Friday, April 18, 2008

the duckling


okay so i had the coolest thing happen last night. We got home to my house to see my dog awkwardly running around the pool chasing something that was swimming in it. We ran outside to see what was going on to find a little baby duckling swimming around in our pool! We have no idea how it got left without its parents since ducks never fly carrying their babies so we are assuming my dog had scared off the other birds and left the poor baby!so we immediately called all these wildlife places to see what we could do and ended up getting in touch with this extremely nice lady who has been caring after about 40 birds at the moment and informed us how to care for it and keep it warm and said we could take it to her house! so for about an hour we made friends with our little ducky and i held him and pet him and fed him worms. He was soo cute! ahh. well we let him scamper around the house and all he did was follow me so i assumed i was the new mother, but unfortunately we had to take him to the lady to be raised with other birds since ducks are social birds. I learned so much when i got to her house! she showed me all the amazing birds she has been taking care of and all the wounded birds she was healing, even like resetting broken legs! Well this nice lady and her husband has a website and we have any oppertunity to help them, since they have so much to do with all those birds! They have to also pay so much for feeding all of them so i was thinking we could maybe do a fundraiser to get some money to donate to her for all she has been doing. Shes a really cute lady and if you want you can visit her website at wildwingsrescue.com for more information!

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