Duck in Frig

[Specklebelly]

You see this on Foxnews.com:

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The duck would not 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 percent chance of
 survival, but probably will not 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.

[dukkillr]

All that time, money, and interest in a s$# duck.  That a ringneck ever made it, whole, to someone's fridge is a statement about the intelligence of the "hunter".

[Dee]

My first reaction was, why would anyone put an unprocessed duck, feathers and all, (not even field dressed) in their refridgerator with their other food? That is just plain nasty.

[Specklebelly]

My first reaction was, why would anyone put an unprocessed duck, feathers and all, (not even field dressed) in their refridgerator with their other food? That is just plain nasty.

That was what I was thinking.  Think of the mites and no telling what else is jumping around in the frig.  It makes me sick to think about.

[Dee]

Tell ya what Speck. If they invite us to supper, lets be busy, whadaya think?

[Specklebelly]

Oh my, it gets better: 

Duck That Survived Shooting, Refrigeration Has Third Brush With Death
Sunday, January 28, 2007

TALLAHASSEE, Florida  —  Perky is one tough bird.

The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter's refrigerator — and now she's had a close brush with death on a veterinarian's operating table.

The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during surgery to repair gunshot damage to one wing, said Noni Beck of the Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.

Veterinarian David Hale revived the bird after several tense moments by performing CPR.

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

Perky entered the headlines last week after a hunter's wife opened her refrigerator door and the should've-been-dead duck lifted its head and looked at her. The bird had been in the fridge for two days since being shot and presumed killed Jan. 15.

Perky is recovering with a pin installed in the fractured wing, and probably will not have more surgery because of her sensitivity to anesthesia, Hale said.

[Dee]

I guess you could say ole Perky was a dead duck, so to speak. Instead of spending all that money on the duck, why didn't they just eat it. That was the intent in the first place, when they shot it.

[lewdogg21]

I can't figure out why you would freeze an unprocessed duck unless he wanted to mount it.  I can't imagine trying to pick or gut something that is rock hard.


Well that story made duck hunters as a whole look stupid to the non hunting public.  Poor duck. 

What cracked me up is how people were so surprised it survived in the freezer for 2 days.  Consider that ducks and geese live at below freezing temps for weeks at places like NE California.