Elusive goose pierced by arrow caught in Kelowna

[chicot60]

KELOWNA -- A goose with an arrow lodged in its body has been discovered and caught at a residence in Kelowna.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/4465709.binAn elusive goose with an arrow stuck in its body was discovered Friday in Kelowna.


SPCA staff was on hand to rescue and treat the animal.


The bird was first seen last Friday in an area near Pritchard Drive by Okanagan Lake.


A resident tried to capture the goose but was unsuccessful.


Read more:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Elusive+goose+pierced+arrow+caught+Kelowna/4465815/story.html#ixzz1GzFXSKIz

[StanW]

... hmmm - I wonder if it pulls to starboard in flight .lol

[KIDWCKED]

... hmmm - I wonder if it pulls to starboard in flight .lol

Hmmm i wonder if thats Stans arrow??:D

[StanW]

... would've been between the 2 eyes ;)

[chicot60]

... hmmm - I wonder if it pulls to starboard in flight .lol
Why not straight as an arrow.

[KIDWCKED]

Why not straight as an arrow.

I think the fletch might perhaps cause a co-efficient drag??

[chicot60]

Volunteers with the Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center of Denver caught the bird just before 11 a.m. at the lake at Garland Park in Denver.

Goose catcher Scott Coddington of Colorado Springs said he nabbed the bird with a string foot snare.

"It looks to be OK," he said.

The bird rescuers gave the male goose antibiotics and cut the arrow off at the ends.

The goose was treated by Dr. Jerry LaBonde, a veterinarian who specializes in birds at Homestead Animal Hospital.

"He is doing great," LaBonde said after the surgery to remove the arrow.

The hospital plans to hold on to the goose for a day or two as a

Volunteer Gabrielle Wimers strokes a goose with an arrow through its chest before the vet removed it. (Lyn Alweis, The Denver Post)"precautionary measure" and to make sure the bird has a few good meals before taking flight.

Volunteer Gabrielle Wimers said people have been concerned about the goose for a long while and never gave up on helping it.

"We have been following (the goose) since Washington Park," she said. It "flew off from Washington Park to Garland Park and has been here ever since."

She said that after the goose is treated and deemed healed, it will be released into the wild.

"He is a very smart goose," she said. "He outsmarted everybody for a month."

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2011/0317/20110317__goose_image~p1_300.jpgVolunteer Gabrielle Wimers strokes a goose with an arrow through its chest before the vet removed it.

[StanW]

... one has to wonder if all these geese appearing all of a sudden sprouting arrows is some kind on new avian chicken disease ... :noidea:

.....about time we stopped importing evedrything from china :)

[Pollypurabred]

I believe Cupid had a little too much of that green stuff on Paddy's day and thought he/she was playing darts.