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Now you've done it . GEEESE. I used to have about ten.Homeschool 
project.Didn't need a lawn mower for years. Great watch dogs!!!!Much better 
than the dogs. Got down to about two(tufted Romans,one of the gentler 
breeds). Raised one from an egg,(teary eyed now),He fell in love with my 
white lab, I have pictures of them 'walking together'. One day I came down 
the road, and someone left the gate open, and the two of them were "running 
away together".Now our labs loved to dig out and go to the creekk and would 
ignore my basic 'come', but this day, my lab was nicly sauntering down the 
road with the goose. Sometimes the lab would run to the house and the goose 
would try to fly and keep up with her. If the dogs got locked in the pen 
outside on a nice day, the goose would sit next to the pen.
At night we had the 'goose alarm' go off , they helped us catch maurauding 
possums that were killing our chickens. Unfortunately we lost him to two 
raccoons one night. Poor max, and the funny thing was was, the dog he was in 
love with, tried to tear his neck off as a puppy, and we had to take him to 
have his neck sewn up. They took slides to use for their students in vet 
schools,so if you ever see a book with a white goose with a bump on his head 
and his neck being sewn up it was our Max(pass the kleenix now).
He did take a dislike to our youngest son and would hide under the porch and 
run out and chase him.Wesley got to taking a pot lid out with him when he 
went to play. ah, memories..
We did keep them next to the horse pasture not in it, as they would foul the 
trough.








> From: Karen Clanin <kclanin@xxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   guard birds
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:24:37 -0800
>
> actually, guinea hens and peacocks are great alarms (as are geese), the 
> peacocks particularly make a lot of loud noise at anything out of the 
> ordinary.
>
> keep in mind that dogs can be 'taken care of' if someone really wants where 
> the dog is -- poison laced meat works well unless the dog has been trained 
> not to touch anything outside of its bowl.  people have been known to bring 
> a bitch in heat to distract male guard dogs if they really want in -- or 
> want the dog in case of dognappers.
>
> bringing pasture horses up to near the house at night, motion lights as 
> suggested by others and locks on gates.  electric fence with a good punch 
> can also be a nice deterent!!!!!!
>
> karen
>
>
>
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