You’ll remember the little ducky I just posted about yesterday. The poor little one whose foot was so badly injured by a 3-barbed fishing lure with a rag hooked onto it. Here she is when we found her behind our house on September 27th…

We thought the barb had deformed her web between the middle and left toe. When we released her, the webbing was just a little pink lump under her foot. We haven’t seen her again…

Well, today, I  had a surprise!!! Sweetie has returned to us! She’s stayed away these couple of weeks, healing and mustering up her courage to come back to our yard. I thought I saw her this morning, but her foot looked so good, I thought it couldn’t be her. But how many duckies who looked like her could have the same injury? Turns out, it IS her!!! She has two little freckles on her middle toe of her left foot…and that’s what I looked for today.

There is a dent across her toes from the main part of the barb, but she’s doing great! The webbing has unfolded back out and except for some slight pinkness and the obvious hole, is looking wonderful. I tossed seeds and bread and popcorn out so she would know it’s ok to come back (and so I could get some pictures!)

Oh, welcome back, sweet Sweetie! It made my heart absolutely soar to see you today.

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