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Please tell me that there is no way that ds can have a duckling as a pet because I am starting to come round to the idea

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FrannyandZooey · 02/09/2006 21:41

Well, Milly Molly Mandy has one, so why not?

We have not got a farm, or a big back garden. But we are near the river and ducks do like it round here - our neighbours at the back have adopted three wild ducks who live in their garden most of the year round.

Please tell me why it would be stupid and bad, or I will end up getting one

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Thomcat · 02/09/2006 21:42

DUCK SHIT.
Slipping over in masses oh DUCK SHIT
Treqading in it and bringing it in the house, NOOOOOOOOOO

fattiemumma · 02/09/2006 21:45

you don't need to get one...just tell him that one of the wild ones is his to look after....let him go and feed them or wahtever.

if you get a duck you'll have to get a chick and call yourself Joey!

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FrannyandZooey · 02/09/2006 21:59

Oh duck shit, yes

It isn't very nice, is it?

We do feed the ducks, a lot, but Milly Molly Mandy has a duck who follows her to school etc and it is not quite the same, is it. He says if he can't have a duckling, can he have a baby hedgehog?

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Maddison · 02/09/2006 22:34

Think yourself lucky it's only a duck he wants - my DS1, aged 5 wants . . . .

an orangutan

So far I think I have got away with telling him we don't have enough room in the house

NotAnOtter · 02/09/2006 22:38

he sounds sooo lovely ...how old is he franny

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 09:27

LOL @ the orangutan

He is nearly 3 and a half, NotanOtter. I think he would be happy with anything living, really, he even tries to make the ants his pets (in between stepping on them), but I have lost enough pets myself, and I truly don't think I can go through the whole pet dying thing ever again.

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threebob · 03/09/2006 09:45

No, it's a good life lesson that just because someone else has one it doesn't mean you can to.

Also Milly Molly Mandy probably never trips in duck shit does she?

WideWebWitch · 03/09/2006 10:02

Could you fob him off with a snail?

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 11:29

A snail?

Blee.

Nope, nothing

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Greensleeves · 03/09/2006 11:35

I had a pet duck called Snowball when I was about 5

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 11:36

Pah! She posts here looking for sympathy about her appalling childhood, yet all along she had a duck a la Milly Molly Mandy

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 11:37
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Greensleeves · 03/09/2006 11:37

Nah, it didn't live long

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 11:38

Oh bugger

Ah well, at least you have your memories

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Greensleeves · 03/09/2006 12:14

it was very sweet though Franny, and very low maintenance. I don't remember shit being a major problem, it just did it in the garden like all the other birds

littlerach · 03/09/2006 12:31

Both dds have adopted smails in our garden.

the have a special plant pot to put them in, and feed them with weeds.

Thuing is, they're just empty snail shells really, but don't hink they've realised.

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FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2006 12:32

ROFL

a snail shell as a pet

Oh that is superb. That puts Greeny's low maintenance duck to shame

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littlerach · 03/09/2006 12:34

DD1 is a bit of a wuss, and it took sges to get her to pick up a snail. It was only a bit later that I realsied it was just a shell.

And now we have a pot of them.

They are v loyal. {smirk}

NotAnOtter · 03/09/2006 12:35

my ds3 is 3.5 and i wish i could keep him that way forever!!!

Charleesunnysunsun · 03/09/2006 12:37

LOL i keep asking for a duckling to live with our chooks but we can't!

If you got one you will need a supply of water big enough for it to swim on and a duck house secure enough for fox/rats ect to get in which are not cheap!

And yes they do shit a hell of alot and eat everything in sight!

But.....................

They are very, very cute

Charleesunnysunsun · 03/09/2006 12:37

sorry that was ment to say secure enough so other animals DONT get in!

ShowOfHands · 03/09/2006 13:38

A very good friend of mine had a pet duck when he was growing up and he used to take it for walks down the street. It just used to waddle along behind him and would come waddling into the house at the sound of the Corrie theme tune. Would then sit on the arm of the chair for half an hour and stare at the TV.

I kid you not. He was a lovely litte duck and had his own kennel and pond. Personally, I want a pig, but that's a different thread entirely.

BettySpaghetti · 03/09/2006 13:42

Our two want a goat (well actually its DP who wanted one first ).

I do love the idea but its not particularly practical at the moment.

Anyone here had one?

YellowFeathers · 03/09/2006 13:51

My Auntie and cousins had a pet duck a few years ago. When it was a duckling it had fallen down one of those grates that are on the edge of kerbs outside their house. The mother duck eventually left it and my cousin heard it squaking so took it out and kept it.
They used an old baby bath for it to swim in which was in a utilty room and it just wandered in and out of the garden. It loved company too. Would sit with you for hours and it had a great trick of walking backwards when it was going to poo, lol

It left of its own will when it was older but did come back every now and then.

Flamesparrow · 03/09/2006 13:57

I want a duck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sh*t, toddlers, and foxes seem a no-no though

(Not that that was at all helpful or relevant )