Ducks For Pets
The duck and drake above live next door to me and Sadie is forever jumping at them when they come too near the fence so you may be able to picture the horror on my face when we had Shadow and Sadie out on Saturday and the Mallard decided to fly over the fence for a visit. I was dumbfounded, but not Sadie she jumped so fast at that stupid duck and almost had it in her mouth before I got my wits back and yelled for her to stop. Bill finally got a hold of her and put her in the house before the stupid duck either lost it’s life or all it’s feathers from all the shaking Sadie would have done.
Sadie Guarding The Fence
I sit on the balcony and watch these ducks flapping their wings and squawking all the time and I’ve seen the Mallard take off in flight several times, once straight out into the alley road which cars like to speed down. I’m thinking this girl might want to make a responsible decision and have the wings clipped if she intends to keep them for 20 fricking years. That’s how long ducks can live and they are very sociable birds so you should never buy just one if your thinking about one for a pet. I know Sadie’s dying to have one, but I don’t think as a pet.
Duck Eggs
The big white duck started laying eggs last month and the first couple she laid on the sidewalk and they cracked open so neighbor girl had to hose everything down. The girl told me I’d have to try one when she started laying good and I had to politely tell her not in this life time, but thanks. I will usually try anything once, but duck eggs aren’t on my list, my brother said they have a strong taste when I told him about the eggs. She now lays them all over their yard and the girl picks them up and puts them in a pile and just leaves them, I guess she doesn’t want to eat them either.
Her kids wont even go into the backyard without a 2by4 to shoo them away and feed them because they’re afraid of them. Those ducks make a run at those kids and it scares them silly and that’s usually my cheap entertainment for the day. However when neighbor girl is out there they’re very docile and love her and follow her around except when the Mallard was learning to fly and looked like the Red Baron swooping down on her head while she was grilling something. I also found that very comical, “Oh look kids we’re having Daffy for dinner.”
I’m not a big fan of ducks for neighbors, but at least they don’t bark all day and night like the poor dog she had 2 years ago and neglected. I wont even start on that, I’m trying to be a nice neighbor now. She called me over to the fence the other day and made me touch one of her duck eggs even though I said no thanks, she insisted so I gingerly reached one finger out and touched it and recoiled because it didn’t have a shell it was just the membrane encasing all that gooey stuff, yuck it was weird all the rest have shells.
I was reading about why some eggs might not have a shell and found out that it just happens sometimes or it could be from lack of calcium or caused from stress. Maybe it scared her just as much when she saw Sadie almost grab hold of her companion as it did me. She carries on like crazy when that Mallard decides to go flying. I really don’t want to have to check my yard every time before I let my Sadie out so I guess I’ll just have to prepare myself to see Daffy laying sprawled all over the yard someday and feathers sticking all over our Sadie and wait for Bill to come home and clean up the mess.
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