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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5567418" data-attributes="member: 59506">That's Ornithologically Discriminatory! I was going to say that was being ornithologist (like sexist), but apparently that word already means something else...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   My Wife had an issue with the above mentioned Jinxy and a Duck. One morning (while I was still in Afghanistan) my Wife got up and went to let Jinxy in from his nightime wandering, only to find him sitting on the patio with a gift: a full-grown Mallard.  The apartment complex we lived in had a pond with a family of Ducks on it, and apparently Jinxy had taken one down during the night.  My wife just kind of stood there in shock - partly because she didn't know what to do with the duck and didn't want to touch it, but also because she was certain we would get in trouble for our cat killing one of them.  Just as she decided that she at least needed to dispose of it, and had bent down to pick it up, the Duck suddenly came back to life and took off in a flurry of wings and quacks (of course with Jinxy hot on it's trail trying to catch it again).  Apparently it had only been stunned or just playing dead (but I don't know if Ducks will feign dead or not).  Scared the living hell out of her.</blockquote>

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