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Poor dog…
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmThat thing was determined, even with him motoring away, it was still chasing them…crazy bird.
I would have been tempted to half drown it…or I might have stuck in in a box or my cooler. I mean there is a limit on how much I will tolerate from wildlife. Unless of course the thing is a lot bigger than me.
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that goose would look nice on the dinner table and its left overs could decorate your wall ..of course in Canada they are illegal to kill
LOL, wildlife finally fights back!! I wonder if he knows how easy it is to restrain fowl. I’d have tied that sucker up and taken it to fish and game. I’d wondered at first if perhaps it was simply protecting a nesting area but it chases him well across the pond/lake.
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My art: featherdust.comI suspect it was protecting a nest, or at least an area that it wanted to nest in. When the guy stuck around and fought with it rather than just leaving right away, the goose may have figured that it didn’t have much choice but to go all out and fight like a crazy thing. I felt sorry for the dog, who was clearly pretty confused about the whole affair.
I’m with Nam. That guy didn’t know much about restraining waterfowl. Of course, he also thought that picking it up by the neck and throwing it was going to make an impression on a large Canada goose. 🙄 Having been assaulted by an angry chicken, I can tell you that tossing a bird doesn’t really faze it. It’s as if throwing something that knows it can fly fails to intimidate it. 😛 But I am glad he stuck with nonlethal methods of dealing with the goose.
Jennifer wrote:I wonder if he knows how easy it is to restrain fowl.
Barrdwing wrote:That guy didn’t know much about restraining waterfowl.
Is knowing the right way to restrain waterfowl suppose to be common knowledge? 😆 I know some people who do, but I sure wouldn’t know how. I’d be like, you can have this boat, I’ll wait for the next one 😆
Whoa, if that goose had attacked two of my previous dogs it would be in pieces too messy to describe on this forum! 😆
purpledragonclaw wrote:Whoa, if that goose had attacked two of my previous dogs it would be in pieces too messy to describe on this forum! 😆
That’s what my husband was saying: lucky the dog is passive!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmHehe… waterfowl may have strong muscular necks and wings, but their bills are blunt. As someone who has tangoed with large geese and swans (yes! swans can be very cranky!), being smacked with the beak isn’t pleasant but it won’t do you any real harm. A rubber band around the beak keeps them from opening it (though as a disclaimer, if you ever have to do this be careful not to cover the nostrils! You want to keep it from biting, not keep it from breathing!). Never never do that to waterfowl that you don’t have control of though- it’d be a long death sentence of starvation if they got away from you with the band on their beak. 🙁
All you need to do is leave the wings folded against the body and wrap an arm around them, like a gentle hug. I find that tucking them underarm is the easiest! 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comand now we all know how to restrain waterfowl! ^^ I caught a big white goose once…I was like 6 and we would go to these ponds my dad liked to fish at…and that’s where all the geese were at, waddling around on the big grassy area. I loved chasing them around (never could catch the canadian geese) and one day this big fat white goose wasn’t quite quick enough and I dragged it by the neck back to my dad’s fishing spot ^^ he laughed so hard.
Yup, Nam’s description of goose restraint is what I had in mind. The reason I was snarking at the man in the video is because he left those wings free! Owtch! They can strike really hard with their wings. I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard that a full-grown swan can break a man’s arm by striking it with its wing.
Good point, Lokie–I really shouldn’t post when I’m tired and tetchy. 😳 I wouldn’t know how to restrain waterbirds either if it weren’t for a very interesting video we saw in school. It showed how to safely restrain a huge variety of bird species, from hummingbirds clear up to ostriches. It’s come in handy at the darndest times: I’ve had to handle great blue herons, egrets, geese, hawks, owls, eagles, all kinds of songbirds, and on one memorable occasion a very angry white pelican. The pelican was the most frightening. 😆 Those things are ferocious!
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