During the latest “Pest Talk” radio show on pest control in Santa Clarita, a wildlife removal specialist named the one creature that scares him on the job: owls.

Cardon Ellis of Unipest, the show’s host, was joined by Frank Ortiz of Advanced Wildlife Removal to talk about why owls are “super creepy.”

“There’s a creature that actually scares me: owls,” Ortiz said. “It’s super creepy because it’s not (like) a raccoon. You can be kind of rough with a racoon. You can’t be rough with an owl. They’re kind of delicate in a way.”

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Also unlike raccoons, owls don’t usually submit when Ortiz arrives to remove them from an attic or other space. 

“The raccoons, a lot of them back down, they run from you, they’re scared,” Ortiz said. “But with the owls, they just don’t back down, and they’ll go into their defensive pose where their wings spread out and then they start rocking back and forth and hissing at you.”

One particular call involving an owl stood out in Ortiz’s mind, when an owl got inside a man’s unoccupied second home through the chimney and “destroyed” the entire house trying to get back out. 

“The owl was dead on the floor when we got there and the house was destroyed — books off the shelves, vases fallen everywhere,” Ortiz said. “Everything in the house had droppings, feces, urine all over it. Stuff was broken, the bedspreads and everything was horrible.” 

Ortiz and his team removed the owl and even cleaned and disinfected the house for the man. But when they came back the next day to finish the job by sealing the chimney, they were greeted by another unwelcome visitor. 

“We go back the second day and there’s another owl in his fireplace,” Ortiz recalled. “He’s lunging at the fireplace glass… So we open the fireplace and we just put a sheet around the owl and grab it by hand and pull it outside, and we got to let it go. But it’s super gnarly how quick they lunge, and their talons at the same time, … (it) is pretty intense.” 

To watch the full episode of “Pest Talk” with Unipest, click here for the extended YouTube video. 

Ed. Note: This article is a KHTS Community Spotlight for Unipest.

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