Owl man criticised by RSPCA - Echo exclusive...

[Mad Cyril]

I mailed the editor of the echo last week asking for a feature on the Owl man.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1796728.mostviewed.owl_man_criticised_by_rspca.php

It's good to hear that all of the Owl mans owls are registered:

If they're not, there's nothing I can do with these owls. I like to be up-to-date with everything like that.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Blimey, no sheds been set on fire or broken in to lately then :p

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Another slow news day for the echo then... :p

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Another slow news day for the echo then... :p

I even bought the Echo this morning on my way to work, the first time in ages. If this sums up the type of stories that are in the paper today, I shouldnt have bothered!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

I even bought the Echo this morning on my way to work, the first time in ages. If this sums up the type of stories that are in the paper today, I shouldnt have bothered!

Doesn't it sum up the stories that are featured in the Echo most days though?!?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

I even bought the Echo this morning on my way to work, the first time in ages. If this sums up the type of stories that are in the paper today, I shouldnt have bothered!

You're paid to work, not sit about reading the local paper!

 

[Vange Shrimper]

You're paid to work, not sit about reading the local paper!

I have 2 hours free today at work. Have to do something to kill the time, dont I?!

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

I have 2 hours free today at work. Have to do something to kill the time, dont I?!

Is it possible to spend 2 hours reading the echo?

I though have always found the echo - soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent. :p

 

[SUFC_Al]

well about boody time, owls are nocturnal and shouldn't be out during the day. I know he gets attention, the kids love them yadda yadda but the fact remains they should be paraded around town during the day like that.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

well about boody time, owls are nocturnal and shouldn't be out during the day. I know he gets attention, the kids love them yadda yadda but the fact remains they should be paraded around town during the day like that.

Booo. Don't be so PC Al!
I'm sure the Owls - as they're domesticated now - won't be too stressed by daylight as they'll be used to it...

 

[Mad Cyril]

If I was an owl I would rather be out in the daylight eating owl mix and the occasional bit of KFC, Burger King and Mc Donalds than out at night and eating voles and shrews.

 

[SUFC_Al]

Booo. Don't be so PC Al!
I'm sure the Owls - as they're domesticated now - won't be too stressed by daylight as they'll be used to it...

i'm not usually PC but for some reason it just gets my goat.

 

[Groyne Strain]

I concur with Cyril. Surely an owl would prefer the celebrity status amongst the goths and chavs loitering by the Rossi ice cream stall and eating the odd bit of Nando's and steakbakes than being pursued by Bill Oddie and a diet of rodents that have run across dog and cow ****-strewn fields?

I suggest the Owl Man punch Oddie's fcuking lights out sharpish, the do-gooding ****, in order to give the RSPCA a timely warning.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

i'm not usually PC but for some reason it just gets my goat.

Must have been a f*cking big owl to have got your goat!...

 

[SUFC_Al]

Must have been a f*cking big owl to have got your goat!...

:hilarious: my goat did suffer rather!

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

:hilarious: my goat did suffer rather!

Well if it makes you feel any better - it's a bit of a fallacy that owls are completely nocturnal. Of the three species that the paper mentions Owl man as keeping, two are mostly crepuscular (out at dusk/dawn), and the Little Owl he is pictured with is largely diurnal (out during the day) because they can't compete with the nocturnal Tawny Owl (which the paper doesn't mention Owl man as keeping).

Of course it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility for the Echo to get things wrong - or for Owl man to 'selectively' list for the journo the species that he keeps so as to avoid criticism. But I'd probably trust the expertise and knowledge of someone who pretty much devotes their lives to their chosen species, than to animal loving do-gooders who generally know f*ck all about anything except that animals are cute and we should save them all (but maybe not the ugly or unpopular ones)...

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Well if it makes you feel any better - it's a bit of a fallacy that owls are completely nocturnal. Of the three species that the paper mentions Owl man as keeping, two are mostly crepuscular (out at dusk/dawn), and the Little Owl he is pictured with is largely diurnal (out during the day) because they can't compete with the nocturnal Tawny Owl (which the paper doesn't mention Owl man as keeping).

That's some great Owl knowledge there, Mr. Weir!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Couldn't give 2 hoots!!

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

That's some great Owl knowledge there, Mr. Weir!

I'm no owl expert - there's probably only enough room in this town for one of them - but I do love nature...

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

I'm no owl expert - there's probably only enough room in this town for one of them - but I do love nature...

Shame, I had visions of you and the Owl Man duelling it out for supremacy to a soundtrack of Sparks - "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" :p