A mallard in Idaho got a second shot at life after a veterinarian removed a blow dart impaling her face.
The female fowl was rescued last week in Lake Lowell, with a little help from a local student’s inventive senior project. After weeks of failed attempts, Lake Lowell Animal Rescue finally caught the duck on Jan. 25 with a net gun designed by Matthew Gillikin, a grad student at Boise State University, KOMO reports. We never would have gotten her before she succumbed to an injury or infection related to this dart without this device, as we literally tried everything else, the animal rescue wrote on Facebook.