Why Easter is bad for ducks

Published April 5, 2023

5 min read

On Christmas Eve, two Pekin ducks were found frozen to a pond in Smithville, Ohio. They flapped their wings and squawked, fruitlessly struggling to free themselves until two locals, Maiara and Helder Bertolucci, spotted them. The pair slid on their stomachs over razor-thin ice and chiseled the animals free.

“We’ll get you out of here, ok?” Maiara said in a video recording of the incident, cradling one of the ducks in her lap.

The rescued ducks—later named Olaf and Elsa, after characters from Disney’sFrozen—were two of 109 domestic ducks abandoned in a pond outside of a restaurant. A local group called Good Sprout Rescue and Sanctuary rescued the animals; two died, but the rest were rehomed to sanctuaries or adopted. Every

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