“When I saved Kyle I thought when she was big enough to fly she would fly away,” Jivanjee told The Dodo. “Once she started flying she would always return at the end of the day. At about a year of age I drove her in my car about five miles away and released her. When I got back home she was already there hanging out on the boat.”
What else can you do in such a situation?
Jivanjee doesn’t keep her locked inside like a pet – she lives like a wild animal during the days and finds her own food.
But she always has a place to come home to at night to hang out with her bestie.
They watch TV together and even take trips to Starbucks in the car.
The two will even run errands together on foot and Kyle is happy to follow her human around town!
Of course, she still never misses the chance to join him on the lake:
“When I am out on the lake she finds me every time,” Jivanjee said. “There’s no escaping her. Turns out geese have, like, built-in GPS that’s better than your iPhone.”
Kyle’s story quickly became news in the small town and then her fame grew wider as she got her own Instagram account. People are invested in her sweet story and love following her adventures.
Jivanjee gets some major props for caring for the creature, especially since geese have a lifespan of 10-25 years (at least in the wild)!
When local news channel KPTV caught up with the duo in July of 2019, Kyle had given birth to 4 of her own goslings in the intervening years – Jack, Bravo, Delta, and Echo.
Jivanjee hangs out with them too.
Jack was part of Kyle’s first brood. He had a sibling but, in a pretty common turn of events, the baby got eaten by a bass while learning to swim out on the lake not long after it was born.
Now Jack is a proud big brother to the triplets.
And, yes, it is illegal to own geese, but Jivanjee has never claimed to own Kyle or her children. They come and go as they please – they just never go very far.
The whole lakeside community knows them well now and they’re used to interacting with humans (although that doesn’t stop them from stealing wallets and keys and occasionally dropping them into the lake for fun – they’re still wild animals after all).
While it has no doubt been a wild ride, big changes can be a good thing. Jivanjee has a life to live as well and he’s been spending time in Hawaii with a possible permanent move there on the horizon.
But he’s not worried about the safety of the geese.
“They’re wild, they have a lot of support on the lake, and they’ve been well-trained,” he said.
He continuously gets reports from his neighbors that the entire family is doing well.
Be sure to scroll down to see a video of Kyle and her rescuer and hear more about this sweet story.
