Comments on: Flying Feathered Geese

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:33:20 +0000

Today when I got back from lunch there was an injured young Canadian goose in our parking lot. It had been hit by a car and couldn’t walk on one of its legs. I called the wildlife rescue in my area and they asked me to capture it if possible. So I put it in a cardboard box (it didn’t put up much of a fight, assuming that means it was very injured) and waited for them to show up to take it. About a half hour went by and the bird struggled in the box a couple of times but then by the time the rescue got here the young goose had died. I can’t help but feel responsible, if maybe i should have let him go into the water nearby instead of capturing him, putting him into maybe too small of a box and causing him to suffocate or die of shock in the heat? Anyone know what the right move should have been? I used a small box intentionally because I didn’t want it to be able to thrash around and injure itself further. Maybe that was a mistake…

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:17:06 +0000

I would assume that you have witnessed an irresponsible act by a teen age driver or some other “Adult” human for whom there are no words to that define that level of stupidity.

Sad that you had to witness this event.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:04:02 +0000

Did anyone who witnessed this try to get the injured goose to a wildlife hospital or rehabilitator? I don’t know where you’re located but please always report such injuries if you can’t take the animal in yourself. If you need a list of such places in your area for future reference, please let me know and I can forward a list. There’s no need for a wild animal to suffer without help after an incident like this. I have frequently taken road-injured animals if I can safely catch them. If not, I call animal control or a local wildlife rescue.

By: CDGardens

CDGardens — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:29:03 +0000

Ahhhh, poor goose…Sorry you had to witness that event. You wonder if that person was a hunter or not? Are they a PETA person, who will inflict the pain and point to someone else?

By: bigkill.com

bigkill.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:30:25 +0000

they could have killled themselves! hitting anything at high speeds with your car is dangerous.. this folks obviously are as stupied as they are mean and hateful.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:56:33 +0000

That is a cool picture and it is sad to here what happened.

It pains me to think that some people have no respect for wildlife at all and that sometimes people driving just are not paying attention to the road. Either way it is sad to have something like that happen.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:08:03 +0000

I live in an area with lots of Canada Geese -there’s one area where mom & dad goose cross a 4 lane highway with their babies (residential) and we all stop for them every time. I’ve even waited while they crossed my tee box just last weekend while golfing. They scare me when they are on the ground – they are fast and they hiss like a cat!!

By: haleyhughes

haleyhughes — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:57:08 +0000

That’s infuriating. I’m not even a big fan of Canada geese, for all the mess they make. Giant pidgeons, really.

I saw someone deliberately drive through a flock of geese like that once, killing two adults. They were accelerating going into the flock on a quiet residential street, so there was no doubt it was deliberate. My only consolation was that one of the birds broke their windshield.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:28:31 +0000

That is too bad. Hopefully it is just case of not paying attention, and that it wasn’t done on purpose.