"One can't go against the word of God" - the idiom has held its good for a duck named Perky. After enduring being shot and then having her presumed dead body thrown in a kitchen fridge, the ring-necked bird has once again shown her lust for life on the operation table.

The one-pound female duck had stopped breathing Saturday while the vets were performing a surgery on her to repair gunshot damage to one wing. But the fowl suddenly came back when veterinarian David Hale of the Cross Creek Animal Hospital performed a CPR on the duck, Noni Beck of the Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary told the AP.

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

Perk made a similar surprise come back last week, when Duck hunter Dale Tadlock's wife opened her kitchen refrigerator to take out the catch her husband shot two days ago. Pamela was shocked to see a should've-been-dead duck lifting its head and gazing at her.

Tadlock's daughter took the bird to a local animal hospital, where she is reported to be recovering.