Item

How a Toronto quarantine trend became a London area farm sanctuary's headache

Title (Dublin Core)

How a Toronto quarantine trend became a London area farm sanctuary's headache

Description (Dublin Core)

"The program took off like a rocket in April, when the coronavirus crisis reached full swing. Suddenly, adopting ducklings became something of a craze in Toronto, where thousands of families discovered a welcome distraction from the daunting headlines and cooped up days at home because of the pandemic.

However, some families who signed up apparently didn't understand what they were getting into. Some seemed to be unaware the pair of ducklings they paid $150 to foster at home would eventually have to be returned to the farm from whence they came in order to be sold..."
"A London area farm sanctuary says it's been forced to clean up after a foster baby duck program when some of the participating families from Toronto couldn't stomach the fact the ducklings they paid to raise might end up on a dinner plate."
quarantine hobby, animal

Date (Dublin Core)

July 5, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Colin Butler

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Hope Gresser

Type (Dublin Core)

Article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/foster-ducklings-ontario-london-toronto-1.5636950?cmp=rss
https://web.archive.org/web/20200719153159/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/foster-ducklings-ontario-london-toronto-1.5636950?cmp=rss

Publisher (Dublin Core)

CBC News

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Agriculture
English Animals
English Home & Family Life
English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Toronto
Peterborough
Ontario
quarantine
hobby
ducks
farm

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Refugee advocates beseech bylaw to 'warn and inform' after man handed $880 fine

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/06/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/19/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Canada

This item was submitted on July 6, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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