They were four, then they became three and then they became two and sadly it became one and the inevitability was staring on our faces for months before the inevitable became a reality. This is the sad story of four beautiful geese in my compound.
Its exactly three years from the day I had my first encounter with these beautiful creatures and it's sad to to say that they no longer exist on the planet of the earth 🌎 no more.
I could still remember the day I first saw the four of them and the first thing that came to my mind was to pull out my phone and take pictures of them even going to the extent of making a video also. Sadly, three years gone and they are no more. Sadly they died or got lost one after the other leaving one behind that also was killed for meat purpose. The main reason for acquiring them according to he owner was to beautiful the environment but the death/disappearance of three didn't help the continued existence of the last one.
After the first encounter I had with them where I took a picture of them I started to notice them as the day goes by. Looking at them from a naked eye you could barely notice and be able to differentiate between the four but I was determined to know them by any slight difference and get to know them individually.
Day by day I was determined to get to find underlying differences between the four of them. There are days where ill just decide to spend my leisure time just observing them. I took me up till the fifth week before I got to be able to pick one out of the four and I immediately named it NOISY
I named it NOISY because of one peculiar reason and it was the fact that it was the noisiest among the four. Usually they are all very noisy especially when they see someone getting too close to them. But I realized therewas one out of the four who was always the loudest among the four and it was always the first to begin the noise immediately they are been approached so i named it NOISY.
The next one I could pick out from the four was the one I called protector. The dirty thing I noticed about it is that it was very aggressive in the sense that once it sees people approaching and noisy starts making those sounds you see it immediately trying to attack whoever comes too close to them. At some point it can literally chase you if you are not so brave enough to stand your ground and this act of his would later lead to the demise of one of them, sad to say but that was the reality.
I named this one shy because it was always running away from people I like noisy and protector and it was my favorite in a way cux I myself am a shy person.
Then we have charming. Charming had this beautiful eyes and there is this way it walks that you'd think it is catwalking and it was funny at times but beautiful to watch.
Few months past and I was enjoying their company on days I wish to just immerse myself in nature and it's beauty and it seemed like a relationship that would last for a long time but slowly and one by one it was coming to an end
The first casualty was noisy. On a fateful Saturday morning I decided I was going to take my usual weekend walk around after a stressful week. I did some exercises and at the end I decided to have a view of the four and by the time I was approaching rhier usual spot I realized the noise was not as loud as it ised to be.I got to where they were and i noticed they were just three instead of the usual four. At this point my instincts was telling me it was noisy that was not part of the party. Then came the owner who told me that at the break of day they also noticed it was three of them and not four and that they have searched every where and couldn't find the last one. He was at this point sounding hopeless because according to him the four of them are always together which was something I also know after knowing them for some months now. So at this point they were down to three and as days past all hope of having noisy back was lost.
Then they were three
After the missing of noisy, the bond between three was as strong as ever. I noticed one thing though and I don't know if it is their normal behavior. After noisy went missing the other three kept on making this very loud noise like never before and this went on for days until they finally stopped and I was feeling like it was a form of mourning.
On the fourth of August 2022, another one went missing and this time it was protector and at this point the speculation was all over the place that they never went missing but instead were stolen.
Then they became two
We were still left with just the two and at this point a cage has been made to house them once in a while. But then tragedy struck on a particular day. There was this heavy rain and wind that happened and on that day the geese were not in their cage.
On the morning after the rain 🌧️ we discovered one of the geese floating inside a nearby pond already dead. It was quite devastating at this point.
Remember how I said the protectors constant attack led to he death of the last of them. Well due to the constant attack then it became something that people were afraid to go close to. So there was this man in the compound who was afraid of them the most and he as much as possible try to avoid coming in contact with them. So after a few months he approached the owner and bided for the geese that was left and he slaughtered it for meat.
And that is how we lost the four beautiful geese.
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