"Unnngh."
Posted on 12/15/2005 2:35:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
SARASOTA, Fla. -- A bird with a buzz found in a Florida family's Christmas tree is getting ready to go back into the wild.
The little screech owl was found in the tree, which the family had kept for five days before deciding to decorate it.
Animal control officers from Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary came to get the owl, and said they smelled a strange odor on it when they did.
"Curiously enough, the owl's feathers smelled very, very potently like marijuana," said Jeff Dering, of the sanctuary. "They examined the owl, looked at its eyes ... and the owl was, in the vernacular, stoned."
Blood tests confirmed the owl's state.
Sanctuary staff checked the bird out, fed him and named him "Cheech." They said he would be released in a few days.
The buzzing bird also brought an early holiday gift to the sanctuary, which was in need of more than $250,000. The attention the bird has brought has helped ensure the sanctuary's survival.
So, um... how'd they recognize the smell?
Dang owl-sniffers.
This is just so you.
They did a blood test on an owl?
birds do it, bees do it...
"Unnngh."
Truth stranger than fiction bump!
Were the people who had the tree smoking that much? I guess I'm naive. How did it stay stoned for 5 days?
Oreos and Doritos no doubt.
I see you pingel Owl_Eagle already. I think it will be a little while before he replies.
"How did it stay stoned for 5 days?" The owl kept hitting on the bat.
I was wondering the same thing.
At first I was going to ask if it 'inhaled'.
"Oreos and Doritos no doubt."
Wasn't chocolate chip pizza the oblgatory munchee?
Oops! That is an owl we are talking about - gotta have chocolate mousse. ;-)
even little owlies in the trees do it
You can't make this stuff up. Stranger than fiction.
Musta smoked a "hooter".
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