When most people think of a pet, they consider the usual array of creatures, like dogs, cats, or fish. A few like small rodents like rats or guinea pigs. Some folks are into reptiles. And then, of ...

Lexie Echols received an urgent call from her sister-in-law in late May. Driving through green pastures southeast of Corvallis, something had caught her attention. A barn owl was trapped on a barbed ...