And officially I became a zoo

the little stinker

Today my house officially became a zoo. We have a baby duckling. At first there was 5 now there is one. No I did not kill them. We got a call from my sister in law that her friend had some baby ducks. She had found them under a trailer at their warehouse. After searching for the mom and not being able to find her they shooed the ducklings from under the trailer and they ran straight into the warehouse. once cause she brought them home and called around to rescues. These rescues said and I quote " leave them by a pond and if they die it is the circle of life." Really!!!!! WTF!! So my sis in law called us (apparently my husband has raised one before). When her friend got home 3 of the ducklings had died, when ken picked them up one of them did not look so good. It died within 5 min of being there. so now we are down to one.

After preparing the food and cleaning the container we set it up in the bathroom with a heater (what a headache that was, luckily i remember we had one that has a auto shut off and on when it gets to a certain temp). It (we don't know if it is a boy or girl yet) curled up in the animals and went to sleep. We closed the door turned off the light and went to bed ourselves. This morning Ken went downstairs to get it while I do the morning routine with my zoo. Came back in and he went out side with it. After i was done doing the meds and my own stuff I went outside and it was in the pond. Apparently Ken was picking it up and it jumped and ran to the pond. Not knowing if it has oils yet on its feathers (it might drown if not) it was a scramble to get it out. Then once out it ran under the deck. yes it was a whole 30 min project getting it back into the container. Now it is happy and eating the food with Ken on the deck. Uggghhhh you know at this point I think Kids are easier.