House Goose?

[newgoosegirl]

I'm wondering if anyone here keeps a goose or geese in their house. There's an indoor duck thread, but our ducks live outside and aren't all that sociable, and my goose is my very best friend, so I figured I should be posting on a goose thread instead of getting in on the duck people's conversation.

You might already know that I have an indoor/outdoor pet pilgrim goose, as I mostly post on the subject of pet geese in some way because that's all I have experience with concerning geese. Anyways, do any of you have a goose who not only sneaks inside on occasion but has a diaper/other arrangement and a place in not only your heart but your house as well?

Anyway, it's late and my goose doesn't like being penned with the ducks when she belongs in here, so I'm going to end this post and go get her so she can try to eat my keyboard.

 

[The goose girl]

I do.

My goose Keld lives in the house with me as much as he wants. That said, now that he's a grownup he prefers to spend most of his time outside in the yard. Up until he was about three months old he went wherever I went - or I placed him with a "goosesitter".

He wears a diaper from indoorducks.com around the house. At night he sleeps in my bed or in the living room. He doesn't really like to cuddle with my two cats, so when they invade the bed, he honks off to the living room. Sometimes he wants out at night, and since we don't have any problems with predators around here, I let him.

Whenever he wants in, he rattles the cat flap and honk and I go open the door for him. I'm planning to install a dog flap this summer, but it doesn't fit the door, so I'll have to figure out how and where to install it.

I brought him with me when I visited my family for Christmas. We spent six days at their place and everyone got along fine. There he didn't want to leave the house, so he wore the diaper 24-7. He sits in the trunk of my car and I'm having such a blast watching other drivers questioning their sanity when he stands up and looks out the rear window.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'd love to see a video of that, once we had to take our goat to the vet after she had her baby, well if that didn't turn some heads..we had Momma and baby goat in the back seat of a volkswagon fast back

 

[Silver Spring Waterfowl]

I used to take my two Nubian goats in the car for ice cream. We'd get some crazy looks. One lady rolled her window down at a stop light and told me "Them some UGLY dogs!" Jill rebutted that statement, "Maaaaa!!!" The woman about hit her head on the roof!

DH has a Rule (lots, really): No geese in the house. Period. Except Hootie. She was the only survivor of last year's first clutch. The others got too cold after the chickens got stupid and Ruby could't get back on the nest while the eggs were hatching. She lived in the bath tub until she was 2 months old. She's kind of autistic almost. It didn't do her any good. SHe was alone for much of the day except for a stuffed kangaroo. Now she talks to sticks and buckets and doesn't interact with the other geese much. She did take on a set of last year's goslings (once she realized that they weren'y going to hurt her -they were 5 days old), but no interest in mating so far this year. I think there's hope for her, at least as a foster Mom!

Wish I could let mine in now and then. Hootie used to like TV.