The artist just wanted to draw this as a joke.
||the owl is unconscious and will escape||
Why would they want to eat it in the first place though?
It's probably best not to find out XD
Infirmofpurpus of all people! The owl was his only friend!
Did you find this pic on Google or DeviantArt?
Google, I was searching for Vitriolix and it popped up along with a few others around it.
Well, those drawings were posted on DeviantArt, and the artist actually wrote a description for them. She doesn't explain why Infirmofpurpus caught and "cooked" (obviously he didn't XD) the owl, but the picture is just for lulz so it doesn't really need an explanation.
I'm not sure if the owl can be considered his friend anyway.
The owl became attached to him because he was disguised as a tree and smelled like fish after being in the cauldron (it seems that they decided against fish smell in the cartoon). But why it kept following him after his disguise was removed, I have no idea. In any case, it acts kind of stalkerish.
Stalkerish, eh?

I took a look at the picture on DA by the way but I forgot to check the description. Thanks for providing with an explanation though :Ρ
You can search "Asterix" fanart on that site, maybe you'll find something you didn't see before.
I just wish that the "asterix" search results weren't filled with horses and badly made redraws...
Horses?

I don't know. I search and found decent fan art like these few:
That was the Newest section
Why do horses that have no relation to Asterix pop up when you search for the latest submissions?