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Moms need kindness, too (TheStar.com link)
May 13, 2009 04:30 AM

As I biked along Queens Quay West last Sunday morning, I had the opportunity to help a mother duck get her six ducklings across the streetcar tracks and into the lake.

Thank you to the motorists and streetcar drivers who stopped for the ducks.

Thank you to the girls in the pet shop who gave me a box top and food for three ducklings I found five minutes later who got left behind, and needed to be carried to the lake.

Thank you to the passersby who stopped to help me reunite the baby ducks with their family when they ran away into the bushes.

And thank you to the maintenance man who helped me catch the one remaining duckling that just would not swim toward his family, and place him safely with them.

It was 45 minutes out of my day, but it brought strangers together and showed that people still care about animals, even when it is just one baby duck. It made for a happy Mother’s Day.

Colleen Arsenault, Toronto

Thanks to Colleen for taking the time help the family of ducks safely cross to the waterfront, and for re-uniting the lost ducklings that you found!

Later that day, we found another duckling on the sidewalk… no doubt from the same flock. We released it into the harbour. We didn’t find the flock but the duckie was calling for mommy so we watched him for a while. The next day we saw the mother duck with her nine ducklings. We hope the one we released was part of the group!