{"id":4249,"date":"2012-05-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2012-12-29T02:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:16:34","slug":"hedwig-and-owl-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/hedwig-and-owl-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedwig And Owl-Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052012_0822_HedwigAndOw1.jpg\" width=\"629\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The end of the Harry Potter movies has led to the widespread abandonment of pet owls reports David Paul:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was a surge in the number of owls purchased after the first Harry Potter film came out. In the films, the titular character has a Snowy Owl named Hedwig.<\/li>\n<li>However the birds are difficult to care for. They live for up to 20 years, cost about \u00a3900, and ideally require a 20 foot aviary.<\/li>\n<li>As the movies have come to an end, owl-owners have become tired of cleaning up after the birds and are returning them to sanctuaries.<\/li>\n<li>One rescue worker says that the number of owls she has to look after has gone from 6 to 100.<\/li>\n<li>There are fears that some owls have been released into the wild illegally where they will have likely starved.<\/li>\n<li>JK Rowling, the author of the series, has asked fans to refrain from purchasing owls as pets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about Rowling&#8217;s proposed alternative, the legality of keeping owls as pets, and how this relates to The Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/hundreds-of-pet-owls-abandoned-after-840299?mobile=false\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/hundreds-of-pet-owls-abandoned-after-840299?mobile=false\">Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the Harry Potter movies has led to the widespread abandonment of pet owls reports David Paul: There was a surge in the number of owls purchased after the first Harry Potter film came out. In the films, the titular character has a Snowy Owl named Hedwig. However the birds are difficult to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052012_0822_HedwigAndOw1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}