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You may consider this reply as spliting words but IMO geese are not aggressive they are just very protective of what they consider their own. It sounds like your terror considered the lake to be his. Didn't he warn people that approached but they went closer anyway so he attacked? It is likely to happen again and if children are to be considered, don't get a goose. Just my opinion,
The lake was a neighborhood lake, owned by everyone who lived there, it frustrated people that they couldn't go fishing in their own lake and swim in their own swimming holes with out have a Giant goose goosing you in the crotch or grabbing you by the ear. Your right in that the goose saw the lake as his and he gaurded it bravely, protecting his beloved girl, most of us knew that but we usually did not judge Clyde too harshly...we put up with his antics which is is saying something. But, most of the problems did not arise when Clyde(his name) was in the water but when him and his choosen girl decided to go out on excursions into the neighborhood.There favorite place was on the side of a rocky road. It was the place where people put their boats in and drove between the houses in the front and back.
This was a high traffic area(as far as Traffic goes in out neighborhood
) Children, people walking, people fishing, driving trucks, cars, and four wheelers. It was here that Clyde got into the most trouble.
He would attack the people walking and fishing, attack the cars, trucks, and four wheelers, attack the people fishing and putting their boats in the water. He was a mild nuisance when he was in the water, he was a Terror when he decided to leave it.
He had a field to graze in, their was a small pond he could have taken his girl too, but he wanted this small area by the rocky road as his own.
That is why Clyde was a Terror. He was not satsified with having the water in the lake where people could avoid him without trouble as his own, he wanted the entire neighboorhood, and he fought for it on a regular basis.
The problem was Clyde was a coward when it came to people, and when he had a choice between attacking a man or his three year old child he went for the Three year old.
I probably should not have asked the question are all geese aggressive, I probably should have worded it better, like, Is a Goose a good Idea for me.
I wanted something that would grow up with my ducks and protect them as they grew, I wanted something that would grow up and not be so afraid of me as Ducks become as they grow, I wanted someone to keep the widow bonnie(Clyde's mate) company because she is a very sweet Goose herself. But I am nervous about that because of how aggressive Clyde was and how angry he made people including my dad around here.
Bonnie and Clyde were practically wild geese(the poor things had been released into the lake as giant fuzz balls, they were still feed mind you but they did not have the benefit of a brooder at an age I would have keept mine) I still remember walking out there one morning and seeing the Giant clunky things and wondering, WHAT ON EARTH ARE THOOSE THINGs! I was going to bring them home with me until the owner came out and told me those were his new Geese. There were four then, then two, now one and I feel bad for Bonnie because she really is a good Goose.
I just wanted to know if a Goose, hand raised with good care and a warm brooder at night, would turn out differently from Clyde.
