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This is something I've learned since having a pet goose: just how many people were chased, bitten, and traumatised by geese as children! I'd had Ida for a few years before any of my friends had kids, so I thought it was nonsense -- after all, my Ida's such a sweet good-natured creature, and if anything she runs away from visitors -- and then a friend brought over her 5 year old to see the goose.... who promptly charged him! Wings out, hissing, the whole business! Children over the age of about 7 are fine, but younger than that and you really have to make sure there's an adult between them and her.
This is something I've learned since having a pet goose: just how many people were chased, bitten, and traumatised by geese as children! I'd had Ida for a few years before any of my friends had kids, so I thought it was nonsense -- after all, my Ida's such a sweet good-natured creature, and if anything she runs away from visitors -- and then a friend brought over her 5 year old to see the goose.... who promptly charged him! Wings out, hissing, the whole business! Children over the age of about 7 are fine, but younger than that and you really have to make sure there's an adult between them and her.
