Today, we just added two more mouths (beaks) to feed. The kids have got Guinea Pigs, the wife has got half a dozen chooks and I have got umpteen fish in my aquarium and fish pond, but you can't hold fish...
The girls went and picked two ducklings which were supposed to be for me but kids being kids they wanted to name them and claim them. They are real cute and deserve proper names but my youngest daughter insisted on calling my lovely duck 'Quackers'. Now don't get me wrong, it's not a bad name but it has been used before and certainly lacks originality. I suggested that we call them Salt and Pepper because of their colour (the yellow one will grow up to be white and the other one will be brown), so now we have Quackers and Pepper which doesn't sound right to me.
The dog loves them and can't stop staring at them, he puts his nose an inch from their beaks and dribbles all the time, he is one strange dog but in his mind he is guarding them from danger and neither jealous or posessive.
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