Watch: Police Take Time Out to Rescue Family of Ducklings

Royal Oak police got an unusual call to rescue a family on the Fourth of July. It wasn’t a human family, but Officers Bruce Handrinos and Keith Bierenga nevertheless quickly responded to the area of Normandy and Seminole.

There, they found a family of five ducklings stuck in a sewer drain. Initial efforts only drove the ducks deeper into the drain, according to a video posted by the Royal Oak Police Department on YouTube.

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The rest of the duck family – the mother and two other ducklings – were nearby and officers were eventually able to coax the mother to the manhole.

She fussed a bit. Police think the trapped ducklings recognized the quack, then relaxed enough that officers were able to pluck them from the drain and reunite the family.

Apparently unfazed, the ducks waddled on their merry way.