WATCH: Just under 100 ducklings dumped during TikTok trend have been rehomed

DSPCA were "inundated with calls and emails from very concerned members of the public about young children buying ducklings for €5 because of a trend on TikTok". Parents arrived to the shelter with them in shoe boxes and plastic cartons not knowing how to care for them. Picture: DSPCA/Facebook

Almost 100 ducks have been rehomed by the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) after ducklings were being sold on city streets for as little as €5.

A TikTok trend where people video a day in the life of a duckling has fuelled the practice of buying ducks.