This bothers me...

[rainplace]

My kids really want me to let my geese have babies, but I keep refusing. First off, I don't have the room to raise both geese and ducks. And secondly, because too many people think they want geese when they see goslings and then don't want them once they become geese. Chinese geese in particular are known to be both loud and aggressive. It was for this reason I picked a chinese goose. No she doesn't go on all day long, but she has times when she is deafening.

I've been wondering for a while how many homes the average goose goes through before it finds its forever home, if it does at all. The goose I rescued for a while had already been in 4 homes and he was born this spring. Everyone in this forum knows that come breeding season, our geese go through a change. A good portion of geese during this time are not our friends, and can become willing to attack us. A lot of first time geese owners don't know this.

I found the CL posting to be irresponsible. Obviously others didn't agree. /shrug

 

[team guava pastry]

angelina, is a big pain in the rear end.

She has worked her way into our hearts.

She has her own bucket of food, her own swimming pool.

I would really miss her, if something happend to her.

 

[glenntwo]

This doesn't sound like my pair of white chinese. I've never seen mine eating slugs or other insects, although they do love to dig in puddles, so maybe they get them there.

As far as the noise factor? Well, they are noisy, but not without prompting. They normally peep and mutter to each other, only raising a fuss when they sense something unusual/dangerous, or when I go out in the yard, but most of the time they aren't a problem. I have asked my neighbors about it, and they don't seem to mind, so if they are overly noisy, it's certainly not bothering anyone.

Oddly enough, my gander is the friendly and gregarious one, while the goose is very shy and standoffish. He loves to talk to me and doesn't mind being ruffled and petted, and sometimes picked up. The goose, on the other hand, shies away from any contact, and get herself into a tizzy whenever I handle the gander. After 1 1/2 years, I am just now starting to get her to eat out of my hand, while the gander has been doing it for a year now. He only gets aggressive when he's startled or gets a little over-excited, or when the goose is in a laying mood, and even then it's never a problem, since even when he nips it doesn't draw blood. I've never had anything worse than a small bruise whenever he's caught me and latched on. Matter of fact, he likes to kind of nibble on my fingers, just holding them gently to get my attention, and if I'm sitting on the step, he'll come up behind me and pick at my hair or my eyeglass stems. All of this behavior seems to be the opposite of what other chinese owners report on this site and it makes me wonder about them sometimes (my geese, not the others on this site).

So anyway, looks like the ad is semi-misleading, although not egregiously so. I suppose you could always call out the poster, in the infamous CraigsList tradition of "Re:", but it may be that his Chinese a fairly docile. I know mine are, so it wouldn't surprise me to find others like this.