When I was doing wildlife rehab the baby barn owls were the fucking worst. Had a couple hatches in my closet a few times.
Absolute nightmare to deal with and its not like they are endangered so I was often questioning WTF i was doing.
On the cool side, once I was given a screech owl that couldn't be released and it was decided that he could be an educational animal. My job was just to get him used to being handled and used to weird situations... I took him every where, he was always in the mix.
Really cool little fucker.
Had him for 3 months and then passed him to a larger raptor group that had a strong outreach program.