Monday, May 25, 2009

Goosey

Clint and his dad were fishing the river up by his dad's house last weekend. On the float down they saw this cute little Goose family swimming in the river. One gosling kept getting left behind. On their way back home they saw a lone gosling...no parents anywhere. The little guy(or gal, how do you tell?) swam right up to their boat and kept bumping up against it! After watching it for awhile and thinking it had been abandoned, Clint decided to rescue it.
Yes, he brought it home, if you can call that rescuing it:-) My kids are in heaven. It's probably about 1 week old. It's the most adorable thing we've ever seen. It hates being alone, loves to be held and snuggled, follows the kids around, makes the cutest sounds you've ever heard and is just so sweet! We named it Goosey. We plan to take it over to the Greenbelt where there are tons of goslings and see if a family might adopt it. Anybody have any other ideas? Because I'm open to hearing them. We're feeding it chick feed and letting it swim in the tub/sink, but I'm afraid it's imprinting on our family.



3 comments:

Par 5 said...

See Melanie, you would get "mother of the year" for letting a gosling into your home. I get it for not putting sunscreen on my 11 month old child. :) It isn't a super real award, and any mother can get it, at any time of the year. Just don't expect a trophy. Come to think of it, I let Kaysha keep a lady bug in a jar and name it, so again, another example of a "Mother of the Year" moment.

Julia said...

I've heard geese make great guard dogs!

Pirate Princess said...

That is so adorable! We loved watching it run - did you already drop him off or are you keeping him? We had domestic geese growing up - they can grow up to be a real pain when they attack legs!