Please stay 500 feet away from this duck
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A yellow-billed Pekin duck who was ambushed by a group of pellet-gun-toting young people on Long Island, N.Y., last month has achieved an unusual kind of retribution for the bloody attack.
After one of the the duck’s assailants, Ylik Mathews, pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty charges for piercing the duck’s neck with a pellet, the judge issued the duck’s owners a full order of protection against Mathews, Newsday reported.
A key provision: the order included the duck, Circles, at right.
In 2006 the state of New York passed a law allowing pets to be included in protective orders, according to Newsday.
--Tony Barboza
