That hunter had bettern take good care of that duck, because you don’t want to see what it’ll look like next time it comes back from the dead.
I’m not a PETA enthusiast, but I’m glad Perky is OK. That must have been a really painful and horrifying experience. I’m kind of wowed over the fact that veterinarians can resuscitate animals as small as a duck.
In my opinion, death would probably have been the best thing for the duck. This is a wild animal that has never been in human captivity, and so far she has been subjected to two days in a fridge, extensive surgery and human handling, and recovery in a foreign environment. I’m surprised she hasn’t died from the stress of it all. And the poor thing will probably never be able to return to the wild. It’s a shame.
Yeah, it’s a duck. I’m a vegetarian and I love teh aminals and everything, but I’m totally with Joy, and if I opened someone’s fridge and a duck looked up at me, neck-breaking would ensue IMMEDIATELY. It’s had a rough couple of days, and in the immortal paraphrase of John Stuart Mill “Pig ain’t got a plan.” (or duck, as it were…), so killing it would have been a kindness, given what it’s gone through since being found alive. (Just kill my other comment in moderation, I didn’t realize a single angle bracket would send everything to hell.)
it might’ve been a kindness to kill this duck, but it sure would have grated with any sense of fair game. i don’t hunt, but if i did and some game of mine survived not only my shooting it, but two days in my fridge after… i think i’d get a pretty deep, visceral feeling it’d earned its life. (speaking of hunting, any upland bird hunters here know how common it is to put a freshly shot bird straight into the fridge without gutting and dressing it first? because that detail has me a bit confused…)
Caption on the picture for that article: “Perky the duck has had a difficult couple of weeks” I laughed. I’m a terrible person, I know.
As a hunter I dont have a clue what this guy was up to sticking the duck in the fridge. First, you don’t kill something unless you are going to eat it, or at least, someone is going to eat it. Don’t waste wildlife. Second, if the bird is not dead you finish it, so it does not suffer. Third you clean and dress so that it does not spoil or again you waste it. I suspect he never learned how to hunt, so he shot it and did not have a clue what the next step was. It could also be that just like there are assholes in any human undertaking, he is just an asshole hunter.
Jill, sorry but you have to blog this one from myfoxtampabay.com: Rape victim jailed after reporting attack Last Edited: Monday, 29 Jan 2007, 10:45 PM EST Created: Monday, 29 Jan 2007, 6:27 PM EST A woman says she was raped after the Gasparilla parade We’ve got you covered Related Items Videos TAMPA – A young woman was walking back to her car after the Gasparilla parade on Saturday when she says a man dragged her behind a building and raped her near the intersection of Howard and Swann. She managed to get away and called 911. Police took her to the hospital and began a routine rape investigation. When they started checking the victim’s background, they discovered she had an arrest warrant out for her. It was from an arrest when the woman was a juvenile and she was accused of not paying restitution. The woman says she was not aware there was a warrant out for her, and her attorney says it appears to be a paperwork error. “They were more interested in prosecuting her for something that’s a paperwork snafu from four years ago, that was juvenile. They were more interested in working on that than finding an experienced rapist,” stated the victim’s mother. Still, the woman was put in handcuffs and taken to jail. She was not allowed bond, and the medical staff at the jail refused to give her the Morning After Pill even though it had been prescribed at the hospital. “The medical supervisor would not allow her to take the pill because she said it was against her, the supervisor’s, religion. So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim,” claimed the victim’s attorney Virlyn Moore. “As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally – it’s outrageous and unconscionable.” “At this point, we’re very concerned about the welfare of this young woman,” said Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy. “There’s a lot of unanswered questions about exactly how this unfolded we are going to get to the bottom of it.” McElroy says there is a policy in place where anyone who is suspected of a misdemeanor is not taken to jail if they’re the victim of a sex crime. She says while it’s nearly impossible to draw up a policy that addresses every situation, this may be a case where department policy should be reexamined. “The system as a whole, that is so broken, it needs to be completely fixed, so broken, so broken that something like this could happen, something like this should never have happened,” said the victim’s mother. The victim did manage to finally bond out of jail Monday afternoon. She was too emotionally distraught to speak with the media, and FOX 13 does not identify the victims of sexual assault
Stacy M, I once watched my father resuscitate a rat that had been given too much anesthetic. He had to stick the whole head in his mouth, but the rat revived, and survived the surgery.