I don’t assign human feelings to animals.
Despite the Disney love affair with anthropomorphism, and my personal respect of the work of Dick King Smith, (The Water Horse and Babe, The Gallant Pig) animals are animals and humans are humans. If anything, humans are more likely to affect animal traits than vice-versa. That said, I do
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The Peabody Hotel in Memphis parades a pair of ducks through the lobby every afternoon. Every 6 months or so, they get new ducks. Big whup!
The 4 black cayuga ducks of Two Mile Ranch can get on and off the little pond by themselves. Getting to the pond, has never been a problem, getting OFF
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There is almost nothing an amateur working alone cannot do, from building a house or a barn or a shed to stretching a fence and hanging gates. And pitted against his constructive and orderly efforts are the familiar antagonists of a small farm — age, weathering, hard use by animals, and the consequences of altering the landscape.
— , A Very Small Farm
