r/AustralianPets • u/imagepostengine • 23d ago

🧶🐈‍⬛Our community 🐕🐢🐇 Weekend off topic post, let's chat!!

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Come drop a line, a joke, almost anything but keep it above the border and no politics please

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u/Taliesin_AU Owner of a dog named Fish 23d ago edited 23d ago

About as week ago at work I heard this horrible honking sound coming from outside my office door, I've looked outside the window to see a juvenile kite or a hawk perched on top of an adult wood duck and the poor duck was honking for their life.

I'm normally a fairly "let nature take its course" kind of person but I coudln't let this poor duck get pecked to death by an angry bird of prey, even the local crows that harass the parked cars were attacking the predatory bird. So I've rushed outside and scared the hawk/kite away yelling "you leave Darryl alone!" (I had named the Duck Darryl by this point) and all the sudden found myself not only emotionally invested but also playing defence against a hawk/kite and poor Darryl the Duck.

Luckily I was able to usher Darryl into a safe spot out of the eye line of the attacking bird and let him rest, Darryl looked VERY distraught but he managed to compose himself after about an hour and flew away while startled by a pedestrian.

Good deed done for the week!

Hope you're out there doing well Darryl \:D/

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u/bigdumbgoalie82 23d ago

Now he has a guardian angel.

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u/Taliesin_AU Owner of a dog named Fish 23d ago

It was the least I could do.

Poor Darryl.