Ina, this is one way I'm a bad mother...

I'm afraid you have to be reported to CPS.

Oh dear... what in the world will become of ME?!?! I exposed my own son to similar dangers at the tender age of TWO! For SHAME!

Ina's got those people on speed dial, y'know... you're in trouble now!

(I have similar pics - somewhere - of my kids wandering among a bunch of geese that were as big as they were too ... but don't tell Ina)

Thrillseekers, all.

laughing - well, I saw a kid wearing a helmut riding a bike with training wheels - huh??? lol...maybe that's what is wrong with me - I fell off my bike too many times...Salud.

Great pictures though - very cute. Salud.

Great pictures!!!

Yup. Speed dial.

I remember taking my kids to a local duck pond many years ago. We had one of those gigundo bags of popcorn and began tossing handfuls out to the ducks. Then the ducks got closer. And closer. I jumped on top of a picnic table and began screaming. The kids looked at me like I was crazy.

OK. Maybe I was. They kept tossing the popcorn out by the handful, while I was screaming at them to just "THROW THE WHOLE DAMN BAG OUT!!"

I was totally traumatized. I don't know how my kids escaped unscathed.

"They shoot pigeons don't they?"

Those geese can really bite hard!!!
Did any of them get her?

LOl Ina. Geese and Ducks can be mean--but beware-- not as mean as parents at a city sponsored easter egg hunt.

E.M. (May I call you E.?) I don't fear parents at a city sponsored Easter egg hunt. Perhaps at a youth sporting event, but the Easter egg hunters leave me calm, compared to spending time with unleashed birds.

Yes. Unleashed birds. Birds should be leashed. Before being killed.

You want emotionally scarred kids? There was a time I was changing a son's diaper when suddenly a spider raced up from under the cushion on the changing table and crawled right up onto my baby's face.

What the heck was I to do? I certainly wasn't going to hit my baby in the face! What's worse, though, was that apparently it tickled, so the baby started laughing and giggling, while I'm standing there shrieking with frustration and fear... aughh!

I used a dry washcloth to "encourage" the spider to relocate. Then I smashed him so flat they had to invent a new dimension for his molecules.

Either my baby escaped unscathed, or they all suffered some similar trauma because I can no longer remember which of them was the victim here.

Eh -- I smashed the spider. Just want to clarify.

I hate geese. I hate birds in general. They smell bad and they're ugly. I can handle them at a distance, but a day with loud, annoying, honking geese is most likely going to give me a migraine. I don't like pet birds in cages, either. Is it obvious a goose bit me as a child? Ugh, to birds, I agree with Ina.

too funny, Dannielle.... though I kinda got that from the "baby escaped unscathed" bit

Dannielle, I laughed too hard at this. I could see me kind of doing this if a bird came near my baby.

No, to be honest, I would have jumped up and down in the vicinity of the changing table, screaming. I would have yelled for help.

I would have scarred my child for life.

I promise, I did all of those things. Baby Boy had to be wondering what my problem was, with all the fuss I was making, and he never associated it with the tickle on his face.

I'm appalled. Thank heaven someone has already contacted the authorities.

Danger looks good on your daughter. She is beautiful.

When I was really young and we lived in the country the neighbor lady gave my Mom some African geese. They hated me! I was supposed to go through their yard to get to the henhouse that was through another gate, and they would take out after me, honking and nipping at my red rubber boots, which were worn only with underpants and a cowboy hat in summer. I still, to this day, am terrified of geese. They sense it, too.

Afraid birds don't really scare me. But I would have been freaked by the spider in Dannielle's story. I would have, I think, flicked the spider away and then freaked, but spiders frighten me so I can't be sure.

My daughter, when she was 1-2 years old, was once attacked by a cat, though, unprovoked. My ex was cat-sitting for a friend and he wanted to take our daughter to meet this very affectionate cat he was watching. The cat began rubbing up against my daughter, who tried to move away since the cat was almost knocking her down. All at once, the cat came after her, all for claws and teeth - unprovoked. I never saw anything like it. I didn't think, I just snatched my daughter up and held her over my head. The cat was trying so hard to come after her, it tried to climb me.

I just hauled it out of there, past my then-husband who was still staring, open-mouthed in shock. Never seen anything like it, before or since. Steph's been around cats all her life and never had a problem before or since.

OMG! Is that Tallahassee? Those geese do bite, but they're not as bad as sea gulls at least.

Ina will undoubtedly have nightmares after viewing these photos!!

I could feel Ina cringing as I looked at the pictures. I guess this for her would be like walking through a park full of snakes for me. Hard to see the similarities isn't it?

I am (as I mentioned in Ina's article,) drunk Gathering. {my God! There are a lot of keys in front of me. Thank Charles for backspace.)

Dannielle -- thank you for not hitting your small child. WHo's article is this? Andrea? Adorable child. Geese bad.

The guy in pants is amazing.

Pants ™ rock.

[Did I get that done right?]

What is it with people and birds?!?!

Don't you people understand how scary these beasts are?!?!?! I'm glad Lexie didn't get her eyes pecked out.

The thought of Taking your Kids to feed the birds is always a fun thought, Untill you get there...

Wait, I have some picture of little kids and swans somewhere.... That should be worth a call to CPS too. Those things might be all romantic when they're dying for love in ballets and stuff, but in RL they're vicious snapping machines.

So you don't like birds, huh Ina?

I had some cool comment or another, but I forgot it when I crawled into the corner after reading Dannielle's story. It'll come back later, I'm sure...

Ha, I'm safe from incriminating pictures. I don't let my children outside - no wait, did I admit that?

I posted my swan picture, and I already have one testimonial to the vicious nature of those diabolical creatures.

I'm going to report you to DFS----------------duck family support.

By the way------your daughter is a little cutie! Looks like she had a blast!