Ducks and Dogs

August 1, 2007 6:17 AM

Ducks and dogs. They get along better than you'd expect.
posted by tylermoody (34 comments total)

Here's a page full of excellent duck recipes.
posted by bradth27 at 6:39 AM on August 1, 2007

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats ducks living together - mass hysteria.
posted by markdj at 6:45 AM on August 1, 2007

Earlier this evening I had some of the tastiest duck I've ever eaten, served over perfectly cooked and delicious soba noodles, at a little restaurant about 2 minutes walk from my house, run by a fine and gregarious middle-aged lady (we say "oba-san" here in Japan). Why it took me so long to discover this restaurant I don't know, but now that I have I shall be dining there with some frequency. The duck was very tender. Really excellent. So I'm feeling real good about duck right now. I think I'll go look at your links. At least the ducks one.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:58 AM on August 1, 2007

Awwwwww, so cute! And probably very tasty, too, if prepared by my local soba oba-san. Mmmmmm!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:00 AM on August 1, 2007

Big D little d
What begins with D?
Donuts and a duckdog
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posted by DU at 7:06 AM on August 1, 2007

If humping something is a sign of getting along, then I am dog's best friend.
posted by anthill at 7:18 AM on August 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

I find it bizarre that any time an animal is mentioned on mefi (sharks, ducks, whatever) y'all can't have a conversation without talking about using them as food.
posted by dobbs at 7:20 AM on August 1, 2007

Now I'm going to have the Dog and Duck Pub jingle in my head all day. (Austin, TX)
posted by misskaz at 7:22 AM on August 1, 2007

I am never letting anthill near my dog.
posted by tylermoody at 7:24 AM on August 1, 2007

I find it bizarre that any time an animal is mentioned on mefi (sharks, ducks, whatever) y'all can't have a conversation without talking about using them as food.

Well, honestly... what else are ducks for? When I think of ducks and dogs, my mind goes to duck hunting, and then to cooking the catch.
posted by bradth27 at 7:24 AM on August 1, 2007

tylermoody, get that dog off of my leg!
posted by anthill at 7:28 AM on August 1, 2007

Some recipes for dog.
posted by biffa at 7:31 AM on August 1, 2007

At least people aren't offering up dog recipes.

< derail> Seriously, I have to confess something... while I'm normally very thick skinned about cultural delicacies? I have a serious problems with the fact that my puppy (her color, her body, etc.) looks so much like a Korean roasted dog. (If you are a dog lover whose never seen a roasted dog, DON'T click on it.) Ever since I first saw that photo, I have fought with the mental image of my sweet puppy being put on a spit. I'm totally scarred! < /derail>

Oh yeah, cute duck videos though.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:41 AM on August 1, 2007

Damn. I walked away and didn't hit preview. Spoke too soon. Sigh.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:42 AM on August 1, 2007

Well, honestly... what else are ducks for?

Maybe they are autonomous individuals who aren't intrinsically "for" anything?

I'm just glad the recent abortion thread didn't turn into a discussion about recipes. (It didn't, did it? I haven't actually checked.)
posted by martinrebas at 7:47 AM on August 1, 2007

Maybe they are autonomous individuals who aren't intrinsically "for" anything?

Then why are they made of meat?
posted by bradth27 at 7:50 AM on August 1, 2007

Then why are they made of meat?

You will live to regret asking that question. When duck scientists perfect the robotic duck and take over the world.
posted by DU at 7:52 AM on August 1, 2007

Other surprisingly good pairings:

Strawberries and balsamic vinegar
Ninjas and bush babies
Peanut butter and fluoride
Eskimos and comic books
Beer and monkeys
Nazis and dwarf gerbils
Hockey and hardcore porn
Inconsolable grief and petting zoos
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:55 AM on August 1, 2007 [2 favorites]

Can animals be sued for sodomy?
posted by homodigitalis at 8:03 AM on August 1, 2007

I saw the aftermath of a beagle who ripped the beak off of a goose when I was a kid. My friend's mom bravely grabbed the bloody mess and took it to a local vet where it died. I am still pretty disturbed by the whole thing.
posted by markulus at 8:03 AM on August 1, 2007

my kitty gets along great with my three big, vicious ganders.
posted by bruce at 8:16 AM on August 1, 2007

I find it bizarre that any time an animal is mentioned on mefi (sharks, ducks, whatever) y'all can't have a conversation without talking about using them as food.
posted by dobbs

I for one really enjoy a nice roasted dobbs with some french fries, a bit of broccoli...
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:26 AM on August 1, 2007

In Kansas City, there's a park with a well-known duck pond. The pond is also occupied by a number of fairly large, aggressive geese. I was walking there a week or so ago, and all of the ducks and geese were hanging out, taking handouts from small children.

