Thursday, 6 September 2012

How To Train Your... Duck?!

I wake up early many mornings to work out but guess what I end up with? Blogging! My family has been suffering from my healthy diet lately because I mostly cook healthy except for some treats. But we have a bigger problem, reader! Caution! This post contains unlimited amount of wrongness and cuteness!

My Swede friend Per engaging an interesting convo with Buddy about a vegan cat during his visit to our place.
 We are living in a four floors villa which a villa can perfectly turn into a cottage house when it's in wrong hands.Trust me with this one. Last year we used to keep ourselves busy with growing plants in garden but this year we decided to discard the garden and got some animals... TO PET! Yes, we got 6 geese and a duck to pet. Currently there's daddy&momma geese and 4 children and the duck.


Daddy goose pictures himself as Don Corleone and managing also us with cats and 3 dogs, not only geese family. We prefer to call him Suleiman, after the famous Ottoman sultan and momma goose is called Hurrem as his wife. I know this is very wrong but they are just so cute. They have their own life and territory (like.. the whole garden?) and they're happy with it. They don't let dogs to go out to garden, however we encourage them doggies are just so scared of this tiny Corleone family. But well, they handle their business delicately. They don't react as long as you don't step into their territory.


If there's one big mess, it's called Buddy the duck aka drama king. He's the Niko Bellic and shame of the whole duck nation. A duck only could be that lunatic. He walks around as if he owns the whole porch since Corleones also doesn't let him to step a foot into garden. He would come after you everywhere not to be alone but also beats the hell out of you by nibbling on your toes for no reason or thank you with a bite attack when you feed him or fill his pool for him. I don't want to give him away to a farm since I don't want him to end up on someones plate. That's why I decided to train him.


I ran a research about dealing with aggressive ducklings and found out that you need to be a bigger bitch and alpha duck if you want him to respect you at least. How to show him who is the boss? Of course I'm totally against violence and these methods I found are kinda fun.


First they say he's trying to take your attention. It can't be the case since he's always like the center of attention. As per, duck people says I gave him a toy to keep him busy. One of those things that makes the annoyng sound when you press. It kept him busy a while. Second thing to do was, spreading your arms to the sides and walking towards him to show who is the boss. Well, it's kinda difficult to look serious while doing a Titanic pose in front of that little fellow.


The last and the most difficult mission to train this dragon is to ride him! YES! You pretend to mount him and hold him down gently and squat a little or kneel down to prove your superiority. Of course I should add try not to be seen by neighbours for their sake and not to break them or labelled as sex offender. Tsktsk... That wouldn't be nice.


Just to warn you those tricks doesn't work on dogs :D
I've been riding my Jack Russel for years and she seem to enjoy it a lot. Riding a Jack Russel could be tricky. You pretend to mount it and then jump forward with her as she runs and hold her collar gently. I also shout "Yeeehaaaw!!" and punch the air. It appears to be so motivating. She's a jolly one who gives high fives and she jumps on me licks my face when we're done.


Another good method is, when she's laying on her back after a good meal, I just jump on bed and straddle her as she's facing me. Of course no weights given on the tummy, just standing on my knees. I take her hands in mine and pretend to ride while tickling her and singing Rossini's William Tell Ouverture. She enjoys it big time. I also taught her some ballet moves, when I say "C'mon girlie! Let's do some ballet!" She stands on 2 feet and gives me her hands so I help her to spin around and when she's done, she gets a big sloppy kiss as a treat and sometimes doggie biscuits with big applauds. She also applauds herself. Since I'm totally against circus kind of organisations it's also nice to see how pets can do funny stuff when you teach them with games and treats. So do you have pets at home? Tell me how do you train them!!

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