"Hey, baby, got any crackers?"

Living out your life on a golf course may seem like paradise to some, but try and find three square meals a day out among the sand traps and manicured greens. Good luck! Frick and Frack, two domestic ducks, showed up one day out of the blue at a golf course in southern Utah. Dropped off, no doubt. Somebody's pets for sure.
Domestic ducks like Frick and Frack wouldn't be able to fend for themselves long in the wild. Even at a golf course. They can’t fly. They don't have any credit cards with which to buy lunch. And they'd get pretty chilly in the winter.

For a little while, they made out okay by hanging around the golf course clubhouse and begging for food. When that well ran dry, they came up with another brilliant plan. The golf course happened to be near a highway. A highway would have lots of people. And lots of people meant lots of food. "We're going to eat like kings!"

Thank goodness they weren't able to carry out their highway explorations for very long. The golf course called Best Friends, and the bird staff went down to catch these two would-be hitchhikers. Except there was no catching involved whatsoever. The staff dangled some food in front of the ducks, and that was all she wrote. Frick and Frack now live at Best Friends in one of three sanctuary duck flocks. These two male ducks get along great with the rest of the flock, yet they are still quite the bonded pair. One never goes anywhere without the other. Isn't that always the way with golfing buddies, though?

Story by David Dickson
Photo by Molly Wald

To learn about adopting domestic ducks like Frick and Frack, contact wild@bestfriends.org