IMAGINE THIS HAPPENING IN YOUR HOUSE:
Putting up a tree is one of the best Christmas traditions, but people don't expect to be bringing the wildlife in with it!
Savannah Burgoyne was taking care of her baby Wednesday when she heard something in the fireplace. Later in the day, their dog got nervous and howled. A little while later, when Burgoyne went into the kitchen, she found herself face-to-face with a barred owl.
'I walked into our kitchen, and there was a huge owl sitting on our baby's highchair,' she said.
Then the bird knocked off the star atop the family's Christmas tree and declared himself the king of the house.
Here's where I'd make a joke about that girl receiving her letter to Hogwarts but this is a Christian site and I don't want to offend the homeschooled Baptists.
Thankfully, the bird was able to find his way back home:
She Facetimed her husband, who had taken their 3-year-old and 6-year-old daughters to gymnastics. Jason Burgoyne called the Animal Welfare League of Arlington.
He got home about the same time Sgt. Spencer Murray arrived at the house. Murray wasn't expecting an actual owl, but a much smaller bird that they'd mistaken for an owl.
'When I walk in, lo and behold, there was an owl,' he said.
The family had opened big doors in the room, but the owl didn't fly out. Instead, it flew from treetop to the kitchen and back.
Sgt. Murray waited until the bird tired itself out, then took it outside and released it.
They could've at least given him a Christmas cookie or something while he was hanging out!
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