When I was little, it was common at Easter time for people to buy baby chickens and keep them for a while as pets. We did that once or twice, but I guess my folks either got to thinking the peeps were passe, or else it was that (big surprise here) I was a weird kid, because one year we got some baby ducks instead, and a few years later got a baby goose.
(It does explain a lot about me, doesn't it? Oh, well...)
The goose got to adulthood, and unlike the ducks, who when they grew up were taken to the lake at Long's Park and so got to live with many other ducks, we kept the goose until she passed away naturally some years later. We had a good sized back yard, and there was a small storage shed behind the house that we adapted part of to house her.
Huh... haven't thought of those pets for a long time now. I'll have to ask my sister if there are any photos of them stashed away somewhere. If so, I'll scan them and post them!
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Date: 2020-08-16 04:30 am (UTC)(It does explain a lot about me, doesn't it? Oh, well...)
The goose got to adulthood, and unlike the ducks, who when they grew up were taken to the lake at Long's Park and so got to live with many other ducks, we kept the goose until she passed away naturally some years later. We had a good sized back yard, and there was a small storage shed behind the house that we adapted part of to house her.
Huh... haven't thought of those pets for a long time now. I'll have to ask my sister if there are any photos of them stashed away somewhere. If so, I'll scan them and post them!