A Florida hunter brought the duck home after shooting it. His wife put the duck in the fridge, but some time later it moved when she opened the door-giving her a scare. Instead of becoming dinner, the family took the duck to the vet, with a fractured wing and broken leg.
The lucky duck is expected to make a full recovery.
Apparently the young duck has a low metabolism and closed it’s eyes after the hunter shot it.
Hopefully it will have quite a story to tell it’s grand ducklings someday.
Doug 
I feel sorry for the Hunter. No way his wife is going to ever let him duck hunt again. No-way! :shock:
Then there was the year I brought a Kangaroo mouse home in the pocket of my field coat during pheasant season.
My dad found a gallon jar to make a house for it - mother never forgave him (or me).
My brother forgot his .22 rifle while running the trap line one day. Large raccoon in a trap and he knocks it over the head, hard, then puts it into the trunk of the car. He gets home, opens the trunk and surprise! The coon sits up, looks at him and bolts, never to be seen again. He is fortunate that coon didn’t tear into him as they are an ill tempered critter at times.
Loved chomping down on duck meat, not bird shot. In Montana raised 60 or so ducks. Built a pond, took them for ‘bug-walks’, raised most of them from their own eggs. Had to pay a guy to kill and dress them for me. Gave my ‘pets’ away; couldn’t force myself to eat one. Both geese included!
When you get attached to animals, they don’t look like food anymore. When I was a kid, we had a couple of rabbits and being completely naive, I thought of them as pets. I sit down at the dinner table and my mother places something SHE calls CHICKEN!, on the table. There have been many conspiracy’s in history and that was ONE of them!
When certain members of the family grinned at me at the dinner table, I knew I had been had!
I was MAD at my mother for a week or two.
Doug
hopping mad no doubt,
JC,
My Dad was a good hunter and put plenty of fresh meat on the table, including ducks and geese. Lost all my baby teeth biting down on birdshot. Saved on dental bills. Well, the birdshot and a string saved on dental bills.
DShock,
Had the same thing happen to me. I knew something was funny when I asked for a wing and Mom told me that poor chicken didn’t have any wings. Didn’t find out until I went to feed my pet bunny the next morning before school. Dad just let me know we were having a hard winter. I was still mad at Mom for trying to put one over on me.
REE
I came within a HARE of PELTing my Mother with COTTON TAILS, for the sake of PETER and JACK (the rabbits)
I had just EATEN THEM!
THANKS MOM!
I was like totally ZONKERED! after that.
I was considering being HOPPING mad, but decided that the ridicule wouldn’t be worth it.
I vowed to never again let someone pull the HARE over my eyes!
After that, I refused to enjoy Easter, looking for eggs and I wasn’t comfortable adjusting the RABBIT ears on our TV anymore.
That’s All Folks!
Doug
Doesn’t anyone realize that history is being made here?
These are the first reported cases of “Catch and Release” hunting and trapping.
‘Strang and uninteresting titbits, but true,’ from the ‘Wasted Life of one James Castwell.’ “I read that little green book so early in life I thought that was how it was spelled, compleat.”
Last Fall a woman was arrested for having 164 Rabbits and not taking care of them.
Today it is reported that she stole over 100 of the Rabbits from the shelter where they were being held.
She was caught in Centralia Washington.
I hope the Governor or JC can do something about this problem.
Doug (it’s compleat-ley unacceptable)
What struck me as odd about this story is that it means the hunter did not clean/dress/gut the bird before storing it for a few days. I always beheaded and cleaned out the innards of grouse in the field before going back home. I even clean fish that I’m going to keep right away as well. I always though it was unhealthy to leave anything “intact” for days on end.
- Jeff
The English ‘hang’ the birds a few days (gutted by means of a ‘gut-hook’) hence the phrase “the goose hangs high.” High meaning the… smell!
RW here,
Did a lot of pheasant hunting when I was younger. More than once I’ve had an onery cock-pheasant I thought was dead come alive when I later took them out of the game pocket to clean them.
Later, RW
I was not raised to hunt, but I have heard of hanging birds.
Isn’t it proper procedure to clean birds soon after they are shot??? Is there any traditions where a animal hangs uncleaned for a time???
Thanks,
Doug
I always cleaned game birds (duck,geese,pheasant, grouse, quail, hun’s and chuckars) in the field. However it was done at days end. Yes, I too have had a couple angry pheasant roosters come alive in the back of my game jacket. You don’t forget those moments. Regarding the English on dressing out birds. I have been told, there are a few who hang the bird by the neck against a building and when the bird falls off the nead it is deemed ready for the pot.
I was watching the Sunday Evening News and they reported that the ‘DUCK’ DIED on the operating table during surgery for a broken wing and leg. The ‘DUCK’ then came back to life and is going to live.
Any other info will be reported promptly.
Doug
I forgot to add that the Doctor did CPR on the ‘DUCK’
Many years ago Dad and I shot a bunch of mallards near Manila, Utah. We thought they were all dead and placed them in the trunk of his car. We then stopped in the center of the little town of Manila to get lunch and decided to put the guns in the trunk. I opened the trunk and one of the ducks hoped out and started running down the street. I had a heck of a time catching the poor duck as I was wearing hip boots. The citizens of Manila were really laughing when we finally dispatched the duck and boy was my face red. :oops:
Tim