Photo by A Mixed Bag 2011
With a Quack, Quack Here
By Teresa Smeigh January 2016
We lived in a medium-sized home on the lake. We had a small beach out front. Ducks and their poop is messy. Who wants a messy beach. The kids however wanted ducks. The small fenced in section let them in and out of the small area we fenced off.
Eventually the ducks left and my kids were sad. We had friends with many home-grown ducklings and so we bought quite a few and closed up the lake end of the pen. They had beach and water.
I was afraid of them, cute as they were. My younger boy wanted to take them for show and tell. They had to be in a large box.
Finally he got a hold of one. We took a total of 4 of them and I was afraid they would get out of the box and into the car itself.
I had to take them home then. Uh oh.
We got them back in the box and I drove them home, drug the box down to their pen and just ripped it down the side and let them out. I was NOT touching those ducks.
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Ducks aren’t all they are quacked up to be. Good story 🙂
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Funny. They are probably afraid you too.
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they were brought there as babies without their mothers.
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Lovely tender story. Happy ducks make happy people!
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That was real life, thank you!
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Having a bunch of ducks loose inside a moving car sounds like a pretty reasonable fear to me! Not sure I’d want to touch them either.
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They peck too. That was real.
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Great story. I’m surprised the ducks let you take them for show and tell without much fuss. I don’t think ducks are bad but geese can be crazy. They went after my medium sized dog a few times when she got to close!
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these were baby ducks and domesticated, I still wouldn’t touch them.
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nice post, liked it
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Thank you!
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Oh, what we moms do for our kids! Nice story!
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That isn’t the worst thing we had to take in and I had to leave with. Ugh.
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Oh dear!
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Nicely written.
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Thank you!
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That’s really going the extra mile considering how you felt about them. They are cute, but cute doesn’t always make you want to pick them up! I’m sure the children were happy though.
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Yes the children were happy. He was into outdoor creatures especially those in the water. He took in turtles too. 28 and still loves catching them.
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