Pansy houseducks problems

[SuperDuck]

The boys are afraid of the dark. Like toddler status afraid. If they don't come inside when the sun starts to come down, they start pounding their faces on the back foot until they are let in, quacking as if some terrible monster is pulling their feathers out one by one.

Problem #1. Chuck and Buck are pansies

Problem #2. We now have a nightly swim team practice change for Daddy Duck that's an hour away

Problem #3,4,5,6 and beyond.... We leave our house at 4PM and don't return until 830PM. Time change has it getting dark earlier and face banging starts around 6PM. Husband is out of town and unable to let them in.

Do I A. Bring them in at 345 and put them to bed early (they don't do food and water once in bed) or B. Let them bang their faces all night until I get home and force them to "buck up" and get over their fear of the dark? They have no worry of predators where they are in the yard so no worries there. They go out in the morning about 7am.

I know this is totally #firstworldduckproblems but keeping them in their cage for the afternoon/night seems so mean. But leaving their pathetic butts outside is just as cruel (to them). They love being inside and they get endless episodes of Spongebob while we aren't home. Is 4PM-7am too long for them without food and water?

And for your viewing pleasure, I present Pansy Chuck and Pansy Buck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any way you can have a light on where they stay outside? If not bring them in early you can always offer food and water when you get home.

They are the cutest things ever. Even if they are pansies.

 

[SuperDuck]

They have two lights.... the back porch and a flood light. It's not the sun. They don't care. The sky is dark!

 

[Kholts]

Do they have a coop outside? Even like a small dog house just to give them a “safer place” (by safer I mean they will feel safer in their minds). You could put it by the back door where they bash their faces wanting in? Maybe put a familiar blanket or something in the house so they get the idea?

Just a thought.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Then I'd bring them in poor boys need the security.

 

[KaleIAm]

They have two lights.... the back porch and a flood light. It's not the sun. They don't care. The sky is dark!

Lol <3

 

[KaleIAm]

I would bring them in early, too.

 

[SuperDuck]

Do they have a coop outside? Even like a small dog house just to give them a “safer place” (by safer I mean they will feel safer in their minds). You could put it by the back door where they bash their faces wanting in? Maybe put a familiar blanket or something in the house so they get the idea

Just a thought.

They have a quack shack and they hate it. In two years they've been in it twice .... and not by their choice

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well as we know from experience ducks do not like change and since they are use to being inside once dark they will possibly be scarred for life if you left them out. They are neurotic enough don't you think? lol

 

[SuperDuck]

Well as we know from experience ducks do not like change and since they are use to being inside once dark they will possibly be scarred for life if you left them out. They are neurotic enough don't you think? lol

Just a tiny bit