Goose in Virginia has neighbors 'flocking' to see her

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - When Dana Freed and Dominick DiColandrea moved into their location past twelvemonth from New York, they kept getting the aforesaid question from neighbors.

"Are you going to formal the goose? Do you person the costumes?" Freed recounted.

The bizarre questions abruptly made consciousness erstwhile they remembered a find they'd made portion moving in.

"We recovered a container of costumes successful the closet, which we primitively thought were small costumes for a puppy oregon dog," said DiColandrea.

It turns retired the archetypal owners started the contented backmost successful the 70s, dressing up the chromatic goose that sits connected apical of the mailbox successful beforehand of their location connected Stratford Chase Drive.

It was a contented neighbour grew to love, truthful Freed and DiColandrea decided to instrumentality it to a caller level, acknowledgment to costuming skills Freed picked up portion helping with her daughter's precocious schoolhouse theatre productions successful New York.

"It’s go a batch of amusive for us. We bask it," said DiColandrea.

They travel up with ideas and enactment unneurotic to find what they request astatine thrift stores. Her existent look is Elsa from the movie Frozen, but she's had 15 - 20 antithetic outfits implicit the past year.

"My favourite was for the day of Woodstock, and we dressed her up arsenic a hippie," said Freed.

What started with a container of costumes has turned into an full closet of goose garb with a wintertime coat, rainfall jacket, dresses, and different items. No substance the play oregon weather, she's ne'er without an outfit.

"We consciousness truly atrocious erstwhile she's naked," laughed Freed.

It's a labour of emotion that the neighbors person noticed. "We've really gotten emotion letters. Well, she's gotten emotion letters," said Freed. "I've gotten cards from radical saying, 'it brightens up my time truthful overmuch erstwhile I travel by.'"

One neighbour adjacent sends pictures of the goose to a household successful Colombia.

"She's got planetary fame now," said DiColandrea.

As for what comes adjacent for Halloween, Freed said, "We are keeping that a secret."

You'll person to duck backmost by aboriginal to see.

Erica Greenway astatine WTKR archetypal reported this story.