AppleNouns and the First Duckventure

[AppleNouns]

I had been staying home on Fridays from my volunteer position to watch the ducks. This was the first Friday I went in, they'd been fine on their own before so I thought it would be okay.

I was all excited to go do some gardening with my babies. They'd been alone all day, so I was excited to hang out with them.

Go into the pen, Marius comes out like usual, I peek into the house...

Cosette isn't there.

She's nowhere to be seen, the fence hadn't been disturbed, no feathers our anything anywhere.

I don't know what happened but I blame myself. I should have put them inside last night. I shouldn't have left them outside.

Marius and I are both a total wreak, I looked in the woods for over a hour but not even a hint of a trail or feathers or anything.

I don't know what happened but I'm just so upset because it could have been prevented. I could have put them inside and I should have and now my baby is gone

She was so sweet and cute. It's all my fault.

 

[AppleNouns]

Closer inspection of the fence with family helping: fur around a few spots. We think it was a raccoon. Knowing doesn't actually make me feel any better like I thought it would. I probably missed it the first time around because I was crying so hard.

What can we do with one duck?
Either get more, which I'm very against at this point because we don't have safe housing, or give him to someone.

I don't want to give him away though...
I guess I'll just keep him with me as much as possible.

And we were just about to start building them a proper coop...

 

[AppleNouns]

 

[AppleNouns]

So, I posted pictures of them both in the kc forum. Someone said they look like they're both girls. Maybe Marius is more of an Eponine then. Who knows? I'll keep an eye out for eggs.