Shot duck survives 2 days in fridge

Rushlimbo

This pretty much sums up the ignorance of hunters. "Duh, I thunk the duk wuz ded." Hunters are a special class of dumbass.


Shot duck survives 2 days in Fla. fridge
Sat Jan 20, 5:07 PM ET

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.

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."

Collin

Why didn't he kill it when he found it in his fridge?

NCBRI

Collin wrote:

Why didn't he kill it when he found it in his fridge?

If that duck survived all that, then he deserves to live.

sonicreducer

Rushlimbo wrote:

This pretty much sums up the ignorance of hunters. "Duh, I thunk the duk wuz ded." Hunters are a special class of dumbass.

actually, it is more like one example of how one ignorant hunter can make a bad name for all the others. there are plenty of hunters out there who practice hunting safely and efficiently.

CorporateWhore

sonicreducer wrote:

actually, it is more like one example of how one ignorant hunter can make a bad name for all the others. there are plenty of hunters out there who practice hunting safely and efficiently.

Absolutely. This guy just happened to be a dumbass.

Hunting is a serious sport.

CorporateWhore

chiefojibwa wrote:

hunting for sport seriously bothers me. for food and other materials, fine.

hunters help to keep the deer population manageable.

tybird

CorporateWhore wrote:

hunters help to keep the deer population manageable.

...and they also fund the U.S. system of National Wildlife Refuges with the purchase of their duck hunting stamps.

LikeAnOcean

CorporateWhore wrote:

hunters help to keep the deer population manageable.

Why?, because we killed off their natural predators. I say we bring back the mountain lions and wolves. Leave the hunting for survival, not pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer killed for pleasure. Anyone who mounts the heads of dead animals on their walls has underlying issues.. Thats just my opinion. I have relatives who hunt, but they are also idiots so I guess it goes hand in hand..

blackredyellow

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Why, because we killed off their natural predators? I say we bring back the mountain lions and wolves. Leave the hunting for survival, not pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer killed for pleasure. Anyone who mounts the heads of dead animals on their walls has underlying issues.. Thats just my opinion. I have relatives who hunt, but they are also idiots so I guess it goes hand in hand..

Not just their natural predators, but their habitat.

jeffbr

Rushlimbo wrote:

This pretty much sums up the ignorance of hunters. "Duh, I thunk the duk wuz ded." Hunters are a special class of dumbass.

No, actually it doesn't sum up anything, except maybe the ignorance of individuals who try to generalize a clearly exceptional case and attempt pass it off as the norm.

tybird

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Why, because we killed off their natural predators? I say we bring back the mountain lions and wolves. Leave the hunting for survival, not pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer killed for pleasure. Anyone who mounts the heads of dead animals on their walls has underlying issues.. Thats just my opinion. I have relatives who hunt, but they are also idiots so I guess it goes hand in hand..

Mountain lions and wolves can't survive in the same type of habitat that the deer has adapted to in the eastern U.S.

Read about the failed re-introduction of Red Wolves into the Smoky Mountains National Park or the troubles of the Florida Panther.

jeffbr

blackredyellow wrote:

Not just their natural predators, but their habitat.

OK, so because we had a role in eliminating predators and habitat, we should throw our hands up and say fuck em? It is a little disturbing that anti-hunters might argue the case that starvation would be better for the herd. Also, when anti-hunters step up financially and fund wildlife conservation to the tune the hunters do in terms of maintaining habitat, then maybe their opinions will be something other than just noise.

blackredyellow

jeffbr wrote:

OK, so because we had a role in eliminating predators and habitat, we should throw our hands up and say fuck em? It is a little disturbing that anti-hunters might argue the case that starvation would be better for the herd. Also, when anti-hunters step up financially and fund wildlife conservation to the tune the hunters do in terms of maintaining habitat, then maybe their opinions will be something other than just noise.

I'm not arguing, I was just pointing out that our encroachment on their habitat has caused the need for hunting... I haven't hunted for the past 5 or so years, but I don't have anything against it (if people are hunting legally).

know1

blackredyellow wrote:

Not just their natural predators, but their habitat.

Yep - so perhaps you should show the way by letting your house go back to nature.

