Gosling, what are you doing in Iowa?

[cheerful_deviant]

DES MOINES, Iowa - Customers of a south side print shop beware of the hissing goose. For the second year in a row, a Canada goose has made the front door area of Artcraft Inc., her home. Mother Goose, as she's called, greets customers by hissing at them.

Last year, she hatched a gosling just a few feet from the front door. She has already made a nest this year.

"I had one customer call from a cell phone and ask if she would bite," said Judi Williams, the company's office manager. "She hisses, but she doesn't bite. Otherwise, everybody thinks she's pretty cool."

Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials said geese have no teeth and don't carry rabies. They rarely nip, but are known to hiss when people or animals invade their space.

There are about 80,000 Canada geese in Iowa, said Guy Zenner, a state waterfowl research biologist.

"You're going to see things like this," Zenner said. "Everything a goose needs is right there, and they're never exposed to mortality."

 

[minsue]

Not me. I've got a couple of relatives there, though. That side of the family, doesn't surprise me in the least.

 

[Guest]

Not me. I've got a couple of relatives there, though. That side of the family, doesn't surprise me in the least.

you wear that clown outfit to frighten me, dont you
im going back to bed to have nightmares.
*sob*

 

[minsue]

you wear that clown outfit to frighten me, dont you
im going back to bed to have nightmares.
*sob*

Nope, it was to frighten Joe.

I'll change back for ya before I head off to work.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Nope, it was to frighten Joe.

I'll change back for ya before I head off to work.

[singing]Home, home on the range,
Where the Geese and the rodeo clowns play..."[/singing]

(Gotta admit, it frightens me a little to. )

 

[R. Richard]

cheerful_deviant:
Let me give you some kindy words of wisdom. Tread very lightly with Canada Geese! The large males can go 15 pounds and they are very aggressive birds. The males will defend their territory and I suspect a mama goose will as well.

In the area where I live the animal control people would much rather handle a nasty stray dog than a Canada Goose. In the course of my work I sometimes have to walk through flocks of Canada Geese. They are wild birds but will let me get within about two feet of them with a sort of "you lookin' for trouble boy?" attitude about them. I am not lookin' for trouble. You should not either!

JMHO.

 

[minsue]

cheerful_deviant:
Let me give you some kindy words of wisdom. Tread very lightly with Canada Geese! The large males can go 15 pounds and they are very aggressive birds. The males will defend their territory and I suspect a mama goose will as well.

In the area where I live the animal control people would much rather handle a nasty stray dog than a Canada Goose. In the course of my work I sometimes have to walk through flocks of Canada Geese. They are wild birds but will let me get within about two feet of them with a sort of "you lookin' for trouble boy?" attitude about them. I am not lookin' for trouble. You should not either!

JMHO.

They winter here, but I found them to be less nasty than our plain ol' white geese that live here year round. In high school, there was a pond with geese on my way to and from school. The Canadian geese were a bit moody, but the native ones would chase you. Nasty lil fuckers.

 

[yui]

They winter here, but I found them to be less nasty than our plain ol' white geese that live here year round. In high school, there was a pond with geese on my way to and from school. The Canadian geese were a bit moody, but the native ones would chase you. Nasty lil fuckers.

This reminds me of the essay "A Scourge of Swans" by Bailey White. A man decides to take on a swan in his fishing pond and ends up in the hospital for a week.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

The Worst Thing about Canadian Geese is neither their hissing nor their biting. Except for a rather vigorous pinching bite, they are - individually - harmless.

However, if you piss them off, they will get all there brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents, and great grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, first, second, and third cousins, and strange Canadian Geese flying through, to come over and shit in you Ornamental Pool.