Like beacons on the bank of Denton North Lakes Park’s south pond, a few white ducks sit on high alert for dangers. Even to the untrained eye, these white Pekin ducks are noticeably out of place among the other dark-colored ducks.

About a dozen of these ducks, coming in all shades and breeds, at North Lakes Park appear to have been domestically bred and dumped defenseless, Jessica Escue suspects.

Nearly each day since April, and sometimes several times per day, Escue has come to the park’s southern conservation pond to care for the vulnerable domestic ducks.

“They can’t fly and they can’t protect themselves,” Escue said. “When it flooded out here a few weeks ago, these [domestic ducks] were standing under the base of a small tree because it was the only higher ground. These other ducks c

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