December 16, 2005

O Rly? "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." With picture.

Any monkeys in Florida get an owl high? Do tell.

posted by Paranoia Agent 18 years ago
  • He is sweet and feathery and I want him as my friend. I'll cut you in on the own semen, bernockle.
  • make that owl semen...gheesh
  • "Ha, have you ever like, really examined your feathers, duuude..?" Poor bird. My pupils ache just by seeing that pic.
  • Poor bird? He's going to try and get stuck in a christmas tree every year now!
  • Poor thing! I wonder how he got into that state?
  • O Tannenbong O tannenbong...
  • Nickdanger wins. Anyone got a link to the original o rly/owl thing? I keep seeing it around but I must have missed the reference.
  • here you go: via wiki I didn't know what it was either... "wtf is this Orlee thing?"
  • http://orlyowls.com/
  • thank you! i always forget wikipedia knows all.
  • Something tells me they were smokin da dope in that house and a lot of it, to boot. Or to hoot.
  • Actually, I call bullshit on this, because it was my understanding that animals other than primates cannot get stoned.
  • This was funnier than expected.
  • Love that they called him Cheech.
  • Dave's not here!
  • I used to have a dog that was a few bricks shy, and we always assumed that was because his original owner (a relative of mine) got him high a lot. So I'm pretty sure that at least dogs can get high.
  • "Actually, I call bullshit on this, because it was my understanding that animals other than primates cannot get stoned." To the lab! Seriously though, I knew some guys that would get their cat high all the time and the thing must have weighed a good sixty pounds. It would fall off their couch onto its back, which I'd never seen before. Good times. Not to sure about owls though. Further research is needed in the field.
  • What about catnip?
  • Yup, I'll chime in to say that I've definately seen cats and dogs affected by pot smoke (normally fairly sane animals stumbling around, falling off furniture, freaking out at invisible things, then crashing out for a while), but I'm not sure if they're stoned exactly, or whether they enjoy it much. Although I've known one cat that would follow the joint around the room as it was passed from person to person, apparently attempting to get near the smoke, I'm pretty sure it's not something a responsible pet owner would do deliberately...
  • I found myself wondering if hotboxing could hurt the little guy, especially since bird's respiratory system gives them two licks at each puff. Couldn't find anything on birds, but apparently cats and dogs like pot pdf.
  • Actually, I call bullshit on this, because it was my understanding that animals other than primates cannot get stoned. Dude, spiders like, smoke pot, you know and then they like... Um, I forgot what I was saying... Did you say something? Are you gonna eat that cookie?
  • Well, it was specifically the THC molecule that I thought only worked on primates, I know there's other compounds in there that affect other things.. yes I've seen stoned dogs.. good point about the tests on spiders and rats & whatnot.. hmmm
  • Ya, rly! o rly? ya rly. NO WAIIII! *cough* Back to your regularly scheduled Thread-age.
  • I have got a cat stoned in the past. I don't think she liked it much. Looked a bit parra...
  • rly orly
  • drjimmy11 god dammit man, that's the funnest thing I've seen for ages. Thanks.
  • drjimmy: you owe me for keyboard cleanup. The coffee came out nasal passages as if unbidden! Damn, that's funny!
  • I always found it interesting when running across large areas of wild weed in rural SW Wisconsin. They seemed to be something the dairy cows managed to eat quite a bit of when it grew in their pastures. It then made me wonder if whatever THC existed in the weed managed to to get into the local processed milk?
  • Owl's eyes are shaped like pears. /contributes nothing
  • Thanks for nothing captain!
  • It's what I do.
  • Owl bet you're cornfused!
  • Confused? I was snowed under!
  • Dont blame me, I took the pic from Paranoia Agent's link!
  • I may seem confused, but I'm just barn-my. That's why I'm screeching.
  • Man... don't miss the slide show. That owl had the squintiest eyes I've ever seen on a bird. Man. Get that owl some Visine and a pile of warm mice, stat - he's gonna be starving!
  • Dwhoode!
  • ?...mouse eats stash...? Owl then eats mouse...? This seems pretty far-fetched, though I suppose it can't be ruled out. Wonder what physical effects on the bird were? When cats or dogs ingest marijuana, it can kill them. Is the owl OK? Owls normally cast the claws,m feathers, and other less digestible stuff up in small balls - so why didn't the bird manage to do this with a [?presumed ingestion of?] indigestible weed? Frankly, I think Chy's call of bullshit is sounding better and better, the more I think about this.
