Geese are passionate about maintaining their personal space.
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Geese are full of shit. Actually that's wrong, they're slightly less than full since they just shat all over your car.
I know some gardeners with a different view of squirrels.
HONK
There must be big differences between species, because my local geese population is the chillest bunch. They just move out of the way when you walk by them. I think they breed elsewhere so that might be it.
Geese are tenacious
I think they're beautiful, and looking into their infamously bad behavior is where I began to learn about birds often pairing for life and are very loving and protective parents.
If not for the overproduction of messy poo, I'd rank them much higher, but I love geese in principle.
Goose poop isn't as messy and liquid as most birds. It's more like little cylinders.
Tell that to my hands as I'm biking along the sidewalk along the river. I had to grab leaves to rub off goose poop. Miserable animals
See, I prefer the liquid poo. It dries quick and doesn't track if you step on it. If it's somewhere you have to clean it up, it rinses or fairly easily scrubs off. Chunky goose poo is just like 10,000 mini dog poos on my walk to work or at the park, etc. and it sits forever or gets stuck in shoe tread. Yuck.
Here Lies anon6789
I prefer the liquid poo.
R.I.P.
It's on your tombstone now. No takebacks.
Work with animals and this is not the weirdest thing I said on a regular basis by far.
Never would I have expected that I would spend many Sunday mornings this summer talking to so many beautiful young ladies about treating inflamed squirrel penises. But someone needs to teach them!
I prefer the liquid bird poo cleanup over the mammal poo in nearly all cases, though stressed out hawks can do some gnarly things.
Geese are the bouncers of the park, making sure no bad vibe people get in.
GEESE are delicious
Deer are not gentle. Approach a mule deer and find out how gentle they are. They're skittish and wary
Geese are entertaining how dare you
I shit talk them too as a joke but as long as you show no fear and don’t threaten their babies they’re just rubbernecked goofballs who poop a lot in unfortunate places.
geese take more shit than they give. i think they're neat.
If owls are wise it must be in a Forrest Gump kind of way. They are not smart birds. Their eyes take up basically all the space where other birds would keep their brain.
*Opossums
Possums are at least a thing.
Never heard of squirells though. 😄
We don't talk about "them"...
Geese are MEAN.
Geese are the cats of the lakeside
More like the mama moose.
False. Cats like me