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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - 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.



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I find it interesting they put her in the fridge whole... feathers and all?

pompom;534210 wrote:

Yes, why would you put a dead duck in the 'fridge complete with feathers?


Not sure. Maybe:

a) Outside temperature too hot;

b) Outside temperature too cold;

c) The shooter hadn't made his mind up what to do.

Reminds me of a (true) story from ages ago....

One March, some years ago, I donated a hare to a couple who I was friendly

with. It waited, dead, on the side in their kitchen. We playe "Scrabble" 'till the

early hours, me, a girl, and them (Scrabble! Oh! Joy!!). The earliest April Fool

ever was had - this chap's wife went to the kitchen on some pretext, and came

out with a squeak of "The hare's woken up and is trying to get out of the

kitchen window!". Sad to say, three "April Fools" were had in one go!

pompom;534210 wrote: This is sad in that the poor creature must have suffered.


AOL, incidentally.

pompom;534240 wrote: Sorry Bill, don't get that -2


"I agree".