Chicago Park District plans to manage Canada geese

[IRescue452]

On campus we are having a major problem, 200 geese on a 50 foot pond. We had a border collie to chase them but we don't anymore. This sounds like a good idea if they weren't so aggressive.

[Freedom]

Why can't they use the geese to feed the poor? Rather than "just gassing them," and a waste of animal life.

[Lady's Human]

Ever have wild goose?

When Geese overrun an area they destroy it. We had about 50 geese decide the small pond on our property was a good place to spend the summer. The goose droppings and the damage they did to the plants made them a HUGE irritant. Thankfully Lady managed to convince them NOT to come back.

[sparks19]

Why can't they use the geese to feed the poor? Rather than "just gassing them," and a waste of animal life.

That's an interesting idea.... I mean if hunters do it with their extra deer tags why not use geese for the same thing

Lady's Human, that is why they started allowing hunting on Cormorants. they are killing all kinds of plant life... not just because of their trampling but also because their poop is so acidic it just kills everything. they are also heavily depleting fish supply. I don't know if THAT is a problem with geese but sometimes population control is nessecary.

[king2005]

You want to see over population, go to Ottawa.. there are MILLIONS & MILLIONS & MILLIONS of them!! In Kanata when the fields are plowed or in early spring before the crop is started, the fields are FULL of geese...

I'm in full support of controlling the population with the distroying of the eggs. The reason the eggs cannot be removed, is because the geese will mate & will lay more, to replace the ones that went missing. So the only way to keep them from mating & laying new eggs, is to kill the egg & allow the parents to sit on the dead eggs.

i'm NOT in favor of killing the adults or already hatched geese, only because the population can be controlled another way, without harming a living creature (newly layed eggs have no nervous system, so it cannot feel any pain, or anything.. it just wont grow into something that can feel.

I AM in favor of hunting the adults for FOOD, not a cull.