Goose prefers to hang out with herd of goats

[June 25, 2008]  HEREFORD, Texas (AP) -- A goose making its home at the Hereford wastewater treatment plant isn't quite getting the "birds of a feather flock together" idea. It's hanging out with a herd of goats.

The goose, abandoned two years ago, doesn't seem to want to leave the herd.

"Just as soon as he came here he started running around with them," Gilde Flores, the plant supervisor, said in a story for The Hereford Brand.

Workers have tried to put the goose out on the ponds with other waterfowl, but it hasn't worked, and the goose just keeps going back to the goats.

The goose eats what the goats eat and won't even try to swim or fly.

[Associated Press]

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