  • A family member had a dog that ate a lump of hashish, this happened when I was a kid so it weren't my fault (I would never let that happen!) and it slept for about 2 or 3 days I think, but was none the worse for it apart from that. The animal lived to a very old age, so I don't think any kidney damage or other problems occurred. There are more compounds in the cannabis plant that affect the brain etc, but I was under the impression that the THC molecule was really only pitched at the human brain, but clearly that is incorrect as cannabinoid molecules exist in every mammal brain. However I just don't understand how the little owl could sit there for days under this condition, it is very strange. And anyway, how did it get stoned? Did it eat a mouse that had eaten Fat Freddy's stash, or something?
  • Maybe you're thinking of a particular kind of synapse that's specifically receptive to THC, Chy? I just assumed that stoners lived there and kept blowing smoke at the tree.
  • I have a theory that cannabis plant is symbiote to humans, but it's clear that I haven't thought it out well enough. The main parts of the theory fit well enough; the development of the spread of the plant mirrors the spread of humans by time and place, and the plant gains benefit from human consumption and spread, it has diverged into multiple strains by human hand. Human use of cannabis also began around the time agriculture and technological advance began, and the plant is not agreeable to birds and insects - at least it does not make itself as agreeable to them as other fruits. So my theory was that cannabis glommed onto human/primates as an evolutionary tactic, giving a head buzz and stimulating neuron growth via THC, while getting spread around in return. I have to do more thinking on it, clearly.
  • Yah, like you can think clearly on it. Wow, man. That's, just like, really CLEAR, ya know?
  • Are there hookah owls?
  • these are the owl days when grey feathered balls of wing and beak and claws at twilight barely miss the windshield of my truck and my heart triphammers wildly as I recall one not so lucky I tremble now and look around too dumb to stick my head out and yell after your swoop how despite yourself I love you owl ways
  • Best thread of 2005! /Koko
  • When I lived in New Jersey, each year an owl would sit in the tree outside my bedroom window, singing to me when I was trying to sleep. (Or so I liked to assume.) Most years, it was just one owl, chanting "hoo" in a deep voice, with a certain urgency. It was perfect for concentration, almost as though it wasa chanting "oom." Then, one year, two owls sang outside my window. Their voices were different, and there was a call and response pattern that was mesmerizing. Owl love?
  • Owl love you forever, dear...
  • O hoooo can justify the ways of Owl to Man? Owls hide their eggs in hollow trees far from the castiron frying-pan.
  • Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved; Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof Against the North wind; tired, yet so that rest Had seemed the sweetest thing under a roof. Then at the inn I had food, fire, and rest, Knowing how hungry, cold, and tired was I. All of the night was quite barred out except An owl's cry, a most melancholy cry Shaken out long and clear upon the hill, No merry note, nor cause of merriment, But one telling me plain what I escaped And others could not, that night, as in I went. And slated was my food, and my repose, Salted and sobered, too, by the bird's voice Speaking for all who lay under the stars, Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice.
  • ))) to ye, The Underpants Monster!
  • So who's going to do a version of Ginsberg's 'Owl? "I saw the best plumage of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical plucked, flapping themselves through the rook roosts at dawn looking for an angry mouse.....
  • this radio show has a great clip of barred owls. There are two of them, and they're talking . . .
  • Son't stop now, Abiezer, "twas just gettin'g good!
  • disappearing rabbit trick Great photo.
  • That's an amazing image. Picture worth a thousand words, and all that.
  • When I lived in rural New Jersey, there was a pair of owls which would sit in the tree outside of my window and sing to each other in lovely, hooty harmony. I was hoping the barred owl clip could allow me to identigy what kind of owls they were, but no luck.
  • > Great photo. Yes, stunning.