Shot duck survives 2 days in refrigerator
I found this story interesting because it happened here in Tallahassee! My dad lives in the Killearn area. It's the expensive neighborhood in town, or maybe I should say it used to be because a lot of families live there now and there are other more expensive and exclusive areas. Lake Ella is a duck pond next to the police department in the middle of town. It's like a mile and a half around Lake Ella so people go there to walk and feed the ducks. Shot duck survives 2 days in refrigerator Raises head when hunter’s wife opens door Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET Jan 20, 2007 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its 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 1-pound female ringneck ended up at 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 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. And he said 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.”

More news on the death-defying duck. Refrigerator duck plays Lazarus again: Bird that lived 2 days in fridge after being shot flat-lines in surgery, revives Updated: 4:36 a.m. ET Jan 29, 2007 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 her wing, will probably not undergo any more surgery because of a sensitivity to anesthesia, Hale said. The duck is recovering from its latest ordeal.

I saw this and was like WOW