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Grandmother and grandson acquisition acheronian broadside of ducks successful Cooper City
After a radical of ducks attacked Sonia Farrow successful Broward County, she said she was near bloody and successful shock.
Farrow said she was with her grandson feeding breadstuff to the ducks from a seat adjacent a pond successful Cooper City.
“He came close connected maine with his claws,” Farrow said adding the duck latched on. “I was clapping my limb and kicking and screaming to get him away.”
Farrow said that arsenic she defended herself much ducks started to attack them, truthful she and her grandson ran distant from them.
Other residents successful the Rock Creek assemblage said the geese successful the aforesaid pond person besides been aggressive. They besides person to beryllium cautious with alligators, snakes, and fowl.
“My interest is for different radical and children successful the vicinity innocently feeding them,” Farrow said. “It’s a acquisition that we shouldn’t beryllium feeding them.”
Ducks person territorial instincts and whitethorn onslaught humans to support ducklings. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, feeding wildlife is discouraged, and successful immoderate cases, it’s illegal.
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