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#669643 - 01/22/07 07:03 PM A "Mighty" Duck
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It had been shot and kept in a refrigerator for two days, but one duck in Florida will live to quack another day. The wife of the hunter who shot the one-pound ring-neck found it still alive in the fridge. The startled woman immediately ordered her daughter to take the fowl to an animal hospital, according to an employee there. The duck is now at a wildlife sanctuary, where it's been receiving treatment for wounds to its wing and leg. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=animals_oddities&id=4957931

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#669647 - 01/22/07 07:05 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Imagine
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Now that's the kind of story I love to hear.
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#669664 - 01/22/07 07:14 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck MichelleDawn
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Can a duck have nine lives?

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#669669 - 01/22/07 07:17 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck MichelleDawn
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I'm not a hunter, but my husband's family is, so my knowledge is limited and second hand, but...

Aren't you supposed to gut/pluck your kills (or in this case "kills") relatively soon after shooting them? Personally, I'd have called my husband and told him to come home and finish killing his duck.
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#669672 - 01/22/07 07:19 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Jaeger Schnitzel
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I think you are supposed to clean the carcass first. But, was this put in their regular fridge? The one with all the family's food???
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#669829 - 01/22/07 09:02 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Bacon Boy
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That is one tough duck! I read this on another site story earlier, they are giving the duck a 75% for survival, but they don't think it will not be able to be released back into the wild.

I'm glad the duck is doing well, but the poor thing was in pain for 2 days while that lazy bum hunter just threw it in the fridge. If you're going to hunt...committ!
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#669831 - 01/22/07 09:04 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Sing A Little
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I'd totally adopt the duck...

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#669937 - 01/22/07 10:30 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Imagine
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If I found a hurt duck, I'd be tempted to adopt him. In fact, a couple of months ago I was at my gym, which happens to be next to a large lake, and there was a duck sitting alone in the parking lot. I thought that was odd behavior for a duck and wondered if he needed help. So I drove up to him, and he didn't move, and I rolled down my window, and he didn't move. Then I opened the car door and he ran off. Which I still think is odd behavior for a duck (if I was a duck, I'd fly off), but it was cold and dark our so I didn't follow him. And I figured my husband woudln't be all that excited if I tried to adopt a duck. He's patient enough with my current pet dove which was either adopted or stolen out of nature, however you want to look at it. It was a dang cute duck though - black and fluffy looking.

However, if myself or someone in my family had already taken active measures to kill the duck, and the duck had already been moved into the category of "food." Even if it came back to life, I'd try to send it back to the food category as quickly as possible. And going back to Bacon Boy's comment, if a mostly dead duck had been in my fridge for two days, I might go ahead and clean the rest of the fridge out.
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#669942 - 01/22/07 10:33 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Jaeger Schnitzel
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Now we can look forward to a new fridge warning label, "Please ensure that all food items are deceased before refrigeration"
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#669943 - 01/22/07 10:37 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Sing A Little
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Originally Posted By: Sing A Little
Now we can look forward to a new fridge warning label, "Please ensure that all food items are deceased before refrigeration"


Way to put a new idea 'out there' for some nut job to sue!
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#674267 - 01/29/07 02:44 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck MadisonCali
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There is an update on Perky the duck.

Shot Duck Plays Lazarus Again

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

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#674283 - 01/29/07 03:03 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck gone
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Wow, that is pretty amazing.
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#674288 - 01/29/07 03:06 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Retired DQ
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I so want to adopt that duck...

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#674572 - 01/29/07 05:38 PM Re: A "Mighty" Duck Imagine
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This duck is amazing, she needs to end up at a nice bird sanctuary or something.
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