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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...Have y'all ever MET geese? They're ornery as hell. [/quote]

Sure. So is my neighbor. Doesn’t mean I want to see him in pain after a car accident. [/quote]

DP.  Ok, but you know we aren't talking about a person here, right?  :roll: [/quote]

DP but I'm trying to understand your point here.  I agree that geese are territorial and unpleasant.  But I would not intentionally drive into one just because I didn't want to wait for a gaggle of them to cross the street.  I am deeply annoyed by deer and see them all the time in our neighborhood but I don't try to kill them because they bug me.  Okay, we all agree that geese are ornery.  So what?  It's okay to drive over one for no reason?  It's not like OP was going to eat the bird, she just killed it out of impatience.  That mindset is extremely messed up, even if geese aren't cuddly.  And they're not.[/quote]
Come on. OP didn't deliberately hit the goose; she misjudged how slowly they were moving and how incredibly stupid they are. She didn't drive over it for no reason, she drove over it because the dumb things walk everywhere when they can fly out of the way of oncoming traffic like every other bird in creation.

Can't believe these dumb animals are protected as "migratory" birds. If they migrated, they wouldn't be here in February.[/quote]

I heard a podcast once. Canada geese used to be threatened, some people tried to deal with that by introducing goslings to their local ponds, and because the goslings didn’t have parents they never learned to migrate. Other geese come down from Canada for the winter.

But they’re all protected.

- a birder with no particular fondness for Canada geese, except that I don’t think any living thing should be left to suffer [/quote]

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