# Help! We found an owl. It looks healthy but not flying. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 14, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703 "2007-10-14T18:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/21 "2007-10-16T11:14:22Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] It could be a mere cigar, or children’s software. On the other hand, if it hoots in iambic pentameter, you’ll know it is naught but a Bard Owl, forsooth. [/QUOTE] Owl say! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/22 "2007-10-16T14:48:28Z")
☹ The owl did not make it through the night. ☹ I’m going to give the body (and anything that touched it) to the conservation department today, on the off chance they want to do an epidemilogical study. Based on where I found it tough, it was probably hit by a car. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/23 "2007-10-16T14:53:39Z")
Awww, sorry to hear the bad news. But if it’s any consolation, you provided him with a quiet safe place for him to spend his last hours. Better that than freezing cold on the side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/24 "2007-10-16T21:47:09Z")
Christopher, so sorry about the owl. You did your best to try to help him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/25 "2007-10-16T23:59:02Z")
i’m sorry to hear that. poor little guy. i’m glad y’all brought him in and gave him a nice place for his last hours. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703/26 "2007-10-17T00:32:33Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] ☹ The owl did not make it through the night. ☹ I’m going to give the body (and anything that touched it) to the conservation department today, on the off chance they want to do an epidemilogical study. Based on where I found it tough, it was probably hit by a car. ☹ [/QUOTE] Sorry, I know that crappy feeling. I tried to save a couple of baby possums a few years ago. I fed them canned milk from an eyedropper, put them in a shoebox w/ a heating pad underneath, but they didn’t make it through the night. I was hopeful, because they ate well, but they were very tiny, probably not more than a day or two old. The mother was hit by a car near my house and I found them clinging to her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-we-found-an-owl-it-looks-healthy-but-not-flying/422703.md?page=1)