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Is this the world’s luckiest duck?
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In an unbelievable twist ‘Tully’ the wood duck survived for several days after being cruelly shot through the head with a nail gun.
These shocking images – including an x-ray – show how the four-inch nail lodged itself in the poor animal’s skull.
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It took rescuers a gruelling three days to capture the wood duck who had the item protruding from both sides of its head.
The apparently unconcerned bird was then rushed him for an emergency op at a local vets in Devon Meadows, Victoria, Australia.
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After giving Tully an anaesthetic vets were able to remove the nail which had pierced his head just 4-mm from an eye.
Nigel Williamson, 43, from Australian Animal Rescue, was eventually able to catch him after a concerned member of the public raised the alarm.
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He said: “Before trying to capture him I watched the duck to see what the situation was and he was just waddling around feeding, swimming and doing everything a duck should be doing with this nail in his head.
“He didn’t seem bothered about it at all but in his healthy state it meant he was still very hard to get hold of.
“When we got him to the vets we found it had missed all the vital organs including his brain. We were able to get it out in about 15 minutes.”
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Concerned Nigel think that “mindless yobbos” were to blame.
He said: We don’t know who did it but we see a lot of these kind of bizarre injuries when the schools break up for holidays. It might have been kids.
“It really is just a blatant act of senseless cruelty,” he added. “Someone had obviously targeted this defenceless creature and fired a nail gun at him.”
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“It’s hard to believe anybody would want to do something like this. Fortunately he is making a great recovery.”
The duck will now spend 10 days on an antibiotics course to stop infection before being released.
Words by Liam Miller
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