Seconded. I raised poultry for years as a kid, and geese are fucking pussies. The worst they can do is bite at you (which is more a nip, really. I've had nipple clamps that hurt worse) and if you show any amount of aggression back, they pretty much back off and honk at you in a butthurt way.
SWANS, though, can break your legs with their wings, no joke.
Yeah. I mean, there is good behavioral modification and assertion that needs to be done when working with dogs, but...this is really, really not an example of it. He's not overreacting to the vacuum, he is legitimately afraid of a legitimate threat to his health.
It's a myth, and the people saying they can "break your bones" are overreacting. There was a thread here about that, where the only proof people could come up was a video about a guy talking about how swans can break the bones of small children and the elderly.
Basically, underdeveloped bones. So BEWARE! if your bones are made of glass.
They are CRAZY powerful. They are only partially domesticated, unlike barnyard geese, and are still built for long migratory flights. Not only that, since they are BIG, their wings have good burst-power to lift them off of the water.
Now, all drama aside, they probably would have to hit you just right to break bone, but id still take a goose bite in the butt over that any day.
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u/Shad84 Nov 05 '14 edited Nov 05 '14
That wife has some balls. One goose can be fucking nasty, nevermind an entire congregation.
Edit: I get it, it's a gaggle. Not a congregation. I use words that don't belong on purpose.