Oct 8, 2012
Grown ducks experience water for the first time, don’t like it at first
Recently the folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary rescued over 130 birds from an animal hoarder who had kept them in woefully inadequate conditions, to understate it. When some of the ducks were shown to a pond for the first time, they were quite certain it wasn’t for them, but then…
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Why do peeps gotta be hoarding ducks?
I’d say they took to it like ducks to water.
Cute music doesn’t take away from the fact that these poor ducks are enduring a traumatic event. Forcing an adult human into the water in this fashion, pin an effort to force them to “learn to swim” say, would land the perpetrators in jail. These ducks were clearly not entering the water willingly!
That’s not the same thing. Humans are not natural swimmers. If you toss a child in the water it will probably drown. Ducks are natural swimmers, which is why none of those ducks were drowning even though they’d never been in the water. The fear they showed was fear of the unknown. Once they were there they seemed quite happy with new sensation of swimming. Ducks SHOULD be swimming. It would be even more tragic if their hoarded past deprived them of a life in the water.
Steve, are you serious?
This is a great video and I totally agree with everything about these ducks. So cute–splashing and having fun for the first time.