It's always someone else that was the cause, isn't it?

know1

jeffbr wrote:

No, actually it doesn't sum up anything, except maybe the ignorance of individuals who try to generalize a clearly exceptional case and attempt pass it off as the norm.

I agree. It only sums up the ignorance of the original poster who can't see that people are individuals.

blackredyellow

know1 wrote:

Yep - so perhaps you should show the way by letting your house go back to nature.

It's always someone else that was the cause, isn't it?

I'd rather shoot a deer and eat it than let my house go.

And it is us human's fault that their habitat is shrinking, is it not?

know1

blackredyellow wrote:

I'd rather shoot a deer and eat it than let my house go.

And it is us human's fault that their habitat is shrinking, is it not?

I don't know. It seems as if there are more deer today than there were a long time ago. I'm sure there's probably less of their natural habitat, but they seem to be thriving. In fact, deer kill more people than any other animal in the U.S. annually.

blackredyellow

know1 wrote:

I don't know. It seems as if there are more deer today than there were a long time ago. I'm sure there's probably less of their natural habitat, but they seem to be thriving. In fact, deer kill more people than any other animal in the U.S. annually.

The mild winters aren't helping to keep the population in check either. Long cold spells kill off some weaker animals, and heavy snow covers a lot of their food sources. With the kind of winters that we've been having (in the northeast) neither of those conditions are present.

know1

blackredyellow wrote:

The mild winters aren't helping to keep the population in check either. Long cold spells kill off some weaker animals, and heavy snow covers a lot of their food sources. With the kind of winters that we've been having (in the northeast) neither of those conditions are present.

So it might seem that we actually could stand for more hunting....even though I think hunting is barbaric.

decides2dream

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Why?, because we killed off their natural predators. I say we bring back the mountain lions and wolves. Leave the hunting for survival, not pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer killed for pleasure. Anyone who mounts the heads of dead animals on their walls has underlying issues.. Thats just my opinion. I have relatives who hunt, but they are also idiots so I guess it goes hand in hand..

i personally do not care for hunting, at all. however, to label an entire group of people....even those who mount animal heads on their walls, as having 'underlying issues'...is taking it a bit far imho. one of my very first BFs came from a 'hunting family'...and i do not live in an area for hunting, nor an environment that fosters hunters. yes, they had animal heads in their home, animals they shot and killed. however, they also ate all the meat from these animals too. while i do not have specific figures, i'd hazard a guess and say that most hunters eat what they kill. sure, there may be a few who try it out for 'sport'....but i'd say most are regulars. in my own extended family, i have many cousins who are aivd hunters, and just as avid eaters of any game they kill. i honestly fail to see much difference between buying meat in the market...or going out and killing it yourself. now for one who is a vegetarian or vegan, there i can see one tsaking issue. otherwise...hey, at least hunters are willing to do the work to get their food. sure, it's a 'sport'.....but most use the animal meat as well.

ClimberInOz

know1 wrote:

I don't know. It seems as if there are more deer today than there were a long time ago. I'm sure there's probably less of their natural habitat, but they seem to be thriving. In fact, deer kill more people than any other animal in the U.S. annually.

Some species do really well out of disturbed/fragmented habitat. Sounds like the deer is one of those species in the US. Here in Australia we have the same problem with Kangaroos- land clearing for farming practices has increased suitable habitat for Kangaroos and resulted in a population explosion. So now we eat them!

Whilst I personally wouldn't hunt for fun, the consevationist in me only gets pissed off when the wrong species are targetted (such as threatened species etc) and it becomes an issue of sustainability. Habitat loss is a much bigger concern then hunting.

For instance, every now and then a person will ignore the warnings here in Australia and put themselves in a position to get eaten by a crocodile. And every time that happens there is the inevitable local mayor or member of parliment who declares, contrary to all environmental data, that crocodile population levels have 'exploded' and we should start shooting them. 30 years ago, when we stopped shooting them, we had reduced crocodile numbers to a couple of percent (some say less then 1%) of their natural numbers. Lack of common sense should not be reason to start hunting a species that is below their natural population levels, especially when it is a top predator.