I don’t really know why, but we’ve never taken Duchess down to the duck pond (which has geese as well as ducks). We’ve walked by it a zillion times on walks, but have never actually taken her there to get up close and personal with those nasty little suckers. They have it fenced off… presumably to protect the little hissing, bad attitude birds, but I think it’s really so they don’t come bite the noses off curious dogs and fingers off of rosy cheeked toddlers.
They really are despicable little things. They run around honking and squawking and hissing like you’re there to wreak havoc on their little slice of heaven. I mean come on, how dare us bring foodables for them to eat so that they don’t have to forage for it? The audacity of us humans.
Come to think of it, now I remember why I haven’t taken Duchess there until now.
Anyway, the Vampire Wife had some old bread the other day she wanted to go give to the grouchy hobo geese, so we grabbed the dogs and headed out the door. I don’t think you can hear it on the video, but there was one particularly nasty goose that was hissing at us as we were walking along. Duchess was quite disturbed. You can see her stopping and looking back at me periodically to make sure I was hearing the maximum rudeness of the stupid honker.
And here the dogs are wondering why The Boy is throwing away perfectly good foodables to such ungrateful hobo birds.
You might be wondering where the little one is during all this? Oliver the Anti-Social is, of course, hiding under my legs wanting to go back home so he can go back to sitting under an end table and staring at the wall. Weirdo.
After The Boy threw about three loaves of bread out in about 20 seconds (he was more fascinated with the fish in the pond and was trying to create a monster swarm of fish by throwing out a bunch at once) we were ready to come back home… but not until Duchess gave the hobo birds a dirty stare (I don’t know why there are no birds in this picture).
We’ll have to go back again soon so that I can take some pictures of the noisy little urchins (and the fish swarms… those are pretty freaky). It’s starting to get pretty hot and we are the exact opposite of warm weather people, so don’t keep your paws crossed.
BOO Birds! I don’t like them either Duchess.
woof – Tucker
Hi Duchess! We found your blog through Darwin’s blog. And woo-wee! You are beewootiful! Waldo is in love. We would love to follow more of your adventures!
Wuv,
Gus and Waldo
the fish swarms are freaky and disgusting. *shudder*