Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer has had a wild few weeks since becoming a first time head coach with the Dallas Cowboys - both on the field and at home with multiple animal incidents
08:40 ET, 01 Nov 2025
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Brian Schottenheimer spoke about the incident in his home this week
Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer has spoken out on what exactly happened after his wife shared an image of an owl wreaking havoc in their Texas home this week.
The first time head coach has led Dallas to a 3-4-1 start to the season with a team that was expected to struggle after trading away Micah Parsons, with his offense impressing throughout the first half of the campaign.
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After his second game as head coach, Schottenheimer revealed that he forked out thousands in a scary incident after his two dogs were bitten by a snake. And this week, his wife posted an image of an owl getting into their home - needing animal control to come down and release it - while Schottenheimer himself joked he was leaving his wife to deal with it.
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Schottenheimer had been away from the home in his condo while looking over the game film ahead of the weekend, explaining the situation on Friday.
Speaking on the social post post that had gone viral, Schottenheimer said: "I don’t know if the owl was looking for the snakes (that recently bit his dogs) or what was going on, but it’s actually the story of a coach’s wife.
"So I’m in game plan meetings last night doing some red zone stuff and I leave the meeting about 10 o’clock and I go back to my phone, and I literally had 72 text messages on my phone. Seventy-two. I’m a popular guy, so that’s nothing abnormal," he joked.
“But it literally started with a text from my son to his mother saying, ‘There’s a big hawk-sized bird in here,’ and I began to look down and there was an owl. My son was doing some work and he had the sliders open and all of a sudden an owl came (into the house).
An owl had entered their home this week
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An owl had entered their home this week
"We’re not very outdoorsy people and so he wasn’t really quite sure what to do, so he called my soon-to-be nephew, who’s marrying my niece, and the two of them together, Frick and Frack, tried to figure it out. They couldn’t do it. All they did was piss it off.
"And so in typical coaching fashion, I called my wife and I said, ‘Honey, I’m going to stay at the condo tonight, you got this.’"
The family called animal control to help remove the owl from the home after flying around their kitchen and living room.
He added: "But they got the owl removed. The owl has been returned to its safe domain. They called animal control. A gentleman came with a net, like a pool net. I might have to look at that as another job. Just kinda become an animal control guy. I’m so experienced now with wildlife in and around Dallas!"
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The Cowboys will face the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football in Dallas this week.
They will look to bounce back from being defeated by the Denver Broncos, who put up 44 points against them.
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