[paula.m.moore]

So you want a duck (or ducks, which is only slightly more disturbing) so that you can have a bunch of waterfowl that will follow you around and behave like dogs with their affection?

Your explanation is seriously disturbing.

Getting ducks for as a classroom experiment is actually heinously cruel and carries with it tremendous opportunities for the ducks to be mistreated and actually hurt. Kids shouldn't have ducks as classroom pets just the same as they shouldn't have guinea pigs or hamsters or anything else as classroom pets.

I think a person’s reasons for wanting a wild animal should be a lot less selfish and meant for the welfare and good of the animal, not so you can have an “exotic” pet that will “love” you like an “ordinary” dog would. Further, I think a person should have the good sense God gave a duck before s/he seriously considers getting any.