The geese hunt at Indian Lake Park has drawn criticism. Your opinion?
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I oppose the hunt and hope everyone involved can find a non-lethal solution that works.
21% (19 votes)
I think too much is being made of this.
59% (53 votes)
It seems like nothing is working -- not the hunt or the non-lethal methods the township has tried. Anybody have other ideas?
7% (6 votes)
Let the geese be if they're not going away.
9% (8 votes)
I have more to say and will post a comment to share.
4% (4 votes)
Total votes: 90
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The geese stay because people feed them. The people feeding them are probably the same ones who do not want them to be poisoned or shot. However, there is a reason for the saying, "loose as a goose." They make a huge mess. And that spoils the park for everyone. I would not take my kids or grandkids to play in a park that was covered in goose poop. Geese are supposed to migrate. But when they find a place like this, it disturbs the migratory pattern. You must control the goose population any way possible. Unfortunately, the hunters did not kill as many as we hoped. Multiple shooting events will have to be held to get the population under control. And we will have to seriously fine people who feed them.
s bone, like it or not, the Geese have just as much right to live as you do. To even suggest the Geese be killed is selfish, self-centered and arrogant. Grow up!!
Mankind was given dominion over the beasts and fowl of the earth by our creator. If the geese migrated as they are supposed to, natural predators would keep their numbers in check: Foxes and wolves eat geese and their eggs in the wild. People have messed up that system by feeding the geese, and they stay here instead of migrating. As a result, the population grows out of control. Eventually, they will destroy the habitat of the other animals living there! Humans do have a right, and some times a responsibility, to kill animals.
I fail to see how suggesting the killing of geese is selfish, self-centered, or arrogant. s bone has the right to think that, and I have a right to agree with them.
Christmas has come and gone, but maybe next year those who are less fortunate can go to their local food bank and get a nice Christmas goose courtesy of North Huntingdon Twp.
I was going to vote that too much was being made of this, but wanted to post a comment. So here goes.
The hunt is the way to do this right, but coordinate it. Get a local gun or hunting club to handle the hunt. Close the park to the public for a few weeks. Go as a group and coordinate the firing of guns to all at the same time. When the remaining geese fly away, use that time to gather up the dead and send them for processing for the food bank. As the geese return, and they will, set up for another group shot and repeat the process. I can hear the opposition out there crying mass killing, how cruel. However if the geese are as intelligent as some are claiming. After a few days of fly away at gun shots then return to a smaller population and repeat over and over. Maybe their intelligence will tell them to go somewhere else or die.
Some of you that are so against this probably don't even use the park. I used to walk there, but got tired of the goose poop all over and even the agressive nature of the geese when you would walk near them. They tend to hiss at you like a cat does if they think you are threatening them and will even charge you if they think you are too close.