DBWI Owls not domesticated

The greeks have a weird relationship with their owl population, they love them I mean the owls of Athens driving off invading armies thing has actually happened a few times.

When sparta attacked, that one by the way saved the city from being sacked, when the Turks invaded which prevented them from being conqured by the ottoman empire. Saved the entire balkans from that fate from what I read. It was a crucial battle, but while Athens loves owls the rest of the country kind of resents the capital, and eating owls was initially done as a form of protest against the capital, until it just became a thing. The fact that the Greeks have a much higher population of stray owls probally has some thing to do with it too.

As for spiting the turks, their national bird is the falcon not the owl so I don't get why eating owls would be done to spite the turks.
I meant them eating OUR national bird.
 
I meant them eating OUR national bird.

oh yeah, thats not some thing that earns a lot of love, but its kind of like how the Korean community eats dogs. Over there its just another dish and over here their pets, so that gets people riled up.
 
Plus, without domestic owls, what would we rely on for vermin control? I shudder to think of all the nastiness brought on by rats or mice or what have you, and while a cat is fine in the house, once you get out into the fields, a good owl is worth his weight in gold to a farmer.

On the other hand people in the cities might not have to deal with as many feral owls, and there wouldn't be as much of a need for exterminators, like the ones in this documentary:
 
That would be so weird. Like most other people, I have my owl wake me up in the morning. Would everyone just oversleep otherwise?
 
That would be so weird. Like most other people, I have my owl wake me up in the morning. Would everyone just oversleep otherwise?

No, Sylvester Domesticus can do the job. I had a house cant that would awake me at six each morning. Usually sitting on my chest staring into my eyes, and patting my cheek with its paw. If I rose early the cat at 6:00 would pace about the bed & room and complain loudly a few times.
 
That would be so weird. Like most other people, I have my owl wake me up in the morning. Would everyone just oversleep otherwise?

You also have your owl fetch your tv remote for you when ever you don't feel like getting it.

Speaking of which how the heck did you train it to do that?
 
You also have your owl fetch your tv remote for you when ever you don't feel like getting it.

Speaking of which how the heck did you train it to do that?

With the remote it's easy to teach it to fetch it, since it's like catching a rodent. The tricky part was getting the owl to stop chewing it.
 
Odd as this may seem, it's not impossible that in North America, a few of the midsized constrictor species might be semi-domesticated for vermin control: I speak primarily of the corn and black snake. They're efficient, ruthless, and dead silent. And they stay completely out of the way.
 
I've learned to put owl treats on the night stand. He usually gets the message.

He's a good boy, I remember that time a bear wandered into the neighborhood, and got too close to your kid. We all freaked out about that and then this little ball of fluff and feathers bolts out the door and starts clawing and pecking at the bear until it just ran in terror.

and then it jumped onto the table and promptly stole a strip of bacon.
 
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