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A ring-necked duck nicknamed Perky is garnering international fame after surviving at least three brushes with death. Perky was shot, left for dead in a refrigerator, then, As Mike Vasilinda reports, stopped breathing while a vet repaired her broken wing.

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Perky spends most of her time huddled in the corner of her cage on a heating pad. She was shot by a hunter January 15 and spent the next two days his refrigerator until his wife discovered that Perky was still alive. Noni Beck has been caring for the duck ever since.

�She would normally be outside now, so that� the cold doesn�t really surprise me that she made it through. You know? I guess there�s enough oxygen in the refrigerator to keep the ducking going, so�� says Beck.

The duck�s story has traveled around our daffy world. T-shirts went on sale with the cash going to wildlife rehab. Then it appeared Perky was no longer such a lucky duck.It was while Perky was being operated on over the weekend to have her broken wing fixed that she stopped breathing� temporarily.

�She looked dead�� says Doctor David Hale who performed the operation. But then, he says �Probably 30 seconds later, you know, up comes the head and her little wings start to move and lucky the duck does what lucky the duck does so well.�

So there she sits: safe and sound, recovering from a broken wing. The prognosis is good in every way, Beck says �It�s just a very quiet little bird, with just a strong will to live.� But it is highly unlikely Perky will ever return to the wild.