ULEN, Minn. - City council members voted 3-1 on Tuesday night to allow a pet duck to be grandfathered into a new city animal ordinance.
The ordinance - passed in December - prohibits farm animals including ducks as pets unless they are kept on property 10 acres or larger.
Monika Spitzmiller asked Ulen city leaders to allow her duck - named Houdini - to stay because it already lived there for more than two years. The city accommodated other residents affected by the ordinance change.
Under the approval, Spitzmiller must get a license for the duck and provide the city with proof from a veterinarian that it is in good health, Mayor Gordon Nichols said.
