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 ring-neck ended up at Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, where it has been treated since Tuesday for wounds to its wing and leg.
When you read such stories, try not to ask too many questions. If their intent was to kill the duck, why are they trying to save it? If they prefer animal rescue, why did they shoot it? Or maybe there weren’t any disabled ducks handy to rescue, so they…. See, I told you not to ask too many questions.
This all sounds very strange to me. I have not hunted since I was a kid, but my dad always made sure that the Ducks etc were dead as soon as he got to it. Ever this was a very inexperienced hunter or this is an Urban Legend that is getting past off as real.
I am impressed. It took 17 comments before someone decided to make fun of a Republican, and 18 before the topic turned into a rant about how non-hunters are smarter than hunters.
Fix the duck, return it to the wild, it will enrich it’s species gene pool. Humanity will not likely last another five thousand years, and our successors need to start toughening up now. Ducks are cool, and who says the dominant species has to be sentient? The dinosaurs did a pretty good job, tear assing around until the asteroid snuffed them. Humans are cool that way, it’ll not be a natural calamity that does us in, we’ll do it to ouselves.
#14….that Duck is gonna need therapy.