{"id":85413,"date":"2026-08-12T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85413"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:34:42","slug":"heroic-4-month-old-goose-alerts-texas-family-to-overnight-barn-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/heroic-4-month-old-goose-alerts-texas-family-to-overnight-barn-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic 4-Month-Old Goose Alerts Texas Family To Overnight Barn Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/goose-named-goosey-family-since-137143383.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A small, fuzzy goose, named Goosey, being held in someone's arms.\" width=\"272\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An intrepid young goose woke up his owners overnight when he noticed their barn was on fire \u2014 saving the structure and the animals inside.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-month-old bird aptly named Goosey had only been with the Gerber family since Mother\u2019s Day and usually keeps to himself \u2014 but last Tuesday he sprung into action,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/goose-fort-bend-county-fire\/285-bac26c47-a347-4609-a6ee-305a5b2bfa88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KHOU 11<\/a> reported.\u00a0Owner Bert Gerber had fallen asleep on the couch in the middle of the night when Goosey let out several startling honks that the family had never heard before.\u00a0To his owner\u2019s surprise, Goosey was sounding the alarm as a barn full of animals on the family\u2019s Fort Bend County property was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): An intrepid young goose woke up his owners overnight when he noticed their barn was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85414,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85413\/revisions\/85414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}