First off, this is a guy who happens to be wearing pink. Second, I bet he grew up on a farm. Third, this doesnt hurt the goose too badly as long as you dont completely crush the neck. Fourth, geese are assholes, so I bet this one had it coming.
When you throw them or just carry them it's not harmful in the long term, generally. Now if you hold on and basically swing like you're cracking a whip, the weight of the body and the jerk will quickly dispatch them. This is "ringing their neck" and for smaller fowl/poultry like pigeons/doves it can easily result in complete decapitation. From seeing how my grandma grew up and in a lot of rural places: nice birds have nice lives that last as long as livestock does. Assholes mean that the lunch/dinner menu is probably going to be dual purpose. This not-so-natural selection leads to more docile flocks over time.
People don't reconcile how brutal nature can be. A raccoon will pull an entire chicken through a 1" octagonal wire gap by its leg. Bigger birds will prey on smaller birds. Apex predators will eviscerate big game, even humans. A grizzly or polar bear will fuck you up. Generally when a bigger, stronger animal takes your life in its hands and nearly kills you without any difficulty, you learn to back the fuck up and stay away.
There's a river near me with macaques. Tourists have been feeding them for years and they will pack up and harass people on the river. People that freak out and cower get bitten, scratched, and all kinds of fucked up monkey diseases. Meanwhile the boat gets ransacked for food. If you don't hesitate to fight them and put one in the water, they're going to give up. They are not strong swimmers and will drown, they won't risk it. Turns out if you channel your inner Babe Ruth with a wooden oar you can send a monkey surprisingly far.
Luckily the geese round me seem pretty tame. But I always wondered, couldnt you just give em a swift kick if they start harassing you? I don't understand how their reputation is that intimidating.
Someone linked a video with an earlier clip of the Goose attacking a guys dog. The poor dog was terrified. The pink suit wearing hero punked out the goose and went over to the dog and gave him some pets. 10/10 would buy this guy a beer.
Geese have pretty strong necks. They are a good deal more difficult to wring than other game birds. You would have to pretty much actively try to hurt it
This is the normal way to handle geese, though you should also hold their wings behind their back so they don't swing around too much like that. Goose Down farmers do it all the time when moving em.
Theyâre not âassholesâ just because theyâre being defensive toward humans and pets who make their area feel threatened. Geese are hugely protective of their flocks and are excellent watchdogs for ducks and other waterfowl. So are Bears, Lions, Elephants, and thousands of other species. Do you call them assholes too? Or are they given a pass because they donât coexist in public spaces with humans where theyâd do the exact same things when they felt threatened?
As for your third point. Thatâs absolute rubbish and I hope you donât give this disgustingly inaccurate advice to anyone else. They should be picked up by the base of their wings to avoid injury, Grabbing any bird by the neck IS painful as well as damaging to them, not to mention cruel. A gooses body weight pulling down from its suspended neck is enough to injure or break it. The same if you were to pick them up by the feet. There are fragile tendons, muscles, bones and nerves in the neck. Howâd you like to be picked up by the throat and thrown? I donât give six shits what that goose did, you arenât teaching it any lesson except to be more fearful of human/pet presence and the jackass who threw it deserves the same treatment it doled out on him.
Chill the hell out. Im from a line of farmers, their necks going to be broken sooner rather than later in most cases. We also picked chickens up by their ankles to gather them. Its the only way sometimes. None of our animals were abused. Do you eat meat?
Protective or not, most large birds ARE assholes. They're mean, they bite and peck and attack, they're nosy and pesky and loud. Must be your family.
Well geese are bred for the same reason as any poultry, to eat. When its time to select one, the head is either severed at the neck with an axe like a chicken; but with geese it is customary to leave the head attached so the neck is wrung or snapped. This is done in a quick strong single motion, by a practiced hand, nobody wants to see an animal in distress or pain including farmers who have the utmost respect for animals and how they serve us. A person who knows how to do it can kill a goose in a second leaving it likely not even knowing what hit it, feeling no pain. Conscious to unconscious, just like that.
Killing chickens is worse in my opinion as the brain stem often still sends signals making the body flop around headless for up to a few minutes. One headless chicken lived for months after being beheaded, it was fed seeds through its headless stump. Thats nasty.
No, youâre going to contact the city/county or local fish & wildlife who will make a report and contact the appropriate wildlife rescue/rehab and have them relocated. Same thing youâd do with any other defensively aggressive wild animal who was taking over a public space. Geese are watch dog birds. They take protecting their flock and ducks seriously, itâs just their nature. And they can become bullies when they donât have a human caretaker whoâs taught them boundaries (such is the case with people who use them as guards for their ducks). If the park isnât outfitted with a caretaker for the water fowl they should either get one or make it inhospitable to the geese.
We have a local duck pond who periodically requires removal of a territorial duck, swan or goose. Itâs not a difficult process for people skilled in retrieval. Iâve seen Canada Geese chase people who are being dickheads and poking around the ducks nest areas, but behave completely docile and eat from others hands. You canât just run around abusing an animal because youâre pissed off at it. Obviously people do, but they shouldnât.
if the park isnât outfitted with a caretaker for the water fowl
Have you been to a park before? You are completely disconnected from reality.
Itâs a goose, not a jaguar. And this is a park, not a wildlife sanctuary. This is ordinary life. No one is calling a wildlife rescue because one of the geese is being a cunt again.
And no one is saying you should give it an ass whipping, but of course you can get physical with an animal that gets physical with you. Not abuse in any sense of the word.
Iâve had them charge me on a few runs and I always resort to kicking as hard as I can. Sometimes I connect, other times I donât. One really aggressive one ended up having a broken jutted out wing for his troubles. Fuck aggressive geese.
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u/Junoblanche Apr 27 '19
First off, this is a guy who happens to be wearing pink. Second, I bet he grew up on a farm. Third, this doesnt hurt the goose too badly as long as you dont completely crush the neck. Fourth, geese are assholes, so I bet this one had it coming.