Re: Duck, duck - GOOSE

Way too many others would come running - but only if you were also holding a
canopener.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Duck, duck - GOOSE


> I had a cat once named "Goose." Maybe you should name your goose "Cat."
>
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>
> > Well, it is nice to be able to help critters. We had a long hair,
> > black,
> > male kitten show up in our garage the other day. It's "ours" now. It
> > was
> > only around 8 weeks old. No other cats or kittens around. Just him. How
> > does that happen? We are out in the country off of a major highway?
> > Weird.
> >
> > No, I haven't name the goose yet. I'm open for any ideas??? Gardenchat
> > -
> > NAME THAT GOOSE! I am running out of animal names, LOL, we have so
> > many!
> >
> >
> >
> > Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> > <4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:
> > Jesse,
> > I would love to have your situation. Being able to take in animals that
> > need help. Have you named him yet?
> >
> > Kitty
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jesse Bell"
> > To: "Gardenchat"
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:34 AM
> > Subject: [CHAT] Duck, duck - GOOSE
> >
> >
> >> When I woke up yesterday, my DH wanted me to come and see what he had
> >> done that morning. We bought 7 acres across the road and it was WAY
> >> overgrown. He had been brushogging it for the last week but he cleared
> >> away from the two ponds down there and it looked really NICE! So I
> >> hopped on the tractor with him to see what he had done. While we were
> >> driving around the ponds we saw a "duck" waddling really fast towards
> >> us, then it jumped in the pond to swim after us. I looked at him and
> >> said, "what the heck, is that one of OUR ducks that flew over here?"
> >> He
> >> said no, it was too white. Hmmm. So we went back to our tractoring,
> >> spotted a cotten mouth snake, shot it and the "duck" was no where to
> >> be
> >> seen. I guess the gun startled it. A few minutes later..I look behind
> >> us
> >> and this "duck" is running, frantically after us over the pond dam. I
> >> told Robert is was chasing us down. He didn't believe me. When we
> >> turned
> >> around he was running after us AGAIN. I said "stop, right now and find
> >>
> >> out what is wrong with this poor thing". We had a heck of a time
> >> catching it. The "duck" turns out to be a wild goose. It's a baby,
> >> with
> >> just a few pin feathers on it and all downy. He was soaking wet from
> >> the
> >> swim and shaking. So...we took him home and fed him, bought him a
> >> kiddy
> >> swimming pool and watched him half the day. He follows me all OVER the
> >> place...he even walked in the HOUSE to keep up with me. It is the
> >> sweetest baby I've ever seen. It must have been abandoned or
> >> something.
> >> Every year we see a pair of Canadian geese over there with a nest on
> >> the
> >> little island in the pond. Must be one of those babies that got left
> >> behind. I just love it.
> >>
> >>
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