People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.