Update on Iris and Pompom Duck: Pompom wanted to be smart this morning. I heart her screeching in the house but she wouldn't run out. She carefully stepped out of the door trying to see if i was waiting for her - i hid behind the railing of the adjacent work-platform and when she came out, one step forward and gotcha!
Walking with a screaming, flailing, flapping, scratching and, yes, biting duck to the patio wasn't fun! Aparently i should print out the notes to myself with hand-size letters and attach them to the duck-house: »Don't wear a t-shirt when picking up PomPom DUCK!«
Or maybe i just grabbed the wire-brush under the shower, yesterday?
In the meantime Iris Duck managed to walk back into the duck-house and hid under the ramp to the upper level to no success. But she isn't scared of me anymore and actually snuggled with me on the way to my home-office. - Usual treatment with eye-drops and -ointment twice before i went outside to work in the garden later and let her loose to join the flock. She is definitely healing, here she is patiently sitting on my lap, waiting for the eye-ointment to distribute over her eyeballs.
Her left eye is still cloudy and i have very little hope that she can regain any vision back here. At least she doesn't seem to be in (much) pain compared to yesterday:
Her right eye looks very promising, she
saw the container with the cat-food, turned her head towards it and dug in!
Both eyes look more opaque than they are in fact due to the eye-ointment applied seconds before.
