GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS — Green Mountain Falls’ beloved goose, Roy, will be laid to rest Thursday.
A burial service for the domesticated Chinese goose is at 11 a.m. Thursday on top of the hill overlooking the lake Roy once patrolled, caretaker Ann Pinell said.
He will be buried “next to his best friend” Rudy, an all-white goose who “taught Roy everything he knows,” she said.
The two were inseparable as they policed the other ducks and geese at the lake, paying special attention to the babies, Pinell said. When Rudy was killed by a car, Roy took over as top goose.
by two loose dogs. His death flustered the lake’s other 50 to 75 ducks and 30-plus geese, many of which left, Pinell said.
“Even though he was a male he was like a mother to the baby geese,” Pinell said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen now that Roy isn’t around to protect everyone.”
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