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I want to buy an Owl

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    OP's last utterance before being sectioned. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    I want one of these ... But the insurance company won't let me :(

    african_vulture.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭V_Moth


    Owls are some of the least intelligent birds, in fact most bricks would compare favourably in the IQ department. From what I've heard from falconers, they are quite difficult to train to hunt - even well trained owls will more often than not completely ignore prey walking by only a few feet away.

    /serious answer

    tldr: buy a brick instead


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 72 ✭✭ewinslet


    A parrot sitting in the corner of the room shouting abuse at everyone who comes in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    ewinslet wrote: »
    A parrot sitting in the corner of the room shouting abuse at everyone who comes in.

    I can fill that role for you, or nearly everyone in AH.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    A dire wolf and a penguin.

    They'd be friends so the penguin wouldn't get eaten.

    You're about 10,000 years too late on wanting one of them.

    I think a tarantuala would be a cool pet to have, give it an insect every now and again and it's happy out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Ducks are better, they give you eggs, look hilarious and do that "we don't quite belong on land" waddle anytime they want to go anywhere.
    Can't Owls be quite vicious?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    A wise owl might be costly though

    Wise owls don't go cheep cheep!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    You're about 10,000 years too late on wanting one of them.

    I read that alright but then again getting a pet dire wolf is about as likely as getting a pet owl or pet penguin etc. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    V_Moth wrote: »

    I had a brick once, it was a great pet, i didnt have to feed it or walk it or play with it, such a great pet,

    But i'd like a viperfish because they are scary as hell, or realistically a japanese akita

    much dog
    very play
    wow :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    V_Moth wrote: »

    Had a brick before but lost it to some brick in a porch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    I had a brick once, it was a great pet, i didnt have to feed it or walk it or play with it, such a great pet,

    But i'd like a viperfish because they are scary as hell, or realistically a japanese akita

    much dog
    very play
    wow :pac:


    Awkward moment when doge is a shiba inu and not an Akita.

    Much embarrase
    Such awkward
    Very shibe
    Wow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    Who who would think an owl is a perfect pet? Who who I ask you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    I'd love an owl... I'm not going to be a crazy old cat lady when I'm older, I'm going to be a crazy old owl lady :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    kwestfan08 wrote: »
    Who who would think an owl is a perfect pet? Who who I ask you?
    A twit thats who, thats who


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Baby Owls are incredibly cute, they look so snuggely.


  • Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭HomelessMidge


    I really want an Ocelot as a pet!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    ^^
    Hoo doesn't


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I really want an Ocelot as a pet!

    Beautiful animal, Salvador Dali kept one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Beautiful animal, Salvador Dali kept one.
    He had a candle lit giraffe too, puttin that on the list


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Awkward moment when doge is a shiba inu and not an Akita.

    Much embarrase
    Such awkward
    Very shibe
    Wow

    Such shame
    Much learn
    Very oops
    Wow such coat and leaving now :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    I've gotten too old to walk the dog. an Owl would be a perfect substitute pertched on my shoulder lookin wise'n'all.
    Your perfect pet?
    I'd love a pet hedgehog.

    Get one of each, and your could breed them, and then you could be the proud owner of................


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    A prickley perch?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    A prickley perch?

    A prick that stays up all night:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Whats stopping you from perching the dog on your shoulder?

    ...failing that, what about a parrot?


    Best thing I've seen all day! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Thread needs more Weebl!




    On the topic, I'd love a sloth. Lazy buggers but so very amusing to look at!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    I think my favourite pet would be either a human centipede or a werwolf!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,572 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    porsche959 wrote: »
    I think my favourite pet would be either a human centipede or a werwolf!

    have you seen the movie? No just no


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    I've gotten too old to walk the dog. an Owl would be a perfect substitute pertched on my shoulder lookin wise'n'all.
    Your perfect pet?


    You could of course go for a Replicant owl with glowing red eyes as in Bladerunner....

    AnnaRettberg_bladerunner.jpg

    Rachael: Do you like our owl?
    Deckard: It's artificial?
    Rachael: Of course it is.
    Deckard: Must be expensive.
    Rachael: Very.

    .....


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  • Site Banned Posts: 6 Flaming Juno


    A dire wolf and a penguin.

    They'd be friends so the penguin wouldn't get eaten.
    I have a fox, a chicken, a sack of corn and a boat that has enough room for me and one other...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Whats stopping you from perching the dog on your shoulder?

    ...failing that, what about a parrot?


    I would strangle that thing inside about half an hour. Seriously annoying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Pygmy Hippo or a diamond pony.

    Scrap that I just want a cat named Missus Chang


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    I think a tarantuala would be a cool pet to have, give it an insect every now and again and it's happy out.


    Been there,done that and still have the bite mark to prove it.
    Then again I shouldn't have been hand feeding a Tarantulas :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    The Pussycat Times

    Small Ads:

    One Owl, house trained. Good maritime navigational skills. Free to nice home.

    Also, slightly battered boat. Pea green in colour.

    Can't get much cheeper than that.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    --LOS-- wrote: »

    The whatever it is on the rhs looks constipated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,597 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    V_Moth wrote: »
    Owls are some of the least intelligent birds, in fact most bricks would compare favourably in the IQ department. From what I've heard from falconers, they are quite difficult to train to hunt - even well trained owls will more often than not completely ignore prey walking by only a few feet away.

    /serious answer

    tldr: buy a brick instead

    Yeah, I too have heard that owls are not very talon - ted


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,597 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I'd love a crow or a raven for a pet even though they have a habit of escaping from their cage and re-arranging your furniture

    Seriously. They're awesome


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I want a bird of prey I can train to snatch money out of peoples hands. It would be great to set it free a few times around beer gardens. You can imagine the look on peoples faces as they are about to hand over a 50 to pay for a round and in a woosh of feathers it was just gone. Followed by that look from the customer showing he is thinking "How can I now get away without paying for this roung" and the waiter thinking "Ok as weird as that was - you are still paying for this round".
    I'd also like a wolf if I didn't have to walk it

    I have one actually - and not walking it is an option I would not advise anyone take who also has one. It - does not go well for anyone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Jonny Blaze


    Red panda for the win!



    They're also known as 'red cat-bears'.. cat-bears!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I want a bird of prey I can train to snatch money out of peoples hands. .

    I believe they are called ex-wives:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    The Pussycat Times

    Small Ads:

    One Owl, house trained. Good maritime navigational skills. Free to nice home.

    Also, slightly battered boat. Pea green in colour.

    Can't get much cheeper than that.

    I hear they're big on having plenty of honey though?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Is there much money to be made in the owl trade, for instance if I were to source owls from overseas do you think there's a market here to flog them?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    kylith wrote: »
    I would strangle that thing inside about half an hour. Seriously annoying.

    I dunno, she looks kinda cute :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Ducks are better, they give you eggs, look hilarious and do that "we don't quite belong on land" waddle anytime they want to go anywhere.
    Can't Owls be quite vicious?

    Ducks are great, so are chickens. Hatch them in an incubator rather than buy adults. They'll follow you about and consider you their parent until they're older and you aren't cool enough to be seen around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    kowloon wrote: »
    Ducks are great, so are chickens. Hatch them in an incubator rather than buy adults. They'll follow you about and consider you their parent until they're older and you aren't cool enough to be seen around.

    Kowloon. Chicken Emperor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Kowloon. Chicken Emperor.

    I prefer the title 'Lord' :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Hi OP.

    I've had a pet owl for the past 3 years now and am delighted with it.
    It's just the best pet ever and always gets me so much attention.



    It's a real head turner...


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