That whooshing sound was a low-flying Canada goose, pooping on my head as he went by.
I fed a goose at the Little Rock zoo when I was four.
Son of a bitch bit my finger. Hated them ever since.
I guess they never heard about not biting the hands that feed them.
,Even patriotic American birds can be nasty.
Cambridge mail carrier attacked by turkey had to have hip replaced
“They’re mean,” said Ed Mitchell, who is recovering at home."
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Wild turkeys can be nasty. Lots of stories about them attacking people.
This is the biggest reason I dislike them. There’s no such thing as a America bald eagle, an Africa or India elephant, a Eurasia lynx, or a Mexico wolf. Why on earth should we change the grammatical rules for this terrible bird?
If they’re as mean-spirited as they are now when you call them by the correct name, just imagine how irascible they’ll be if you start calling them by the wrong name! They will f*** you up!
I’m reminded of a line in the movie Fierce Creatures. One of the keepers is practicing their elevator pitch about how fearsome these adorable harmless ring-tailed lemurs really are:
Keeper w Brit accent: Why, why, they’ll raze whole villages when they get their back up!
Keep calling them Canadian Geese and they may well raze your whole village.
They aren’t there to catch them. They’re there to make them move. Border Collies are actually trained to not catch things. Because you rarely want your sheep mauled by a dog.
I personally prefer Canada Geese to most humans, myself. Canada Geese have changed their habits, that’s the problem.They’ve learned how to use human-altered environments to their benefit. Many have become sedentary and no longer migrate. In many cases they’ve lost their fear of humans and have become menacing, especially during breeding season (when all geese get aggressive).
I can attest that swans are scary up close. When I was four or five I was a park in Vancouver and a swan walked up to me (we about the same size) and sucked my shoelace out of my shoe. It was traumatizing.
If there is one thing you can say about Canada geese, it’s that if there is ever an apocalypse that results in the breakdown of society and the food distribution network, you’ll have geese to eat. There’s a billion of them, and they’re so stupid and aggressive that you could hunt them with a golf club.
You haven’t seen me golf.
We had a pair near our house. When nesting, the male would run our dog around as a distraction to keep him away from the nest.(which he actually had no interest in, but the goose didn’t know that)
The bond, at least in the Spring, of the mating pairs is very strong and fun to watch. Also, I love seeing the new families swim by together after they hatch.
Some geese are donated to food banks. Thousands of airport geese slaughtered, donated to food pantries in past four years – New York Daily News
They used to feed convicts lobster because bug meat was economically valueless. Now, … not so much.
Maybe we can make Canada Goose into the next trendy food. Then, like Chilean Sea Bass and Orange Roughy (AKA Patagonian toothfish and slimehead respectively), all the Americans in search of trendy dining will simply eat the pesky geese into near extinction in a couple of years. No more poop all over our parks & running paths. Yaay!
I can across an article in the Arkansas Democrat or the Arkansas Gazette (I get them confused) from 1957 about a monkey at the Little Rock Zoo who bit the finger off of a little girl. One of the reasons I remember the article so well is that reporter wrote “This was the monkeys first offense” and I thought it was just an odd turn of phrase. As if there’s some legal system at the zoo or something. A kangaroo court maybe…
You want them producing stinky farts along with slippery poop???
Gives us (The SDMB) a whole new reason to roll-eyes or be frustrated by a slippery slope argument…
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No worries, wasn’t me.
If it were it’d give a new meaning to “Zombie thread.”
Exactly. Those posters still unfamiliar with the vicious bastards might read of goose shit and picture the annoying-but-small splats that show up on your car when you park under a tree. Not so; geese produce huge, disgusting turds. Like a pack of incontinent dogs on a high-carb diet. Nasty.