In most countries it is illegal to keep an owl unless you have a special permit.
Those permits are usually only for specific purposes like rehabilitation, breeding strategies, or education. In these cases, the owls require proper facilities and their handlers proper training.
Owls are not pets, and even if they were, they would be terrible to keep as pets:
- Owls are destructive, messy, and don’t do well in homes
- Owls need lots of space for flying around
- Owls projectile-poop and it smells bad
- Owls cough up skeletons and fur from the animals they eat
Owls are wild animals with wild instincts and should not live in captivity.
For the reasons above, please do not send links to pictures of owl cafรฉs, or people keeping pet owls, thank you.
