Neighbors and online fans work to reunite the unlikely animal friends.
"That goose," neighbor Wanda Holder told the News & Observer, "takes his long, long neck and rubs on that dog."
"We stopped to help the Canadian goose keep the bulldog out of the road ... and the goose got (angry)," wrote David Zapata in a Facebook post. "Started chasing everyone around and trying to bite anybody that got near the dog. You can't make this (stuff) up."