do animals prefer you?

I find the same, I seem to get on with animals better than humans, they seem to understand me better and I understand them

Ducks, swans and geese in particular. Swans even let me handfeed their cygnets sometimes like they trust me and ducks come up to me and just eat out of my hand

I love ducks, they are such simple creatures, much nicer than people 

I find the same, I seem to get on with animals better than humans, they seem to understand me better and I understand them

Ducks, swans and geese in particular. Swans even let me handfeed their cygnets sometimes like they trust me and ducks come up to me and just eat out of my hand

I love ducks, they are such simple creatures, much nicer than people 

….oh, and I agree. Ducks are superb! My wife and I purchased my deceased grandparents’ house from their estate, and it has a swimming pool - my grandfather was a keen swimmer, he loved the water, and by all accounts his father was a keen swimmer too (and here’s a relevant tangent… since I have resumed in the pool, and given my observation that my grandfather was almost certainly Autistic, I now appreciate why - it’s like a sensory and emotional return to factory settings).

Anyway, I digress.

Ducks love it too - and they’re loveable ratbags. I was standing in our front yard with a mate during the ‘non-swimming’ part of last year wwhen a breeding pair of native ducks waddled purposefully off the road and into the yard via the carport gate. We were clearly visible to them but that didn’t affect their mission - they just waddled past us, one of them making a series of quite low ‘quacky noises’, and they continued past our cars and down to the very back of the yard where they settled in looking for wriggly things to eat next to the pool. My friend just looked at me and asked ‘Do you know those two?’ to which I laughed and replied ‘Never seen them before in my life!’

Brilliant.

They returned frequently to feed and spend time in pooled rainwater on the winter swimming pool cover, including some nights roosting on it. There was much cuteness and much duck poo! My wife and popped up to speak to them over the pool fence every once in a while - us telling them how beautiful and handsome they are, and the ducks replying with the same, very low, very calm quacking noises (kind of a ‘sub-quack’).

Love them. They are the best looking bird I the air too… wings towards the back, neck out front. They cut a fine figure.

Indeed. The only metric by which animals can make a judgement regarding a human is how kind we are. It has taken humans to complicate and corrupt that