Oh my gosh yes . Geese we stay clear of . There's a news reel I saw lately or radio show were they spoke of how nasty they can be . Do not go near them if they have young . My mum told me that years ago .
The swan was amzingly friendly but I had tension on the leash to yank her back quickly . Pogo just can't help herself and just has to say hello to every living thing on the planet lol . She never barked at the swan or the ducks . She is a very curious dog and loves kids , huge dogs and people .
we used to have 6 chinese brown geese (also known as swan geese)
those clowns were very very aggressive if they were not used to you.
on the up side, when we had them, we never had to cut the grass! they worked their way systematically through the yard and kept the grass at a nice tidy height.
whenever a car or a stranger came in the driveway or even someone fishing down by the river, they would start 'barking' very loudly
they cannot be trained to not bark wither like a dog can
their eggs were pretty tasty as well, but they only lay in the spring
this 'guard dog/alert' feature of domestic geese is even famed for 'saving' young Rome
the romans were attacked by the cisalpine gauls in the 6th century BC. the romans retreated to one of the heights in rome. geese they brought with them alerted the defenders to the gauls' warriors scaling the cliffs to get to the hilltop in the middle of the night
Geese= several thousand, Gauls = zero
