The porch goose is back, and in Nova Scotia, it is selling fast.

Petunia sits on the front step of Alla Turgeon’s home in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, wearing a sun hat and a gardening outfit. Turgeon brought the concrete figure home more than a year ago.

“She doesn’t leave for the Canadian winter. She stays here year-round,” Turgeon joked.

Petunia and other porch geese are showing up at homes across the province after an online spike in popularity helped revive the lawn decor item from the 1980s.

“She’s kinda had a resurrection,” said Veronica Ribble, district manager at Wheaton’s in Lower Sackville, where the geese are sold under the name Giddy. “People have kind of come back to Giddy.”

Retailers say demand has been intense. The life-size figures, made from materials including concrete, plastic and metal, have been selling out at stores that recently started stocking them.

“They’ve only been here since yesterday and they’re already gone,” said Heather Going of Taylor Timber Mart in Musquodoboit Harbour. “We have another 40 on order, a new flock coming in in 2½ weeks. I may have to order another one after that.”

Going said customers have been calling and sending text messages asking for geese, and the store has created a waiting list. Ribble said Wheaton’s has also started a waitlist.

“I think we plowed through about 300 within a couple of days. And then we actually had two separate large orders over 500. We’re well over about 1,500,” Ribble said.

The demand is not limited to the geese themselves. Stores are also selling outfits for them.

“People are enjoying them. It’s been a long, draggy winter. They’re buying sundresses for them. I shouldn’t laugh, but they are,” Going said.

At Wheaton’s, a display at the front of the store includes a cowboy outfit that one customer from Middle Sackville bought for her porch goose, Bill.

“I guess as millennials, we just like things that bring us back to a simpler time. The world was a little less scary when their yards were filled with the trinkets and concrete animals,” said Mallori Onderwater.

Turgeon said she is still adding to Petunia’s wardrobe.

“Something fun never hurt, never hurt your neighbourhood to have a little whimsy, a little character, a little joie de vivre,” she said.

The craze has also given Going a new nickname at work.

“All I’ve been dealing with for five days now is geese. And for the next five days, it’ll be geese. So yes, I’m Mother Goose.”

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