Repost from another board I visit. This shit has been cracking me up for the last 4 hours.
A Florida family bought a Christmas Tree, and found a little surprise inside. They had waited five days to decorate it, and when they started they discovered a tiny owl hidden inside the tree.
The tiny little screech owl was taken to a local bird sanctuary, which soon discovered why the owl had been quietly hiding in the tree. It’s feathers had a very strong odor attached to it, and the owl looked quite odd. Blood tests confirmed it.
The owl was high as a kite. Stoned. Little guy had been eating marijuana. And apparently really high quality marijuana because he was still stoned out of his mind days later. This was a first for the animal sanctuary.
And the story has happy endings for all. The screech owl, appropriately named ‘Cheech’ has made a full recovery. The Pelican Man’s Bird Sanctuary was in dire need of funds to continue operations. The publicity of the story brought in much needed donations to keep them afloat.
And little Cheech was released last Thursday. I’m sure he had serious munchies for some mice.
Stoned dogs are fairly common at vet clinics (my wife works at one). But dogs will eat pretty much anything, I’m curious how an owl would ingest marijuana. Maybe it stumbled upon some (very easy to catch) mice in some remote corner of a national forest.
Snooty pedantic comment for Bull: Ahab wasn’t the whale.
Bonus snooty pedantic commend for Bull that he will likely find useful at some point in the future when using the ‘Wherefore are thou __?’ idiom: Wherefore means why.
:)
-Tom
P.S. Owls are awesome!
Edit: for Johan O, who won’t even cut a guy a little slack for a typo!