Goose population drops 75 percent in Seattle parks (In lib vs lib, PETA goose is cooked)

Seattle Times ^ | 6/4/03 | Emily Heffter

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sheesh, haven't the animal whacko's ever heard of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'?

[Diddle E. Squat]

For the past three years, activists have staked out area parks, keeping watch in shifts for game agents. If the agents appear, the activists shoo the birds into the water, where they are not allowed to be captured.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Federal wildlife agents have destroyed more than 5,600 geese in Seattle since a federal judge ruled in 2000 that the government could kill Canada geese in portable gas chambers set up on the back of trucks.

Gee, taking them to a mini-Auschwits is so much more humane than hunting them. </sarcasm>

[Diddle E. Squat]

Instead of killing birds, opponents including the Humane Society of the United States and PAWS advocate spraying goose eggs — or addling them — with vegetable or mineral oil, which kills the embryos when air can't get through the eggshell.

Ah yes, once again abortion is the humane solution...

[LizardQueen]

What a waste - those birds should've been eaten. They should open up a limited goose hunt.

LQ

[Diddle E. Squat]

said Bob Chorush of ,b>Give Geese a Chance.

I can just hear John Lenin singing now...

BTW, why not donate the geese to shelters to be cooked and served as food? So what if the homeless started whining about goose like the kid did about turkey in 'A Christmas Story' ("Goose this, goose that, goose sandwiches, goose soup, goose casserole, goose goulache,...), beggars can't be choosers.

[Bringbackthedraft]

This is real, right? Its not another Onion report? We have the same problem in our area, the geese don't go south anymore. They just hang around all year and the flocks just keep getting bigger. Where are all the hunters? (Actually its too close to the residential areas for goose hunting)

[Sunshine Sister]

We had a huge flock of geese at the place the business I work for moved to. On the weekends they would poop all over the parking lots. What a mess.

[SpinnerWebb]

PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals!

[najida]

I agree on the hunt...

Gasing birds isn't the way to do it....

[jriemer]

USS DuckDestroyer

[Dilly]

A hunt would not be practical. These geese are at busy parks and beaches. Way too many people around. There was a suggestion to give the gassed geese to a food bank for distribution to the needy. I'm not sure what came of that.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Nice dog!

[bigfootbob]

"What a waste - those birds should've been eaten."

Agreed. I think I remember reading the meat was offered to the shelters and food banks. The offers were rejected because of the lack of a USDA inspection protocol.

Can't have the needy eating non-goobernint certfied, (but safe), food, no way!

[Some hope remaining.]

They say the roundups are cruel and unnecessary and advocate nonlethal methods.

Have they considered teaching the birds abstinence, or handing out birth control at goose high schools?

[Zipporah]

Canadian geese as beautiful as they are, are becoming a real nuisance..like flying rats. We can thank Ducks Unlimited.

[najida]

I am in South GA and they are becoming more and more prevalent.....

20 years ago, we never saw them.

[SauronOfMordor]

A hunt would not be practical. These geese are at busy parks and beaches. Way too many people around.

OK, so close the park one morning per week, and open it for bow-hunting. Arrows make no noise, and have limited range, making them much safer than shotguns. Plus if you do it from tree-stands, any misses will just go into the ground near the goose.

[Bob Buchholz]

Ok, no hunt. Get them into the pens just as they are doing now but take them out one-by-one and behead them like chickens and they could still make a tasty meal. Give them to the people that didn't get the 400.00 tax hand-out.