Of all the things for me to find in my back yard...

**Ducky** · 07-27-10, 07:30 AM

So I'm rudely awoken yesterday afternoon by my dog raising hell outside my window. She's using her 'tattletale' bark, which she does when one of the cats is being naughty - generally by slaughtering some other animal. I grab my robe, and my hubby who was in the living room, and we head outside. He beats me by about three seconds because I didn't jump off the back porch, being mostly still asleep and not fond of broken legs. "Well," he says, "this is unusual." I turn the corner and what before my bewildered and sleep encrusted eyes should appear, but a mallard. Yep, a duck was sitting under my bedroom window, beside the back porch, being called a weirdo by my dog. We stuck the dog inside, and using the "you come in from this way, I'll get him from that way" we shortly had in custody one mallard drake.

He seemed in fine health (if a bit dirty) if anything grateful to be away from the dog, although the glowing eyes in the pic now give me pause.

After a short deliberation, we decided to sneak him into the city's botanical garden where he can be happy with the existing mallard flock there. The duck pond is kept stocked with nesting boxes, food, etc etc and the ducks are free to come and go as they please. For all I know that's where he came from, it's less than two miles from my house.

He took to it like a duck to wa... yeah. That.

**Odd** · 07-27-10, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Ducky

He took to it like a duck to wa... yeah. That.

Jenna will have to work extra hard since you didn't actually pun.

Good save Ducky.

Nice pics too

**Jenna** · 07-27-10, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Odd

Jenna will have to work extra hard since you didn't actually pun.

Birds of a feather flock together!

**Buttercup** · 07-27-10, 10:02 AM

Excellent work with your duck relocation program!

**IMGreat101** · 07-27-10, 10:55 AM

nice save Ducky!

**IndianaFuzz** · 07-27-10, 12:05 PM

I don't know....maybe you should have eaten it instead....with the mango salsa!

**Ducky** · 07-27-10, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by IndianaFuzz

I don't know....maybe you should have eaten it instead....with the mango salsa!

I never thought of doing anything so mean and cruel.

I did however think about picking a duck up from the grocery store.

You and I are a couple of sick, sick carnivores.

**bayern** · 07-27-10, 12:38 PM

Lucky it wasn't this fella.

**Jenna** · 07-27-10, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Ducky

I never thought of doing anything so mean and cruel.

I did however think about picking a duck up from the grocery store.

You and I are a couple of sick, sick carnivores.

That would be cannibalism!

**Wolven** · 07-27-10, 12:48 PM

Nice save!

**Captain America** · 07-27-10, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by bayern

Lucky it wasn't this fella.

He's a carnivore too....

**Ducky** · 07-27-10, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by bayern

Lucky it wasn't this fella.

Yeah, gators are protected around here, so I'd have to call the cops

On the upshot I'd never have to worry about my dog again. She'd either be irretrievable via digestion, learned to climb trees, or would never, ever bark at anything ever again. Burglars would be so passe after this guy.

**Buttercup** · 07-27-10, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by IndianaFuzz

I don't know....maybe you should have eaten it instead....with the mango salsa!

Mmm, duck.

**Ducky** · 07-28-10, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by Buttercup

Mmm, duck.

Well, you DO call me Duckylicious.

**IMGreat101** · 07-28-10, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Ducky

Well, you DO call me Duckylicious.

waiting for RSA to comment

**Buttercup** · 07-28-10, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Ducky

Well, you DO call me Duckylicious.

Indeed I do, Duckylicious.

**Ducky** · 07-28-10, 08:35 PM

And to make the story more perfect, I got three new foster kittens today. The names that came with them, no lie, are Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Yes boys and girls, duck names.