The Goose Guy

By Thomas 9/7/07

One day while we were driving to Hirschfield's, we saw this guy standing by his truck full of decoys of geese. And he had a knife in his hand. We were wondering what he was doing. So we stopped by and asked him what he was doing. He said he was plucking geese that he had shot that morning in Medina.

I was interested to find out how heavy they were. He told us they weighed 8-20 lbs. I got to hold one. It was really heavy.

We asked him how many he had. He said he had five. His friend got four. We asked him what kind of gun he used. He used a shot gun. I didn’t now that you don’t shoot geese on the ground. You shoot them in the air.

He said that where he shot them, kids were getting on the bus nearby and there were $1 million dollar homes nearby. I thought that was interesting that you could shoot geese right there.

He also told us that a goose had fought his dog the other day, and the goose was beating the dog up so the dog didn’t want to hunt at all that day because he got beat up. It surprised me that a goose could beat up a 130 pound dog! I wonder what our dog Simon would do?

The dog was also trying to carry the geese but they were too heavy.