Thursday, October 10, 2013
Couple say Gladys the nappy-wearing goose makes great house pet
Many people have unusual pets, but the Westcott family of Layton, Utah,
have a pet goose named Gladys. Kevin and Diane Westcott say geese make
great pets. “We started keeping geese back in 2003, and with our first
set of geese that we got, one of the goslings started to go lame on us,
and we had never kept geese before, so we started doing some research
and we found this website for the Goose Mother,” Diane said.
“And on there she said that geese made great pets and how she had
developed a diaper harness for them and everything else, and I thought,
‘wow that would be so much fun to have a house goose.’” “And I said,
‘No,’” Kevin said. But four years later, the family had a house goose.
“I went outside, I picked up the cutest little gosling that I could find
running next to my feet and brought her in the house and said, ‘I hope
you’re a girl’ and Gladys became part of the family,” Diane said.
The family had four cats and a large dog in the house, but Diane says
the goose got along with the dog very well. “They were inseparable,” she
said. “They used to sleep together. They would argue like brother and
sister. If she was chewing on something, she would bark to get our
attention and we’d have to come in.” Diane says they’ve grown close to
Gladys. “She sleeps on the bed with us at night,” she said.
“She has complete conversations with Kevin. He’s the only one that can
really get her to start jabbering away.” The couple say Gladys makes
herself at home. “She just kind of wanders around the house and plops
down where she wants,” Diane said. “It’s more the attitude of a cat
where it’s on their terms.” The couple say Gladys wears a diaper, as it’s not possible to potty train a goose. They say they take Gladys with them to most places, even shopping and camping.
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