The Falconieri delle Orobie are a family from the town of Villa d’Adda in Italy, who got so enamoured with the barn owl a family friend gave their daughter, Martina, they decided to make the adoption of nocturnal and diurnal raptors their full-time hobby. Their sanctuary, which is in the middle of a forest, currently hosts 22 of them and became famous after a YouTube video of Martina petting Molla, one of their owls, went viral. We were one a few of the 11 million people that watched it. Consequently, we couldn’t fight the urge to go and see the lovely owls ourselves.