(via Duck with zip-tied beak on the mend | The Columbus Dispatch)
A zip tie was clamped tightly around the duck’s orange beak and had become imbedded.
“I could tell he was in bad shape,” said Weiser, 57, of Pickerington, who works at the store. “ He kind of looked at me like he wanted help.”
It took four others to help her capture the duck and clip off the zip tie on Jan. 10. Then Weiser drove him to the Ohio Wildlife Center’s hospital for injured wildlife on Billingsley Road in Columbus.
The duck is still recuperating at the Wildlife Center. He now weighs more than seven times what he did when he arrived, and his beak is healing nicely, according to staff members there.