Goose levels golfer, reasserting dominance over all humankind

[ThatOwlWoman]

she hears me walking up to the door and begins screeching.
I have to greet her and say hi before she calms down
I have been trying for years to get her to say "get me a beer"
She kinda mumbled it once

Bless her heart, and yours too.

This is my 'too buddy. He was the pampered companion of a teen boy who grew up and didn't want him anymore because Tooie (dumb name, I know, I didn't give it to him!) hated his fiancee and bit her. Unfortunately the emotional trauma of being given away caused him to butcher his feathers and constantly scream the boy's name and his own, over and over and over. You could hear him over a quarter mile away. You can imagine the joy of our neighbors. lol He spent three years with us, then in despair I surrendered him to a cockatoo sanctuary in Washington. There he lives happily in a huge outdoor aviary with a dozen other males of his kind, singing the songs of their people and playing in trees and in the rain. The sanctuary founder sends me a yearly update. Tooie is in his mid-20s now, and hopefully will live into his 70s or beyond. Beautiful, wonderful creatures they are, but they do not make the best human companions because of their needs for their own people. He is a Mollucan cockatoo.



And here's the poem I wrote for him.

You came into my life one day,
Flaunting your beautiful fairy feathers.
Each one an eloquent silent word
as you try to tell me things I cannot understand.
Could you be saying "Hey stupid, my water is filthy"?
I love your eyes, so dark and fathomless,
Ancient and wise, circled by dark blue rings,
That match the bruises you gave me.
Gossamer feathers that display your moods,
and hide your beak from the foolish!
O, the gnarled and wrinkled claws,
harkening of your ancestry, and clinging to
my fleeing back – you can jump, I see now.
Woodwork comes and goes, scabs fall off.
But fingers forever remember the softness
of salmon, peach and ivory.

[Cancel 2018.2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cockatoo

I believe shes a white cockatoo

Racist!

[PoliTalker]

Far too many people have no idea what they are getting into when they get a parrot. The birds bond for life but outlive humans. This frequently means the bird goes to a new owner and has difficulty adjusting.

It should be illegal to keep long living birds as pets. It is cruel for humans to take advantage of their tendency to bond young in order to make them pets. The end result is often a depressed bird with no way to fix it.

[SmarterthanYou]

Because Drivers cost way too much

[Dirt McGirt]

(CNN)Geese are terrifying. Everyone knows this. Their bites hurt like hell and they have no respect for children or the elderly. In fact, they are the second-most terrifying bird behind turkeys (large, tenacious) and ahead of crows (eidetic, vengeful).

So this momentous trio of photographs showing a Canada goose absolutely trucking a high school golfer near Blissfield, Michigan, is just a reminder of the natural order of things. You can have, as one Twitter user put it, a "quiver full of bird maulers" and a whole high school athlete's worth of physical power, but the goose is going to win every time. It's science.

The unlucky human sacrifice here is Isaac Couling, a member of the Concord High School golf team. According to Blissfield Golf Coach Steve Babbitt, Couling, 16, was competing in the Madison Tournament at the World Creek Golf Course in Adrian, Michigan, when terror rained down.
"The group just finished teeing off on hole #7 and were walking down the fairway," Babbitt told CNN in an email. "They were aware of a goose nest on their left which they were looking at but not bothering when from behind them and to the right came the guard goose (protecting the nest)."





Humans need to learn their place in the world ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/24/us/go...rnd/index.html

That's awesome! Nothing better than seeing the second biggest nuisance on a golf course take out the biggest.

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Should have taken a driver and gone all John Daly on
It’s ass

[cancel2 2022]

Racist!

She is a white cock too!!

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