Taking care of a cute, but frightened, duck isn’t all it’s quacked up to be.

Brian and Kyla Atherton learned this when they accidentally stumbled across an unexpected visitor on Onset Avenue on Jan. 25.

“Me and my wife were walking the dog, and the duck looked like it was shivering in the snow,” Brian Atherton said. “We were like, ‘There is something wrong with it. It is letting us get really close to it.’”

Kyla Atherton wanted to help the duck, but Brian said he was worried they would be late to work, and didn’t even know where to keep it.

But come 4 p.m. that day, the duck was still there. This time, Atherton said, it was on top of a pump house.

“I went out there with a box of rice to shake at it, to make it come down,” Atherton said. “It ended up coming down, and I grabbed it.”

As he held the duck, wrapped in a towel, to his chest, Atherton realized he didn’t know what to do with her.

“I ended up putting her in the tub,” Atherton said. “When I checked on her, she ended up landing on the sink. The poor thing was looking around like, ‘Oh [crap], where am I?’”

After fretting for a bit about the duck breaking something in the bathroom, Atherton said he took a photo of her and posted it to Facebook. Within about 10 minutes, he said they received a response that the duck belonged to a neighbor down the street.

Though they couldn’t have kept the duck, as their house is too small, Atherton said they were going to name her ‘Kevin,’ after the character from the Pixar movie, “Up,” because their dog is named ‘Ellie,’ another character from the movie.