Dad replaces his daughter with a goose when she moves out — and does everything with him until he's big enough to find his own family ❤️
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00:00 My dad kind of like replaced me with a goose.
00:03 Haley is so jealous of the goose.
00:08 Look at Haley's face.
00:09 Look.
00:10 You look outside and they just be doing everything together.
00:14 People come over, he's like, my boy Danny.
00:17 Dalia, my daughter's here too.
00:19 He was more proud of the goose sometimes than me.
00:22 And they would cut the grass together.
00:26 He was with the goose all the time.
00:28 He's like walking around the backyard on the phone
00:30 and sees this little ball of fuzz.
00:32 Hello.
00:33 Hello.
00:34 [GOOSE BLEATING]
00:35 There was no family, no goose looking for him.
00:38 He was just all by himself and needed some help.
00:41 My dad was just so excited to have him, like a newborn baby.
00:44 Getting big.
00:45 You grow up so fast.
00:47 You do.
00:48 Me and my brother both moved out.
00:49 So having the goose to nurture and provide for
00:52 was kind of like he had a purpose.
00:55 What'd you make the goose?
00:57 Spiral staircase, look.
00:59 You know, he would come home and check on him.
01:02 He absolutely loved my dad.
01:03 Unconditionally, you knew that that goose
01:06 thought that was his dad.
01:09 They would swim in circles around each other.
01:12 The goose would follow him.
01:14 It was pretty weird to see how much he grew in just
01:17 a short amount of time.
01:20 As he got bigger, he would kind of put his head
01:22 out when the wind would catch them.
01:24 Come on, Danny.
01:25 Come on, Danny.
01:25 Come on, Danny.
01:26 My dad tried to, like, help him fly.
01:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:31 [GOOSE BLEATING]
01:35 You ready?
01:35 Come on.
01:36 Go, go, go, go, go.
01:37 Go, go, go, go, go.
01:38 Go.
01:39 Fly, fly, fly, fly.
01:40 And then there was a little storm that came through.
01:44 And it was just like running through the yard
01:46 and catching the wind in his wings.
01:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:51 He just kind of encouraged him to go find a family.
01:54 And he did.
01:54 One day, we woke up, and he was just gone.
01:57 My mom got on the jet ski.
01:58 She saw a family of geese that she thought was Danny.
02:02 There was a span of, like, a week
02:04 where he didn't come back at all.
02:05 And he came back to, like, say hey.
02:07 So look who came back today.
02:09 Hello, buddy.
02:10 Hello.
02:12 Hello.
02:13 Hello.
02:14 No other goose would come up to the yard like that.
02:16 My parents had a lot of fun.
02:18 They would play with the kids.
02:19 They would come up to the yard like that.
02:21 My parents are happy to have their son back for, like,
02:23 a day, even if it is just that short time.
02:27 I remember Danny looking at the river,
02:28 hearing, like, the geese honk, making sure
02:31 that they're not leaving him.
02:34 I felt like that was a sign that he's where he belongs.
02:36 He left after that.
02:37 We haven't seen him since.
02:38 Danny was just the happiest little goose.
02:40 He, like, lived the life he lived with us.
02:42 It made us happy to see him happy.
02:44 We did what we could, and he's with the geese
02:47 he belongs with.
02:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:52 [GEESE HONKING]
02:55 (upbeat music)
02:58 (chewing)