something fowl is afoot

Maki puffed up, all pleased and proud like a duck with pristine plumage. And then her mismatched ears caught that he called her a badger and instead of taking offence she giggled, realising that maybe he was onto something, she did look kinda badgery didn't she! But badgers didn't sit around in water like ducks, they were on and land did...badger things, whatever that entailed. Wading to the shore, he was now able to see her tail wagging in earnest, flicking water all about like a garden sprinkler.

"M'Maki!" She told him with no fear or hesitation at all. And why should she be worried? Family lived here. This was a sort of home, a place to go if the road made her paws tired. "Do you know my Grammy? She's real nice and pretty." Maki rambled as she stood in front of him, liked to think she could be taller than him, even if only because he was laying down. But even then he was like a mountain, black and white fur that rose and fell.