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My goose is a domestic breed. For anyone wanting a free wild goose, go to those places mentioned by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace, put some corn inside one of those very large "have a heart traps". In about ten minutes you should have your goose. You might even have a few because they fight to get at the feed.

My kids get a kick out of me when I say we should be trapping the geese and delivering them to the local food shelters to feed the homeless. They know I'm onto something. :-) My son once rode his bike home from gymnastics practice past one of these ponds and was amazingly chased several yards by a honking goose. The geese around here just keep breeding and breeding and breeding. Every spring, there are new goslings following around their mommies. The only effective way I've seen them be discouraged from hanging around the ponds and leading their cushy lives :-) is by importing a pair of swans (natural enemies of the geese) or putting up reeds, rushes, grasses, cattails, etc. around the ponds, which apparently the geese are scared of, since those grasses hide their natural enemies :-).