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Mr. Hoots is a owl that was living at the Springfield Bird Sanctuary.

When Lisa was volunteering at the Springfield Bird Sanctuary, she was looking after Mr. Hoots. Lisa found that Mr. Hoots has been injured six times before that time and wondered why. When the Bird Sanctuary closed down temporarily due to all the birds flying away, Lisa temporarily adopted Mr. Hoots to stop Cletus from taking and eating him. Lisa quickly found that Mr. Hoots was a menace. He turned her homework into a nest and then tried to carry Snowball II off. Later, when Lisa was taking Mr. Hoots out to try and strengthen his bad wing, he attacked Sherri and Terri.

Lisa took Mr. Hoots to The Veterinarian where the veterinarian told Lisa that whilst his wing was healing nicely, the owl was a jerk, which was probably why he had been injured so many times. As Lisa left, she tripped over due to her shoelaces having been tied together by Mr. Hoots. This reminded her of Bart and gave Lisa an idea of how to deal with the owl. Lisa started using reverse psychology, telling the owl to not do what she actually wanted him to do. This led to Mr. Hoots doing those things...