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A couple (as in male and female) lived next to a bus stop I had to use for a while, I had to fight the male off a few times, my goal was never to hurt it, a few swings with a heavy bag filled with books and it wouldn't insist. I don't know if it's bullying but I didn't see it as gratuitous violence, I also wouldn't welcome large animals in my homeβ¦
I'm pretty sure that 'heavy bags filled with books' is a backpack for school, but I think it's funny to imagine you also carrying a burlap sack with anti-goose novels specifically to ward off this creature.
Yeah. I feel like city-type humans have gotten too amenable to getting bullied by animals in their environment, and it's teaching bad lessons. You notice that the geese don't do the whole "fuck you I chase you hissing" thing if there is a dog anywhere even vaguely in the vicinity of the human, because it knows exactly what the score will wind up at with the dog involved.
I do get it, nobody wants to be the guy that messed up the happy family because they got a little territorial. It sounds like you struck the right balance.