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Geese and ducks follow the first thing they see as they're hatching - they're being 'imprinted' and believe you're their mother! I don't think they know much about their fathers, as is getting to be ever more common anyway, LOL...Get a few geese to hatch in your presence and you'll have some companions for life...

posted by Nautikos on October 4, 2017 at 7:45 PM | link to this | reply

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Old farmers usually become sentimental and tolerate foxes.

posted by C_C_T on October 4, 2017 at 9:58 AM | link to this | reply

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yes I expect so and one gets used to birth and death on a farm. 

posted by Kabu on October 3, 2017 at 1:20 PM | link to this | reply

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Yes adnohr always remember to catch hold of the neck but don't let its wings smack against the legs. Chewed any rhubarb lately?

posted by C_C_T on October 3, 2017 at 10:46 AM | link to this | reply

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Of course and lets face it RP, if we were all born with long big ears one would have to how to wiggle them to become attractive.

posted by C_C_T on October 3, 2017 at 10:43 AM | link to this | reply

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Yes they get kind of set on an object or person if a mother goose is not at hand.

posted by C_C_T on October 3, 2017 at 10:40 AM | link to this | reply

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I think kids do not realize Kabu, and of course brought up in a farming community it was just a normal exciting experience that would make you shrink with horror today.

posted by C_C_T on October 3, 2017 at 10:39 AM | link to this | reply

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Yes Pat and it had a cruel religious reason behind it as did most nursery rhymes.

Someone had a subtle sense of humour, that's how we spell it.

posted by C_C_T on October 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM | link to this | reply

Oh yes - geese can be wicked! Had had the experience. Is it only as we age that we realize how we keep trying to stick the pieces back together?

posted by adnohr on October 2, 2017 at 5:27 PM | link to this | reply

Beauty changes, as does one's concept of it. Great poem. 

posted by Sea_Gypsy on October 2, 2017 at 12:19 PM | link to this | reply

It was quite a scene with the goose...Our perceptions of people, places and things do change over the years.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on October 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM | link to this | reply

here now I am old and crazy I suppose I am trying to save the creatures in the woods but when I was a kid I would watch in fascination as Dad killed a sheep.

posted by Kabu on October 1, 2017 at 5:14 PM | link to this | reply

Goosey goosey gander, where do you wander?

Up the stairs and down the stairs and in milady's chamber... Your story of the goose brought this old verse to mind.  I enjoyed your poem, all the questions... 

posted by Pat_B on October 1, 2017 at 1:43 PM | link to this | reply