry Potter DVD launch party on November 18, 2004 in London, England.
Kai Ryssdal: I have no idea how to set up this next story other than to say I am 100 percent not surprised that owls aren't the charming pets they seem to be in the world of "Harry Potter." There are reports from the U.K. that disillusioned-wizard-wanna-be's are surrendering the birds they bought.
Marketplace's Adriene Hill is on the owl beat today.
Adriene Hill: When "Harry Potter" came out, kids wanted their very own Hedwig.
Catherine Redfern: We do get a lot of requests from people asking us to sell them an owl because they would like to have one as a pet.
Catherine Redfern is with World Bird Sanctuary, which breeds owls for release into the wild and for educational facilities. For a while, she says, they were getting a couple of calls a day from people just desperate for a pet owl.
Redfern: We deflect those very quickly.
For one, it's illegal in most cases to keep native owls in the U.S. You need permits and licenses. Also, owls make terrible pets.
Andrew Hulme manages the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in the U.K., where owl laws are a little more lenient. He's still not a pet owl fan.
Andrew Hulme: It's not like a domestically bred cat or a dog where it can be trained to go to the toilet, they just naturally go to the toilet full stop.
Owls also need a lot of space. They eat whole animals. They live for decades. They sleep when you're awake, make noise when you're asleep, and they have beaks and talons meant to tear flesh and bite through bone.
Susannah Conard: So they are not going to be cuddled or snuggled.
Susannah Conard is with the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove. She says owls might also eat your other pets.
Conard: He would be your solo companion absolutely 'cause you could not have like hamsters or mice or kittens or chihuahuas or anything else -- no, no, no, it would just be prey to them.
But, as a Potter fan, I have to ask....
Hill: Tell me, can an owl deliver a letter for me?
Conard: Can they be trained? Yes, but it's a bad idea. Can it deliver a letter? No, it would shred it.
OK, I'm sold. No owl.
I'm Adriene Hill for Marketplace.
The features of owl make it a less popular pet than the cats and dogs. They sleep during day time and make loud noise. Even they can not be trained as other pets. The most annoying fact is that they can eat your other pets and can attack the pet owner also. So think twice before choosing owl as your pet.
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