Snooze wrote:

Hell no, the neighborhood cats will not bother your duck, unless it is a
duckling which you have just presented to your young daughter. Actually
you will find the neighborhood cats will avoid close encounters with
anything that looks like a duck. This is partly because cats dislike
stepping in duck doo to get to their prey and partly because the duck
thinks any passing cat must be its mother/sister/brother/mate. Even the
staunchest Tom cat finds it unnerving to have to deal with this sort of
thing and will generally go to extremes to avoid an embarrassing
encounter.

My guess would be that the cats would run like hell in the opposite
direction. We have four fairly "aggressive" cats. I've seen the
littlest one take on a very large german shepherd and win without
ruffling her fur. However, a parrot scares the heck out of them. So do
the guinea pigs. It's particularly funny with the guinea pigs because
the cats will sneak up on them from behind but make startled two foot
jumps backward if the guniea pig turns around.

Susan
shsimko[@]duke[.]edu