Man Shoots Pet Duck with Pellet Gun

Circles the pact Peking duck now has an order of protection against one, Ylik Matthews, 21, after he jumped over his neighbors and in march and shot her with a pellet gun.

Circles who lives in long island is that pets of one, Janet Lippincott.  Janet pursued the order of protection and against Matthews on behalf of Circles.  Circles was not present in the war room on Friday to hear the boy apologize for shooting her.

"I just want to say I'm sorry for the stress I caused the family for hurting their innocent pet," Mathews, speaking at a near whisper, told Suffolk County Court Judge James C. Hudson.

Matthews defense attorney Mark Kirschner stated the young man, "didn't realize what the consequences would be when he was playing with that pellet gun."

He may not have realized what the consequences for the but you’ll certainly be dealing with them.  Matthews will be spending one year in jail after conviction of aggravated animal cruelty.  He will only be spending eight months there because of time already served though.  In addition the protection order was extended to 2016 which will likely last beyond Circles natural lifetime.

Circles was so traumatized by the attack that she briefly stopped laying eggs.  Although, she has now made a full recovery and is back to her egg laying ways.  She was shot in the neck by the pellet gun.

Her owners have decided to move her and the family out of state to Rural Queen Creek, Arizona.  Lippincott is quoted as saying, "I'm out of here," also attributing her decision to move to some tensions with other neighbors.

Matthews Attorney states that once he gets out of jail he will stay out of trouble and pursue a culinary career.  Perhaps the young man will have learned that when craving Peking duck he should stay away from other people’s pets.

Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liduck0719,0,2347610.story