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Photos 4,5, and 6 really look Photoshopped, and now that I go back, 2 looks suspicious as well. 4 - 6 are about enough to make me call BS. The outlines of the owls are too crisp. Whenever you're pasting an object on top of a background, it's a good idea to run the blur tool over the outline, especially the top and sides.
Maybe, but #4 looks especially suspicious. Maybe the light is omni-directional, but it looks as if a left light is casting a shadow on the dog's shoulders, while the owls cast no shadow at all and only the right owl's body is slightly darker on the right side. Also, even baby owl claws are pretty powerful, and doggy beds tend to be plush, yet the talons are making almost no indentation into the fabric. I suppose the owls are light and could be standing loosely on the bed, but raptors tend to grip.
I dunno. I'd put $5 on someone getting a kick out of hoaxing Yahoo and the U.K. site it came from, although I DO think the person has the owls and some of the photos are real.
I think the baby owls' downy fuzz is what gives them a bit of a white halo and makes them look Photoshopped to some people when they have light behind them.