Committee Conversations: The Geese Take The Stand

This afternoon the June 23rd Committee held their first public conversation back near the tree stump behind the barn. A number of animals on the farmyard attended and I was surprised to even see a chicken there and that chicken was Sally, the one who had found Rex. I noticed Sally had gone to some lengths to wash the red stain out of her as well as there was no trace of Barry's paw print on her little head.

I will not jump to conclusions yet but I think the fact that Sally was there is very important and so I am noting it to you now.

The geese were very shaken during their testimony and Greta, who was taking the lead on the questioning, also had a shake in her voice that those of us who have spoken with her a lot recently noticed but maybe the audience of animals did not.

Here is what the Committee learned:

- the geese had been sleeping and the first to wake had been a goose called Horace and he had yelled to wake the others because he had heard a rustling in the grass near where they lay

- there had been at least two foxes spotted at the same time

- the foxes were too quick and they had killed six of the smaller geese, including three goslings, in just a matter of minutes, long before the lights in the farmhouse had come on

- the foxes had disappeared and had not come back and the geese remaining were trying to help the wounded geese, not knowing that they had already died, while Horace kept a lookout for the foxes return

So the attack seemed to start with the geese and move inward into the farmyard. There were a lot of tears throughout the testimony as it was very hard to tell the story and to hear it and even though the Committee was also going to question other animals today they decided that they needed to take a break and let everything the geese had said sink in before moving forward and I think that was a very good idea on the part of the Committee.