[Mirkwood]

Come on fella's.
Give me a break. You haven't had a Mirkys Wild Animal Kingdom update for ages.

First the owls.

Well to be fair. Owls don't make good pets. You can take that from me.
Why?

Well after the initial love wears off you have a very demanding creature living with you. They are un-tamable. No matter how many times you get them sitting on your hand,feeding etc they never come round and act even slightly friendly.
It's weird because they get all shirty if you leave them alone as well. You can't win.

The house is like an abattoir. I go to the market every week buying any mice that die in the heat. All the dealers know me now and we have a laugh.
One woman sells little chickens. I asked her if I could buy any dead ones she gets. How strange. Since I said that her chic mortality rate seems to have gone through the roof.

Owls eat everything. Skin,bones the lot. What they can't digest they hawk up in pellet/ball form and gob out on the floor. They need to do this to clean their stomachs so you can't get away with feeding them nice things like chicken breast all the time.

Personalities.

Well, Porno's one Barney is a bastard. It hates my guts bad. Won't let me near him. He's had a growth spurt and is one mean mother now. I tried to get hold of him last week and he took a chunk out of my hand. He can get fucked now. I'm never touching him again and he might be going on my Mirkys re-introduction to the wild programme if he isn't careful. Porno loves him to bits though. He acts like a baby with her. He does give her a bite now and then but she thinks it's funny.

Ollie my one. Well he's a nasty bastard as well. Hisses and plays up when you go to pick him up. He's fine with me once I get him on my hand though. He hates Porno and won't let her near him. She's threatened to kill him quite a few times and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in the pot.
My one does look the nuts though. Never get fed up looking at him.

Chatuchak Market.

As I said. I'm down there every week and they know me.
The owl dealer had a real beauty the other day and Porno wanted to buy him. I said no as he was a big one. Thought we have enough on our plate.

I've seen things for sale there that nobody would believe. For the mad animals you need to go out the back. They won't put them on show. I think there are police issues. I'm not sure if it's legal here to sell birds of prey like they do.

Anyway, snakes,mad ridge back dogs, snapping turtles, lizards, Eagles, Squirrels, monkeys, Crocs, crows, fish, spiders and owls. They are all here. I don't know what it was but I saw a wonderful black and blue bird for sale this week. I've never seen anything so lovely. Poor fukka must have been trapped somewhere.

Porno bought two Japanese fighting fish. To cut a long story short we now have 12.
They look the nuts as well. All different colors and if you get their tanks too close they do have a row.

If all goes well this month with work and we move, I'm buying a really big aviary for the owls.
OK, it's fair to say in UK or USA owls shouldn't be kept as pets.
Thing is though this is LOS.

Their life was destined to be shit anyway. If a Thai fancies an owl or an Eagle he will just buy one and stick it in a cage. End of.
It gets fed what it's given and probably dies. I look at it like at least we are doing our best.

The bloke told me he normally sells to Chinese who want to eat Owls and Eagles to gain sexual prowess

Or young Thai lads who want to fight them against each other.

So, there you have it. Thought this video might give you an idea of what my apartment is like now.