Coaching geese as guards in Xinjiang

The Xinjiang provincial police decided to recruit a goose army to serve as guards with the aim of reducing crime in this most dangerous area of ​​China.

Xinjiang emerged as an area of ​​many violent incidents between Han and Uighur people, the Muslim group occupying half of this 22 million territory. The history of violence in Xinjiang has nothing to do with geese, but the police in the area hope that the presence of this new army will make criminals "run away".

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Xinjiang provincial police decided to recruit an army of geese to act as guards.

Most people envision a sight-seeing team of German shepherds, animals that can easily catch all criminals. But executive officials and paramilitary forces in China see danger from these four-legged "colleagues" . Xinjiang police found that the guard dogs were alarmingly poisoned. In China, criminals can throw poisons into the places of dogs and wait until they eat this poisonous food.

Instead, geese often do not tend to eat food thrown away near them, especially at night. The reason is simple, geese look very poor when it is dark but they have very sensitive hearing . In addition, unlike dogs who do guard duty alone, geese often go in groups to make it difficult for criminals to disable them.

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If a person walks too close to the goose, it is likely that he will suffer a very violent attack from them.

Even when alone, geese are an amazing animal.If a person walks too close to the goose, it is likely that he will suffer a very violent attack from them. Imagine an aggressive goose with strong flapping wings, head leaning back, sharp beaks constantly pecking forward and going to a bunch of people attacked kilometers.

The recent incident in Sa Loan district has shown the value of the goose army . Officials arrested a man trying to break into a local police station during the night. After removing two police dogs and climbing over the fence, the thief was still one block away from the motorbike he intended to steal by 20 geese. This army emitted a series of high-pitched cries that made police officers wake up and catch the thief.