Yeh that link was a bit amusing snail . In fact the whole things laughable !                      Getting back on topic : we kept some ducks in our back garden once and they used to use the back door step as their loo . Which just reminded me of the experiment I heard about where monkeys were given keyboards to see if they could produce anything coherent, but they mostly used them as toilets .   We used to have a goat too , and she had a habit of jumping sideways onto the window sill to look in on us .