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Show 1 B ( PET OWL CAUSES j FLURRY OF EXCITEMENT Two pet owls belonging to a Milford youngster escape! their cage and caused a flurry of excitement and apprehension I last Friday, as they stared "owl-ishly "owl-ishly at onlookers and belligerently bellig-erently ruffled their feathers and "puffed up" when approached. ap-proached. The birds belong to Larry Kinross, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kinross, and they hopped away with short clipped-wing flight attempts during their Friday morning exercise ex-ercise period, landing on a fence in the "rear of the Dan Hutch-j ings residence. There they spent ( the day, glaring at curious spectators, spec-tators, while Larry frantically , searched the neighborhood for ( his pets. Early Saturday he found them, hiding under a woodpile by the fence. j Larry and Billy Rogers, his 14-year-old pal, found three I baby horned owls on the West Desert about a week ago, run-rfing1 run-rfing1 in circles around their dead mother's body. The mother owl had been shot. They captured cap-tured the young owls, and placed them in a cage in Larry's back yard. Each morning he takes them out for an exercise walk on the lawn, and one escaped during its morning walk, and has not been found. He feeds them raw meat, hunting jackrabbits for their dinners, and augmenting the wild game with meat scraps from the kitchen. |