It's the Easter chicks all over again.

Every Easter, families buy chicks as Easter presents. After Easter it becomes too much of a hassle to care for the chicks and they ultimately are abandoned. Thus is the fate of owls after the Harry Potter series has ended. Hundreds of fans got the pet owls so they could be like the characters in the books/movies. Now though they are being abandoned and are causing problems in the eco-system. owls