Interspecies friendship in animals is not uncommon. Animals assess each other differently than humans, they do not care about details, they perceive another living being as a whole as it is. And so there is nothing surprising in the incredible friendship between the goose and the Samoyed dog.
The dog immediately took it as a friendly bird and began to play with it. As time passed, the friendship only grew stronger: the dog and the goose became more and more attached to each other.
When the dog had puppies, the goose took them as her own children. Interestingly, they also saw the goose as a kind of nurse – the pups often lay down to sleep around her.
Although they were not her children, the goose saw them as babies in need of care and tried to take care of them in her own way. The mother goose accepted her friend’s help and willingly trusted her to take care of her restless cubs.
Later the goose became a mother, too, and her chicks were not afraid of the big dog from birth, eagerly playing with her.They live as one big family, and do everything together.
But what is especially interesting is that in the same house there is another dog – a poodle. But he keeps apart and does not participate in the life of the Samoyed and the goose and their children. It turns out that animals choose their friends based on some special criteria.
So far, scientists cannot explain how exactly this happens and why the samoyed plays with the goose and the poodle avoids her.