I'm sure there could have been other ways to handle the situation but consider this.....the Game Wardens that responded to the duck call did so because a concerned citizen made a complaint about a woman holding wildlife in captivity. If the wardens faild to respond, they would have been in trouble for not enforcing the law. Could they have gotten a search warrant? Certainly......and wasted countless hours of a judge, and prosecutors getting that warrant. They didn't need a warrant because it was in a business open to the public and they were taken voluntarily to see the duck in the back room. The lady who had the duck admitted that her boyfriend, the miserable bafoon who owned the business, was the one who caught the duckling in the first place and gave it to her. He's the one who made all the stink and pushed his weight around with all of his name dropping and somehow scared the F&W director into making an outrageous decision to give her the duck back. Auburn prosecutor's laughed in his face and refused to file charges against the wardens....does that tell you anything? I think that from now on, any Game Warden in Washington is going to refuse to take any action when a citizen calls with a holding wildlife in captivity complaint.......why should they when their director craps backwards on them all the time.