Help a goose and her devistated owner

[Goosebaby]

I commented already on the post the petitioner made a little while back. I really feel her pain and I’m sure the goose would prefer to be with her but I don’t see any way she will get that goose back. From what it sounds like according to her words the goose is now a permanent resident with a rescue, which is the best scenario for the goose. Fish & game will euthanize illegally kept animals that are confiscated in some situations, they could have done this in this situation but they evidently showed some mercy.

I feel for her and the goose and I did sign it for that reason, but I did so knowing it won’t make a difference anyway.

The laws that bar people from abducting and keeping wild animals illegally exist for a reason and granting exceptions because someone just really really wants a wild animal as a pet is wrong and will just create more situations like this or far worse. Most people don’t have a clear understanding of nature and may think they’re helping by intervening but often are doing the opposite, an animal that may look like it’s in distress or abandoned may be perfectly fine and just needs to be left alone.
I wasn‘t there when the gosling was rescued but wild geese will often abduct goslings from other geese, they may seem like they’re in distress but it’s normal. Dominant Canada goose couples often do this because it boosts the odds of survival for the goslings by being raised by the most competent and experienced geese.

ignorance of the law doesn’t exempt anyone from the results of violating the law.

 

[tlcmurphy]

 

[Goosebaby]

Geez Louise, don't they have better things to do then to take away a goose that she saved as a gosling. Now both are suffering. Ugh!

One of the reasons they do this because in many situations where and animal was ”rescued” by a well meaning but ignorant individual the animal is kept isolated from it‘s kind and typically malnourished, often they live a horrible and short life or don’t learn necessary survival skills from their parent(s).

Most baby birds found in the ground aren’t abandoned, their parents are still feeding them. The babies move around on the ground to avoid predator detection. If they stayed in the nest until their flight feathers were fully developed they most likely would have been discovered by a predator. Nests aren’t homes, they’re temporary incubation platforms.
Most small birds stay close to their parents for up to a year or longer learning to communicate with their species, about safe and dangerous foods and how to forage, predators, and migration routes.
Birds “rescued” as fledglings off the ground are deprived of their parents as after a few days the parents assume their chick is dead and move on. Typically people keep these birds until they “look” like adults and then release them thinking that they’ll be fine. That’s equivalent to raising a child isolated in a cage and releasing them to the wilds when they’re about 12 and assuming they’ll do just fine.


Another example are fawns. A few years back I picked up a fawn and that had been “rescued” and Transferred him to a couple that works with a fawn rescue out of Loomis. He had been found near the side of the road by an elderly couple who immediately took him home, his mother wasn’t in view so of course he had been abandoned in their opinion. They had kept him for an unknown period of time but he had refused to drink any milk out of the bowl they gave him and they had tried to pour water down his throat with no luck. Their granddaughter was growing attached so they decided to call the rescue because they didn’t want to traumatize her by seeing the fawn die from starvation.

If they had left the fawn alone his Mother would have come to nurse him later in the day, they stay away from their fawns and only return to them to nurse and clean them. Force feeding fawns milk or water will also kill them.

 

[JRies]

I commented already on the post the petitioner made a little while back. I really feel her pain and I’m sure the goose would prefer to be with her but I don’t see any way she will get that goose back. From what it sounds like according to her words the goose is now a permanent resident with a rescue, which is the best scenario for the goose. Fish & game will euthanize illegally kept animals that are confiscated in some situations, they could have done this in this situation but they evidently showed some mercy.

I feel for her and the goose and I did sign it for that reason, but I did so knowing it won’t make a difference anyway.

The laws that bar people from abducting and keeping wild animals illegally exist for a reason and granting exceptions because someone just really really wants a wild animal as a pet is wrong and will just create more situations like this or far worse. Most people don’t have a clear understanding of nature and may think they’re helping by intervening but often are doing the opposite, an animal that may look like it’s in distress or abandoned may be perfectly fine and just needs to be left alone.
I wasn‘t there when the gosling was rescued but wild geese will often abduct goslings from other geese, they may seem like they’re in distress but it’s normal. Dominant Canada goose couples often do this because it boosts the odds of survival for the goslings by being raised by the most competent and experienced geese.

ignorance of the law doesn’t exempt anyone from the results of violating the law.

If she had only paid attention to the first post. Good and bad we had thoughts to help. Good bad or indifferent.