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[quote=Anonymous]NP. Animal control officers would take the goose to a shelter if it’s still alive and a vet would evaluate it there. It might not be useful to take the goose to a regular vet because birds have different anatomies from cats and dogs and you’d need to track down an avian vet. But, animal rescue officers know where to take injured animals (like City Wildlife in DC, and I believe there’s one in Maryland, maybe in Damascus, that the MoCo animal officers would take the goose to). These specialized places have vets, xrays and other equipment and can make a decision about treatment or euthanasia.

Canada Geese might be protected in the US under the Migratory Bird Treat Act but I’m not an expert on that.

I’m against animal suffering, but letting Animal Control make the calls seems reasonable. We had a creek in our backyard where I grew up and one day some kids with a bow and arrow shot 24 ducks. My mom piled them into our station wagon with a lot of newspaper and my dad’s blessing (my lawyer dad always regretted not going to vet school) and took them all to the vet, and my parents paid for it.

Again, not saying OP needed to drive even one goose to the vet or a shelter. But if it was injured and not dead, not even calling animal control seems cold. [/quote]

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