@Patsy Faye One morning upon going out back, I found a small baby duck swimming in the pool! Don't think it could fly yet, I imagined it had followed momma duck in under the gate; she was nowhere to be seen, and the little guy could not climb out of the pool by himself. I picked him up and put him in the shade on the patio. The two cats, still pretty young, KC had a sock covering her recent surgical scar, intensely curious, gathered about the bird, looking, but never getting too close, nor probing as cats do. I turned him loose out beyond the back yard. Frank