Another Lame Duck Story
No, this post isn't about Bush. I thought that while I'm on the subject of injured animal stories on the evening news sucking oxygen out of other more important stories, I have to say that were I a newsroom manager shopping around for heartstring-tugging pabulum to serve up to the masses, instead of the Barbaro story this week I would have chosen the remarkable tale of Perky the Duck, who recently was shot by a hunter in Tallahassee, recovered by his hunting dog, brought home and placed in a refrigerator, discovered by the hunter's wife two days later to still be alive, taken to the animal hospital, flat lining on the operating table while the pellets were being removed, and then reviving and ducking death again. One thing's for sure, Perky's doc was no mere quack.
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posted by Paul @ 6:05 PM
4 Comments:
Paolo--This story is obviously untrue. I know that it has been widely reported, but c'mon. Two days in the freezer? I'm willing to buy that the duck was shot, retrieved by the dog, etc. Maybe placed in the freezer, for some length of time. But not two days. Because if ducks were that tough, it's obvious, to me at least, that they would be the dominant form of life on earth.
"What happened to Papa?"
"He wrangled with a duck . . . and lost. The damned fool."
Threep,
It was in the fridge for two days, not in the freezer. Also, I first heard the story last night on the CBC's As it Happens (Canada's All Things Considered) and they interviewed the vet. So yeah, it appears to be legit. Not much more bizarre than the VP of the US shooting his hunting companion...
I should add that if you still don't think the story true, you're entitled to your own o-pinion.
If you don't believe this story, look up "Mike the Headless Chicken" on Google. Mike lived for two years after his farmer/owner choped off his head and became an America celebrity from 1945 to 1947. They fed him through his neck hole. I shit you not.
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