So if you have been following me on Facebook or read my blog, you should know that a duck thought we would make a good family to adopt. Then again, I think it was more like, the fact that it liked the yard.
We haven't come up with a name for this duck really. I call it Duck, Princess calls it Herbert or something like that, and Jokester calls it Quakers. I know, how original right? Superman just calls it Duck too.
Anyhow, now I have a duck that I have no idea what to do with. Not even sure if it's a boy or girl. I thought I saw a curly tail feather, but now I don't. What I do know is that it's a younger duck, I guess maybe close to a teenager type age. It acts like one that's for sure! You see it likes to tease the dogs. It knows just how long the leash is and will come waddling up just out of reach and sit there and stare the dogs down. When they get bored with trying to get the duck and turn around and walk away...it will start to follow them. They of course figure out that it's following them and will turn around and the game starts all over again. Silly duck, it needs a friend that wont eat it.
Another thing with this with this duck is that it doesn't seem to like to swim. I got it a pool and filled it up and...nothing. It's a really big water dish. However Duck does LOVE mud. My white Pekin is black. Every chance it gets it's digging in the mud. Occasionally it will let me spray it down with the hose, but that doesn't really help. This duck needs a bath, and if I could catch it...it would get one.
Speaking of catching it, Superman managed to get it cornered in the garden. He was hunkered down like the catcher for baseball. He opened his arms wide like he was going to hug the duck, and Duck ran right into him, and knocked Superman down and waddled right over him. It was hilarious to watch, and I wish I would have gotten it on video.
Yeah, so now I have myself a sassy duck, and sassy it is. There are days when it will listen to me and follow me, then there are days when it just wants to play tag. Back talking all the way. What I'm going to do with it, I have no idea, but I swear I will get it in the pool...eventually.
