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post #1 of 21
7/17/08 at 10:38am
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: http://houston.craigslist.org/grd/757656575.html

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Originally Posted by craigslist ad
A duck has "adopted" our Clear Lake Area commercial office building as her home. She recently had 17 baby ducklings, but the local wildlife has reduced the number to just 13 in a little over a week. We are offering the baby ducklings free - but only as an entire group, and a safe home is a must! The momma duck would go with the ducklings until they can be weaned, then we'd like her back, please.

Email me soon before we lose more
Please tell me they aren't serious.

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post #2 of 21
7/17/08 at 11:29am
: that is awesome, i love it!
post #3 of 21
7/17/08 at 11:47am


mmm duck milk....

-Angela
post #4 of 21
7/17/08 at 12:22pm
Hmmm. Sounds like my 3yo wrote that. All mamas nurse their babies dontcha know. Snakes, owls, fish, & ducks? Sure!
post #5 of 21
7/17/08 at 12:42pm
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Unfortunately, being a biology professor who teaches this stuff, I think a lot of Americans don't know what it means to be a mammal...
post #6 of 21
7/17/08 at 12:49pm
Huh I always wondered where "duck breasts" on menus came from....
post #7 of 21
7/17/08 at 2:04pm
Darn, looks like they changed the listing. Now it doesn't mention the lactating ducks.

But, dude, you want someone to take the entire group of 13 ducklings and provide a safe home for them when you can't? I think they need to either relocate the mother duck with her babies to some kind of refuge or better wetland area, or count on having lots of ducklings each year.
post #8 of 21
7/17/08 at 2:16pm
Well...I for one thought it was sweet and didn't get the joke. Cute little nursing ducks!


























Yes, folks, I'm THAT slow...
post #9 of 21
7/17/08 at 3:47pm
Thread Starter 
Oh man, they deleted that sentence. They took all my fun. I wonder who told them ducks don't nurse? A friend? A random craigslister? I wonder what was said to them. Oh...the possibilities.
post #10 of 21
7/17/08 at 4:14pm
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Originally Posted by rmzbm View Post
Well...I for one thought it was sweet and didn't get the joke. Cute little nursing ducks!


























Yes, folks, I'm THAT slow...
You're not the only one.
post #11 of 21
7/17/08 at 5:25pm
When I raised baby cockatiels, I called it "weaning" when I was transitioning them from the baby food to seed and supplements.

Hopefully, that's what she meant....
post #12 of 21
7/17/08 at 9:07pm
While I don't want to see the ducks all messed with, it's kinda sad.
post #13 of 21
7/17/08 at 9:11pm
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Originally Posted by naupakamama View Post
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Unfortunately, being a biology professor who teaches this stuff, I think a lot of Americans don't know what it means to be a mammal...
Yeah.

I can't tell you how many people think that unfertilized eggs are potential baby chicks. Biology is confuzzling to folks.
post #14 of 21
7/18/08 at 1:51am
"weaned"....so when they can nibble the grass on their own?
My guess is that the mother duck would freak about having the babies taken and then would move on and just have more. If she went with them she'd probably stay until whatever the usual duck time is--"can fly from predators"?--and then just have more at the usual rate whereever she feels like.

at "we'd like her back"
post #15 of 21
7/18/08 at 3:23am
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Originally Posted by UUMom View Post
Yeah.

I can't tell you how many people think that unfertilized eggs are potential baby chicks. Biology is confuzzling to folks.
When I was a veterinary assistant, I got to field some of the most hilarious telephone calls. Once a woman called, all upset because her cockatiel had started LAYING EGGS--horrors! She wanted to know if we could give the poor bird something "so she wouldn't have to go through that." Then she told me that about a year ago her cockatiel had been around another cockatiel that had started laying eggs. She wanted to know if that was why hers had now started laying eggs, and if it would make her bird's eggs hatch!
post #16 of 21
7/18/08 at 11:27am
That's hysterical!
post #17 of 21
7/18/08 at 1:20pm
I was at the store the other day and in the toy aisle they had a set of baby animals. The duck had a bottle.
post #18 of 21
7/18/08 at 1:24pm
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I can't tell you how many people think that unfertilized eggs are potential baby chicks. Biology is confuzzling to folks.
We can hear you!

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...207&highlight=
post #19 of 21
7/18/08 at 3:19pm
that's great!
post #20 of 21
7/18/08 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by purple_kangaroo View Post
When I was a veterinary assistant, I got to field some of the most hilarious telephone calls. Once a woman called, all upset because her cockatiel had started LAYING EGGS--horrors! She wanted to know if we could give the poor bird something "so she wouldn't have to go through that." Then she told me that about a year ago her cockatiel had been around another cockatiel that had started laying eggs. She wanted to know if that was why hers had now started laying eggs, and if it would make her bird's eggs hatch!


I have a friend with a cockatiel named Steve. When "he" was 6, they found an egg in the cage. They thought about renaming her Stevie, but decided that if she had wanted a girl's name, she should have laid an egg sooner. So, poor Steve is still referred to as "he" (hard habit to break!) and it's amusing to watch visitors try to figure out why a "he" is laying eggs.
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