Woman takes her beloved ducks on holiday to cheer them up
19/04/2008
From Mirrow.com.uk
一位女醫師養了三隻鴨，其中一隻過世了，結果另兩隻很傷心。醫師只好帶他們去度假散心。
A female Doctor Dolittle loves her pet ducks so much she took them on holiday.
Donella Fernyhough, known as Donella Dolittle to pals, wanted to cheer the pair up after another died.
So she and husband Bernard whisked them off to Scotland from their Leeds home - taking the birds' portable house, bath and mounds of hay to play in.
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