The duck that wouldn't die...

[Woody Williams]

Shot duck survives 2 days in fridge

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The duck wouldn't die.

Wildlife officials said the feathered Lazarus had been shot by a hunter and put into his refrigerator for two days. That's when the hunter's wife opened the door and the duck lifted his head, giving her a scare.

The man's wife "was going to check on the refrigerator because it hadn't been working right and when she opened the door, it looked up at her," said Laina Whipple, a receptionist at Killearn Animal Hospital. "She freaked out and told the daughter to take it to the hospital right then and there."

The hospital's staff had the daughter take the 1-pound female ring-neck to Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, where it has been treated since Tuesday for wounds to its wing and leg.

Sanctuary veterinarian David Hale said it has about a 75% chance of survival, but probably won't ever be well enough to be released back into the wild.

He said the duck, which has a low metabolism, could have survived in a big enough refrigerator, especially if the door was opened and closed several times.

He understands how the hunter thought the duck was dead.

"This duck is very passive," Hale said. "It's not like trying to pick up a Muscovy at Lake Ella, where you put your life in your hands."

[jwkimber45]

Thats rediculious.......we as hunters need to have more respect for our quarry.

[hoosierhunter2]

I wonder if he was going to have it mounted? Otherwise why not clean it?

[hotshot]

When reading I thought the bird would be a buffle head. - tough birds.
Then.... how verified is this story? My wife doesn't care to eat duck, but she knows what we bring home. If he was going to mount it: freezer, not fridge.

[hoosierhunter2]

That's true, I didn't even pay attention, fridge not freezer. I saw the same story on my news ticker for earthlink.net, so it's obviously a true story.

[Decatur]

hoosierhunter2 said:

Otherwise why not clean it?

Lazy

[bsutravis]

hoosierhunter2 said:

I saw the same story on my news ticker for earthlink.net, so it's obviously a true story.

Oh yeah, cause those dang media people never lie! LOL

[Woody Williams]

Refrigerator duck plays Lazarus again

Bird that lived 2 days in fridge after being shot flat-lines in surgery, revives

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Call her Lazarus — and then some.
The ring-neck duck has been shot by a hunter, rescued from two days in a refrigerator by his wife and — in its latest brush with death — resuscitated on a veterinarian's operating table.

The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during an operation to repair gunshot damage to her wing, said Noni Beck of Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary. Veterinarian David Hale performed CPR and managed to get the fractured fowl breathing again after several tense moments.

"I started crying, 'She's alive!'" Beck said.

Perky grabbed national attention last week after a hunter's wife opened her refrigerator door and the supposedly dead duck lifted its head and looked at her. The duck had been in the fridge for two days since it was shot and mistaken for dead on Jan. 15

Perky, who now has a pin in hers wing, will probably not undergo any more surgery because of a sensitivity to anesthesia, Hale said. The duck is recovering from its latest ordeal.

[dec]

I saw he was in the news again.

Someone would have been much better off just to ring the thing's neck and served him up for dinner. Lesson learned I guess.

[Decatur]

I'll bet the husband is p**sed about having to spend all of this money on duck he should be eating!