We too used to live near a lake, in an apartment. The geese there terrorized people one year.
We had a tiny little partially disabled girl ferret. She could barely walk but slithered and bounced around with gusto and she had a surfeit of chutzpah.
We bought a little leash for her, and let her explore the grass, bushes, mulch and edge of the lake, and she loved every minute of it, chucking and dooking happily.
Then the geese saw us, and started their "feed us or suffer" swarm. We of course began to back up, and as the long necked avian assholes drew closer, we thought of beating a hasty retreat.
But then our saviour leaped forth! Tiny disabled girl ferret happily bounced around at our feet and then charged at the geese like a little flailing bezerker, loudly dooking the whole time.
I'd never before seen a goose visibly think "oh fuck", and here was a couple dozen double taking geese stopping dead in their webby tracks, like a European general trying to advance east during a Russian winter. Each goose looked shocked, then confused, then terrified as they abandoned any thoughts of camaraderie and fled from this tiny whirling daemon dervish of death.
Tiny girl ferret didn't get within 4 feet of the geese. Not a single of Nature's red teeth or claws were used. But a pound or so of sinewy insane calamity managed to put the fear of a goose god into those beaky bastards.
Unfortunately they kept attacking people and were dealt with somehow. We weren't told how, the apartment complex wouldn't say anything.
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This is a true story. If you want to scare geese away, get yourself a ferret. In fact, get 3 because they are stinky social weasels who love to sleep cuddled up together. I miss my girls and boys, they were so much fun!
We too used to live near a lake, in an apartment. The geese there terrorized people one year.
We had a tiny little partially disabled girl ferret. She could barely walk but slithered and bounced around with gusto and she had a surfeit of chutzpah.
We bought a little leash for her, and let her explore the grass, bushes, mulch and edge of the lake, and she loved every minute of it, chucking and dooking happily.
Then the geese saw us, and started their "feed us or suffer" swarm. We of course began to back up, and as the long necked avian assholes drew closer, we thought of beating a hasty retreat.
But then our saviour leaped forth! Tiny disabled girl ferret happily bounced around at our feet and then charged at the geese like a little flailing bezerker, loudly dooking the whole time.
I'd never before seen a goose visibly think "oh fuck", and here was a couple dozen double taking geese stopping dead in their webby tracks, like a European general trying to advance east during a Russian winter. Each goose looked shocked, then confused, then terrified as they abandoned any thoughts of camaraderie and fled from this tiny whirling daemon dervish of death.
Tiny girl ferret didn't get within 4 feet of the geese. Not a single of Nature's red teeth or claws were used. But a pound or so of sinewy insane calamity managed to put the fear of a goose god into those beaky bastards.
Unfortunately they kept attacking people and were dealt with somehow. We weren't told how, the apartment complex wouldn't say anything.
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This is a true story. If you want to scare geese away, get yourself a ferret. In fact, get 3 because they are stinky social weasels who love to sleep cuddled up together. I miss my girls and boys, they were so much fun!