My little boy O’Malley will be 5-years-old on Wednesday.
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Remember when he was just a sweet little guy?


Well now he’s a big biter duck, but he’s still as sweet as ever. We spent some quality time in the yard tonight as you can see.

We also had a surprise call today. Our friend Peggy called and said a muscovy duck was taken in by PAWS. The duck was found abandoned at a park, too friendly and tame to survive there on his own. We told PAWS we could take the duck if it was a girl, but for people who aren’t too familiar with muscovies, it is really tough to tell boys from girls. After trying to get the duck to talk on the phone with me, we decided I should just come see it.

So tonight we drove over to PAWS to see what awaited us.

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This is what we found. Unfortunately he’s a boy.

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He seems like a very sweet boy, but we simply cannot have two muscovy drakes here at Flapper’s house (remember Turk & Rex?)


We apologized to this boy for not being able to give him a forever home… but then we decided to bust him out of the clink!

So he’s here, staying with us until Sunday. Our place is larger than this bank cage he was in. And he can enjoy his time at Flapper’s Hotel & Spa until he heads to his forever home on Sunday. He will live with a goose and some ducks on a pond, and get support with food. He should do okay there.

In other news, I have a new shin guard.

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Olly Astro has decided that sitting on my shin is a good spot to watch everything that goes on in the yard. She likes to talk to me, too.


We might get her a napkin so she can wipe her beak on it though.

Happy Birthday to my lovable dinosaur O’Malley. And all the best to this new muscovy drake staying at Hotel Flapper until Sunday. We wish he could stay, but since he cannot… we wish him all the best in his new adventures.

P.S. Flapper says good night.
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