I have bit of a problem. Basically, I was at a park and a Swanna was waddling with their Duckletts. Couple of them broke from the pack and was eyeing my sandwich. I decided to get some crumbs and feed it to the duckletts, but the thing is, they won’t leave me alone! They follow me home and would wait outside of the house. I tried to get my Galvantula to scare them off but the ducks simply hide & come back. I want them to go back to their family but they seem to have more interest in me.

Congratulations on your new ducklett!

Edit: I have just been informed by my editor that this is a terrible answer and that I should really stop answering these asks without her input first.

In all seriousness, the best thing that you can do is take them back to their parent swanna. By doing this, you’ll essentially be bringing them home and allowing swanna to handle their children themselves. This process is, in other words, much like bringing a human child back to their parent. You’re allowing the parent to do what they need to in order to teach their children not to wander off and follow strangers again. It may also help to bring your galvantula with you as you attempt to release the ducklett back into the wild. Any added intimidation displays may chase the ducks back into the water. Or at the very least, they’ll call their swanna parent’s attention to you—which will, at the very least, ensure that it exercises some level of protectiveness and herding behavior towards its young. Of course, you’ll also likely be the target of a Hurricane at most, but on the positive side, the swanna will be more aware of its stray ducklett.

If you’ve already tried this to no avail (or if you’re afraid of ending up with a flock of ducklett and a swanna following you), it may also be a good idea to lead the ducklett to a pokémon center or day care. As odd as this might seem because it’s additional human contact and care, there are always professionals—either nurses or breeders—who may be able to rehabilitate the ducklett, teach them how to rely on wild food sources again, and release them back into their native pond.

Finally, as a serious note to all of my readers, this is one of several reasons why you should avoid feeding wild pokémon anything. Remember, pokémon that make their presence known to humans already have some level of interest in us and what we’re doing. Giving them food will only encourage them to trust you, which could lead to a number of different problems, ranging from the one described above to situations in which a wild pokémon is captured by a less-than-trustworthy human because it thinks it’s going to be fed. If you see a wild pokémon you don’t intend on befriending, it’s best to leave it alone.