Suddenly, two of the geese just start fighting. Now, I've seen the geese just kind of snip at each other before. Usually, one of 'em will back off fairly quickly, but these two just wouldn't stop. They were fighting pretty hard-core for about five minutes, with one snipping at the other, which had its beak buried in the first goose's breast. It was fairly terrifying.

The thing that was funny about it, though, was that when this started, every single duck in the pond (probably more than twenty, I've never counted) turned around and starting swimming towards the geese, as if to watch and chant "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT." It was incredible.

This incident, combined with the adorable habit of baby ducks to follow Mama Duck around, has lead me to conclude that ducks are secretly people, and therefore are covered by the Man's Best Friend clause of the human-dog contract.
posted by dismas at 8:58 AM on August 1, 2007

If humping something is a sign of getting along, then I am dog's best friend.

You hump dogs? :P
posted by nzero at 9:32 AM on August 1, 2007

Ducks!

No further comment is needed.
posted by Arturus at 9:39 AM on August 1, 2007

anthill, can we just be pen pals?
posted by sidereal at 9:48 AM on August 1, 2007

Ducks rule. Some of my blackest of depressions as a teenager were ameliorated by the fact that I had access to a duck pond. It's almost impossible to stay angry at the world when you have a dozen or so peepers (our term for ducklings who make the noise) are running around your feet, frantic for a bit of seed or bread.

For this reason, I can't ever even consider eating duck.

Geese are just loser-duck-wannabes, who hiss when they get mad. Which is actually kind of funny.

And on the subject of birds and dogs getting along, I just made this comment yesterday.
posted by quin at 9:51 AM on August 1, 2007

One saturday morning about 6-8 weeks ago I opened the curtains to see a mother duck waddle up our slipway with 10 itty-bitty little ducklings all following close behind, I called out for my SO to come and revel in the cuteness; sadly by the time she made it to the window, daddy duck had also appeared and was holding mummy duck by the throat while mounting her with some degree of roughness. Baby ducks continued to sit tight and watch.

Them ducks is sick. Though obviously this doesn't undermine dismas' 'ducks are people' theory.
posted by biffa at 9:57 AM on August 1, 2007

Has everyone here forgotten about bird flu then?
posted by srboisvert at 10:10 AM on August 1, 2007

Many years ago, I read the cutest (but ultimately saddest) article in Reader's Digest. The author had a pet dachshund, and then for some reason a Canadian goose started hanging around his house. The goose and the doxie became close friends, with the goose sleeping in the dog house with the pooch. The dox eventually got some sort of paralysis common to the breed, and required aqua therapy to get him to exercise his back legs and get them mobile once again. The guy bought a plastic child's swimming pool, and the goose swam circles around the dog, honking at him the entire time. Eventually the doxie started kicking his hind legs, and finally was good as new. The sad part was when the goose finally died, and the guy buried him....the dog kept digging him up.
posted by Oriole Adams at 11:48 AM on August 1, 2007

The last time I spent any time duckwatching was a few weeks after the salmon run at the local river. All along the riverbank, ducks were head-deep in rotting salmon carcasses, fighting between themselves over the guts. Who's cute now?

And: Man's pant-leg humps dog - now that's news.
posted by anthill at 12:24 PM on August 1, 2007

Wait, omfg! Why isn't that vicious pitbull attacking that duck?!

For more pitbull cuteness with baby chicks, check out
here
and here
and here too
posted by asfuller at 12:55 PM on August 1, 2007

asfuller's links are a little borked, here are the three videos. (I particularly like the first one.)
posted by quin at 1:10 PM on August 1, 2007

*ducks*
posted by conch soup at 8:13 PM on August 1, 2007