This is the true story of Gene Flem the goose. Gene Fleming was an inventor and the owner of a farm equipment company near Hastings Nebraska, in the United States. "I built a little pond in my back yard, and my sister-in-law Donna Mae Schuck, who raises ducks and geese, asked me if wanted some ducks for it," I Fleming explained "When I picked up the ducks, I noticed a goose that could not walk, hobbling in the have any feet." Because the 2-year-old gray goose named Andy had hatched with only stumps for legs and no feet, he could not walk or swim like others. Fleming was moved by the plight of the unlucky but spirited bird.