In Hoot, when the day of the groundbreaking for the new Mother Paula's restaurant finally arrives, Kimberly Lou Dixon, the actress who plays Mother Paula, gets a chance to speak to the crowd. As soon as the actress begins to speak, Roy heckles her. Mother Paula looks out over her glasses and asks, "Now, who said that?" Roy admits he was the one who spoke. He then tells her that he will never eat at a Mother Paula's restaurant again if she hurts the owls. Mother Paula is completely confused. She is totally unaware of the controversy that has been brewing because the company has tried to keep everything quiet. Roy invites the actress to check out the owl burrows. Soon, the protesting students are displaying their signs, one of which reads, "Mother Paula doesn't give a hoot about owls." Kimberly Lou Dixon finds this quite distressing. She declares she doesn't want to hurt the owls. As readers learn later, Ms. Dixon is a member of the Audubon Society, a naturalist organization that promotes birds, bird-watching, and conservation. When Roy first heckled her, she didn't know he was trying to save the owls, but within a few minutes, she has heard the story and is on his side.