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From when I was 8 until I was 17 I had a pet owl. It was a Great Horned Owl. Got it as an owlet from a neighbor that found it while hunting. Later I found they were endangered and a huge fine if you had a feather let alone a whole bird. I checked into giving it to a zoo and/or wildlife group and found they could only keep them alive for 2 years. I had already had it for 4 so I just kept it until it passed 5 years later from eating a mouse or rat that had been poisoned and got into his aviary. Since it had been raised in captivity I didn't think it would survive if I released it into the wild. I let if fly free all the time and it would return to me and land on my arm. Considered myself a night falconer.

Being only 8 when I got it I named it Herbert Hooter.