Duck survives Idiot Hunter

[dommyracer]

A little story from the bbc news site - A Tallahassee, Florida hunter shoots a duck in the leg and wing, throws it in his fridge where it stays for 2 days before giving his wife a nasty surprise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6283677.stm

I think the story says more about the hunter than the duck.


Duck survives two days in fridge

A duck in the US state of Florida has survived gunshot wounds and a two-day stint in a refrigerator.

A hunter shot the duck, wounding it in the wing and leg. Believing the bird was dead, he left it in his fridge at his home in Tallahassee.

The hunter's wife got a fright when she opened the fridge and the duck lifted its head, a local veterinarian said.

Staff at the Goose Creek Animal Sanctuary who are treating the bird said it has a 75% chance of survival.

The plucky duck was taken first to a local animal hospital, and then to an animal sanctuary for more specialised treatment.

A veterinarian at the sanctuary said he thinks the duck will live, but will probably never be well enough to be released into the wild.

The veterinarian, David Hale, said the duck's low metabolism rate helped it survive its time in the refrigerator, the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported.

"This is an extremely tough duck with a lot of spirit to live," he said. "This shows how tough and adaptable wildlife are."

 

[Kane]

Seems odd that a duck shot for food gets taken for treatment ....

 

[Feygan]

Correct me if im wrong here, but to show just how bad a hunter he was. Even if he had killed it, wudnt just sticking a whole duck unpreped in the fridge then cause the insides to begin to turn and contaminate the whole thing? Well along with just about everything else in your fridge?

 

[Condex]

They do strange things in them there parts!!

 

[Cormac]

How much are they going to spend on
1 its treatment
2 its bed and board for its life????

 

[bushtank]

I love crispy duck

 

[OzaawaaMigiziNini]

Correct me if im wrong here, but to show just how bad a hunter he was. Even if he had killed it, wudnt just sticking a whole duck unpreped in the fridge then cause the insides to begin to turn and contaminate the whole thing? Well along with just about everything else in your fridge?

Depends on how cold the fridge is... we'll leave a whole deer in a tree for the night (guts'n'all) after -4 C. Goves us time to choose the organs we want to keep... unless it was gut shot, gotta get the bad stuff out (stomach acid and such) ASAP!

 

[dommyracer]

More news on this duck - apparently it flatlined whilst being operated on and "came back to life" again!

Duck comes back from dead, again :-


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6309159.stm

A duck which survived being shot before spending two days in a refrigerator has now overcome major surgery - despite briefly dying on the operating table.
Florida vets working to repair the gunshot damage to Perky's wing panicked when the duck's heart "flatlined".

But they managed to resuscitate the bird, who shot to fame when she was found alive in the hunter's fridge two days after being shot.

Perky now has a pin in her wing, but is expected to make a good recovery.


'She's alive!'

The duck entered surgery with vets confident that she would survive the procedure despite serious injuries to her wing, leg and beak.

But her heart failed during the operation, prompting senior vet David Hale to declare her officially dead.

"We lost her. You know, the bird's dead and it's over. I'm sorry," he said of the operating team's immediate reaction.

"And then, you know, up comes that head and the wings start flapping and, honestly, what, 20 seconds later, I mean the bird was, like, up."

There were scenes of high emotion in the operating theatre, said Noni Beck of the Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.

"I started crying: 'She's alive!'"

Perky made international headlines when she shocked a hunter's wife who found her alive after being stored inside a refrigerator for two days.

Mr Hale said the duck's slow metabolism helped her survive the low temperatures for so long.

 

[Feygan]

It's a zombie duck, blantantly obvious. We've all seen one of the versions of dawn/day/night of the dead at some point, and everyone knows you have to shoot them in the head.

 

[Silverback]

It's a zombie duck, blantantly obvious. We've all seen one of the versions of dawn/day/night of the dead at some point, and everyone knows you have to shoot them in the head.

The only way to kill a zombie duck is to hit it in the head with a paintball filled with orange sauce substitute the orange for plum if it's a oriental zombie duck