Show off your house ducks!

[Scovy Momma]

Yummy!

 

[napdognewfie]

The neighbor's daughter got cat scratch fever from a litter of feral kittens.

I have fostered over 350 animals over the past 28 years (no ducks so far). I was lucky not to have brought anything home that people or animals can catch. 2 years ago when I volunteered at the animal shelter we sprayed ourselves down good before leaving and I undressed in the basement in front of the washer and then showered before I went near my pets. It's sure not like it used to be. Next we'll be spraying ourselves before we go in the house.

 

[Scovy Momma]

That's how it was when I worked at the shelters. I was very diligent to not get my furkids infected so I'd change like that in the garage.
When I was a kid I was outside touching every living thing that would let me that wasn't human. (I've never been a fan of people) Never once did I get any disease, salmonella or even round worm.
It's so weird to think how careful you have to be when I distinctly remember kissing baby cows on gramma's dairy I grew up on or catching bullfrogs with bare hands & a flash light at night or hugging wild geese at Sly Park. My immune system must hate me for putting it through so much odd stuff.

 

[napdognewfie]

Actually kids who grow up in homes with animals and/or dirt do have better immune systems and less allergies. YES!

 

[Scovy Momma]

We had a lot of both

 

[napdognewfie]

I just prefer to think of it as how bad you would have been without the pets. My kid would probably have needed a bubble. Lol

 

[Amykins]

I just prefer to think of it as how bad you would have been without the pets. My kid would probably have needed a bubble. Lol

My sister currently has the flu because her 2-year old got it, then her older daughter got it, then her husband got it. One more reason to be happy I'm childless, LOL!

 

[JadeComputerGal]

My sister currently has the flu because her 2-year old got it, then her older daughter got it, then her husband got it. One more reason to be happy I'm childless, LOL!

I think you'd be a good mom, but one good thing about pets in general is that they don't fling themselves on the floor in the cereal aisle screaming that they're going to die if they don't get the new brand of cereal they saw on TV. Human children are challenging.

 

[napdognewfie]

And you don't get arrested for crating your duck. Lol

 

[JadeComputerGal]

And you don't get arrested for crating your duck. Lol

Not yet anyway. There are some nuts now who are pushing for animals to have the right to sue in court.