This is such a lovely story. <3

i love this Photo essay but am sad to learn that Juju was scared off by a hawk. I like ducks but never considered that a duck could be a pet. hmmmm. I wonder how the cats would do with a duck brother or sister.

My sisters and I raised three duckmom-less duck children. Their names were Zephyr, KipThorne, and Petri. My duck (Kip) was mute. Never made a quack in his whoooole life. When they got older, we brought them to my best friend’s ranch, which has a very very large pond that attracts wild ducks. Zephyr and Petri are still alive (it’s been a few years), but poor Kip disappeared.

They swam in an ice cooler when we first got them. Then a little swimming pool. They loved lettuce and cat food (ate it whenever they encountered it). When they were duck children, they had those puffy little chests like duck children have, and feet that were ridiculously large. Too cute. I loved them very much.

My younger sister knew how to make them fall asleep. She would grab them gently, slowly flip them onto their backs as they lay in her lap, and then stroke their tummies. At first they would enjoy it, and in no time… they were out cold.

Duck powah!

It’s a wild world Juju! Take care

Ha! What a cute little girl! Good thing they have the duck diapers, I know she must get messy. That’s pretty cool. Good on those people for saving the duck.

OMG. DUCK DIAPERS. GET OUT. NAH AHH.

P.S. the rowans look almost like little JuJu there

We got 5 ducks, and two were rowans, 2 peekings, and 1 indian kind of duck that stands up tall instead of squating. well, the peeking ducks are white, so we named one Peek, and the other…aflack!! one of my middle names is ruadhan (pronounced rowan) so we named one of the rowans Ruadhan and the other Daisy (donald duck’s girlfriend). the indian duck we named squaw which is indian for wife…we have recently found out that squaw is a male.anyway, our 5 ducks live outside and make up a large ruckus whenever we come near. unfortunately, ducks will lay down in the snow and actually freeze to the ground in the winter, and they are unable to get up. i know many people who’ve had that happen to their ducks, and it makes me sad…we put our ducks in the dog kennel with lots of hay and corn, and they still make a ruckus when you come near. you’d think they’d be grateful that we feed them everyday, but NOOOO. also at our house is a notapond, which is smaller than a pond and dries up a lot. well, our ducks never noticed that was there, so we shepperded them there, where they were quite content. i swear they could tell we couldn’t get them, so they started to provoke us ‘hehe, humans can’t come in the water quack! quack!QUACK!!!’then they’d all sit in a little group out in the middle. spontaneously, they’d all just suddenly zoom off into opposite directions, i guess someone farted or something… my parents are always teasing me and saying they’re just fattening the ducks so we can eat them, lol. well, that’s my ducky story ( ‘ )=
QUACK!!!

awwwwwwww that’s what our duckies looked like as babes, except for we didn’t put diapers on them. and that’s pretty much what they look like now.

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