Wesley the Owl

There is a great book called Wesley the Owl. It's the true story of a biologist, Stacey O'Brien, who was asked to take care of a four-day old Barn Owl and she ended up keeping him for something like 19 years.
Yes, in her house.
The book is written by Stacey and is a great account of her life with Wesley. It's funny, it's endearing, but I do warn you, there are some parts that are very descriptive about how she gets the mice she has to feed Wesley.
(Let's just put it this way: Barn owls need full mice as meals in order to thrive and get the proper nutrition). Over his lifetime, Wesley eats something like 28,000 mice, and Stacey has to find a way to get those mice, kill them, and feed them to Wesley.
But this is a great book, nonetheless, and I highly recommend it. It's very intoxicating. I can't put it down!