Refrigerator duck plays Lazarus again

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Refrigerator duck plays Lazarus again
Bird that lived 2 days in fridge after being shot flat-lines in surgery, revives

YEAH ONE FOR THE DUCK ZERO FOR THE HUNTER.

Updated: 4:36 a.m. ET Jan 29, 2007
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Call her Lazarus — and then some.

The ring-neck duck has been shot by a hunter, rescued from two days in a refrigerator by his wife and — in its latest brush with death — resuscitated on a veterinarian's operating table.

The one-pound female duck stopped breathing Saturday during an operation to repair gunshot damage to her wing, said Noni Beck of Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary. Veterinarian David Hale performed CPR and managed to get the fractured fowl breathing again after several tense moments.

"I started crying, 'She's alive!'" Beck said.

Perky grabbed national attention last week after a hunter's wife opened her refrigerator door and the supposedly dead duck lifted its head and looked at her. The duck had been in the fridge for two days since it was shot and mistaken for dead on Jan. 15.

Perky, who now has a pin in hers wing, will probably not undergo any more surgery because of a sensitivity to anesthesia, Hale said. The duck is recovering from its latest ordeal.

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I heard about this on Howard Stern. They discussed the strange psychology of the human mind involved in this story. At what point in a person’s mind does an animal go from being dinner to being a pet? After spending two days in a refrigerator? It’s bizarre.

Stern and his new girlfriend have become very animals rights oriented. I’ve heard Howard talk about possibly becoming vegetarian and how it disturbs him to sit near an aquarium filled with fish in restaurant if that is what he’s eating. He also recently used some air time to encourage listeners to adopt a dog (named David) in need. He won’t buy certain products if he knows that they’re made of animals hides.

A lot of people hate Howard but he’s really been taking a stand for the animals lately.

[Swamp Gas]

Howard is really not a bad guy. He upsets the Squares, and that's enough for me.

What a lot of people don't understand is that animals are actually humans trapped in a non-human body. Cats, dogs, birds, and others exhibit very human characteristics.

This story reminds me of when that guy shot the deer, thought it was dead, but it wasn't, and it actually caused a gun to kill the hunter when it tried to escape.

[KNOWTHIS]

Howard is really not a bad guy. He upsets the Squares, and that's enough for me.

He also hates the war more than ever and speaks out against it all of the time. He has a major problem with the religious right and their gay bashing as well.

Howard tore Cheney up over this ordeal this morning.

Howard said that hypocrites like Cheney have no problems at all promoting legislation that adversely effects ‘other’ people’s personal lives but when it hits too close to home then suddenly it becomes “out of bounds”. He explained that the question wasn’t at all out of line and in fact it was the perfect question to ask Cheney. Howard finished by stating that the only reason he didn’t want to answer the question is because he was afraid of losing the support of the maniac, religious right nuts.

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Cheney refuses to discuss lesbian daughter on CNN

During a sit-down interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney said questions about his lesbian daughter and her recently announced pregnancy were "out of line." Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expecting a baby in late spring.

Antigay Christian leaders have voiced dismay at news of Mary Cheney's pregnancy, while the gay rights group Family Pride has said the vice president faces ''a lifetime of sleepless nights'' for serving in an administration that has opposed legal recognition for same-sex couples.

During Wednesday's interview Blitzer said, "All of us are happy" that Mary is having a baby, adding that "some critics, though, are suggesting, for example—a statement from someone representing Focus on the Family: 'Mary Cheney's pregnancy raises the question of what's best for children. Just because it's possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn't mean it's best for the child.' Do you want to respond to that?"

"No, I don't," Dick Cheney responded.


"She's obviously a good daughter," Blitzer continued.


"I'm delighted I'm about to have a sixth grandchild, Wolf, and obviously think the world of both of my daughters and all of my grandchildren," Cheney said. "And I think, frankly, you're out of line with that question."



"I think all of us appreciate..." Blitzer pressed.



"I think you're out of—I think you're out of line with that question," Cheney said.



"Your daughter. We like your daughters. Believe me, I'm very, very sympathetic to Liz and to Mary," Blitzer continued. "I like them both. That was just a question that's come up, and it's a responsible, fair question."



"I just fundamentally disagree with your perspective," Cheney responded.