Nice to meet all you critter lovers! I actually don't "own" any ducks, but I live right on the banks of a creek where there are lots of ducks, and we feed them from our backyard. We have named the regulars and have watched their duckly drama play out over the years. One of the funny things that happened was when I was down on the creek with a net trying to rescue one of our little females after a horrible attack from some drakes. (I had rescued her from a "gang rape" two years earlier and nursed her back to health in the back yard.) Anyway, here I am, 76 years old, standing on the creek with a net, and a police car pulled up. They had had a report that someone was trying to catch the ducks with a net. (I thought of all sorts of rejoinders afterward, but all I could think of right then was, "Yes, it' me!) They wanted to know if it was my duck, and after I told them our mutual history, they didn't arrest me!