I've heard of ducks falling in love with people...and when I enter the room, my drake has been rasping, flaring his head feathers, and dilating his pupils at me. The last few days, if I enter the room and sort of surprise him, he shoots straight up into what almost looks like a standing...
We live in Preston Hollow, a woodsy and creeked neighborhood in Dallas. Around noon on Christmas, our friend found one of our precious Rouens, Cupcake, dead on her back, feathers in a circle around her, with her lower belly cut open and a lot of her entrails dragged out onto the ground...