He is in the Philadelphia suburbs.

...or bullshit.

Up here too, now that I think about it.

And then we can conscript white collar convicts and banksters to clean up after the homeless, use their confiscated wealth to take care of the homeless, and the dogs, and the birds.

Right?

For labor, I was going to use any Cop who kills an unarmed "suspect" to pick up the geese shit with their hands for a year.

...and can be taught to do almost anything.

Haven't been able to break them of it.

I "work" mine by playing fetch with them. They will take a time out to shit when they want. I've never trained mine to shit on command, but that's not to say it couldn't be done.

In my case their job is to chase a ball. Actually one chases the ball and the other runs rings around the ball fetcher. Once or twice a day of this and they are calm once indoors.

Our local park has a ton of problems with goose poo. My kids have both done some slipping and sliding in it. Nasty.

Some we always seem to forget with wildlife.

Due to Human habitation, the cities provide plenty of food, shelter, and unfrozen water.
These geese have become non-migratory, and a huge problem.

I lived in Minneapolis/St Paul on the Mississippi River for a few years.
The "discharges" into the Mississippi River kept thawed pools so the geese had open, warm water, and thousands have decided to NOT migrate South during Winter anymore, but decided to stay at home in the hot tubs and scrounge Winter food from the town, which is plentiful.

They are called Resident Geese as opposed to Migratory Geese, and they are a big health problem along with other problems.

Deal with it in your own special way.

When I say that resident Canadian Geese populations are not native to Maryland...you can take that as determinate fact any way it butters your rump. It's something that was affirmed repeatedly by biologists and wildlife-management professionals in public hearings with fancy 4-color-print charts, statistics, reports, photographs, water-testing results, DNA testing of waterfowl and data...oh fuck-loads of data. They were even nice enough to tell us what the origin of the problem was...as I recounted to you.

They do deal with it: concrete ponds, poison traps, egg confiscation/destruction, let them get hit by traffic on University Blvd. W...it's really better if DC would do their part too.

Canadian Geese are not native to metro DC as a year-round roosting species, as they have become. In fact, as recently as when I was in college in the early 2000s, they weren't even common in the area. (As bvar called them, they have become resident geese)

They, along with ducks and swans, were imported to the area for "nice to look at" and "people like to watch them" value for artificial ponds (the ponds were conditions of land development approvals under "nature preservation" as the DelMarVA peninsula has few naturally-occurring ponds or lakes) in property developments. Unfortunately, DC/MD/NoVA also does not have substantial populations of their natural predators (wolves, feral dogs, coyotes, eagles, hawks, bobcats, foxes, crows, ravens, and magpies) which has caused them to become endemic. They are a cause of substantial water pollution which in parts of lower Maryland and DC has led to the widespread death of native fish, flora and fauna in the Potomac, Anacostia, Rock Creek and Sligo Creek watersheds. We're now having to build concrete ponds for the damned things because people can't stand the idea of them being killed and their feces are a nascent environmental disaster.

My only objection to this plan is that they're not exterminating the geese as an invasive destructive species. Yes, let's get them away from the reflecting pool...but let's also actively take steps to manage the waterfowl problem.

They have no natural predators, and they don't migrate, and they make an incredible mess.

They also walk into busy roads full of rush hour traffic, as they have no sense of the danger of automobiles speeding towards them at all. It is amazing that so few are hit. The local drivers do look out for them.

There is a similar problem with deer in the area, as they also have no natural predators anymore.

I would love to have a big, fat Canadian Honker for my Christmas Dinner.

Take as many as you like. Please.

Deal with it in your own special way.

not tabasco.

not just for crab boils anymore.

It doesn't hurt to remind geese wolves still exist, even in places where it's only dogs.

Twice a day to keep the geese away.

It's been used at the campuses of two large tech firms, on municipal golf courses and city parks.

yes INDEED

They are probably sending all their "bad geese" to the USA.

We should build a fence to protect our Northern border.

She was so tall she could hunt geese with a rake!

(Stolen from Big Bang)

for acid rain

I know people who've cut down trees because birds live in them and poop on their cars. I don't mind a less sterile and more natural environment myself; if my car or my deck suffers, that's ok. DC was a swampy wetland at one time.

We have several Meeses in training right now. Even a few in deep cover in Quebec.

Canada geese population is huge. They are everwhere. We live next to a 3,000 acre county park and there is a sizeable pond about 100 yards behind our house. We're lucky that there is a big area of native grasses (and weeds) between our backyard and the pond. The geese land on the water but they are wary of the tall grass because it can conceal predators. If the tall grass were not there, we would have goose crap everywhere.

A perfect task for a well-trained dog!

Didn't give them a second look. They, of course, were honking madly at the sight of him. But nada.

They are the worst. Biggest assholes of the animal kingdom.

True story.