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rustyhook
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canada geese
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5/14/2005 7:24:23 PM
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What's the best way to keep these little darlings moving on down the line. Anyone have a solution?
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Maddog
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canada geese
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5/15/2005 7:49:45 AM
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Fireworks do a great job. Either the real thing or a shotgun.
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Blue Creeker
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Surely you jest...
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5/15/2005 1:07:07 PM
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...and I bet you are.
However, someone might not know that you just can't go out and start blowing geese off your lawn.
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rustyhook
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Surely you jest...
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5/15/2005 6:27:58 PM
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I think that the day will come that a lot of people on the lake will want to shot them. Once they multiply enough you will see. They will become one of the biggest problems on the lake. So much for that.
I know they are protected and there is a season in Sept when they can be shoot. You have to buy a stamp. I'm really just wanting to move them away from my property. To much honking and poop. The more comfortable they get with the area they become aggrasive toward small dogs and people. They can hiss at me but when they ever hiss and become aggressive toward the small grandchildren - look out nelly.
What to do? What to do?
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Blue Creeker
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5/15/2005 6:34:05 PM
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I haven't done it before, but I bet Game Wardens know a trick or two about discouraging geese to hang out at your place.
There's a way, I'm sure.
Btw, what do you have in your yard that attracts them?
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noagenda
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What to do? I Know....
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5/15/2005 6:38:59 PM
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our golf course uses decoys that look like they are dead. For whatever reason...it seems to work, as least for a little while.
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rustyhook
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5/15/2005 7:50:08 PM
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The point lot next door is empty, nothing on it. They like to hang out down there and wonder around. The people across the slew throw them corn into the water. Their lot is to steep for the geese to want to climb up there.
I'll come up with something.
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UPSMAN
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What to do?
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5/15/2005 8:50:28 PM
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WE HAD A PROBLEM WITH DUCKS AND A FEW GEESE. OVER THE WINTER I SANK 3 POLES AND TIED A BIG ROPE AROUND THE POLES TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A PILING ON THE COAST. ON THE TOP I SAT A 3 FT. HIGH METAL BLUE HERRING. THIS WAS DONE JUST FOR LOOKS . I HAVE NOT HAD A PROBLEM SINCE.
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Maddog
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Surely you jest...
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5/15/2005 9:56:55 PM
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I never jest when I talk about these dirty mean animals. I've had them almost drive my grandson into the lake. I have no use at all for them. I'm toward them just like Custer was toward the indians.
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ChrisCraft
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canada geese
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5/15/2005 10:01:58 PM
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I have mentioned this before but it's worth repeating. A lever action, spring loaded Daisy BB gun is the best deterent. Ping-yah those little tail feathers with this harmless stinger not only gets their attention but is fun as all get out! They will know they aren't welcome...works with squirrels too...:)
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Blue Creeker
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Ummm...
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5/15/2005 10:06:18 PM
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...Custer lost.
Not saying your grandson is not worth ridding yourself of the geese, just don't get a hefty fine and the loss of some property because of it.
Game Wardens are a serious bunch.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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as I've said before, use a
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5/16/2005 12:43:15 AM
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paintball gun. No damage, no death, but they will go bother someone else.
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Maddog
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Ummm...
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5/16/2005 7:52:28 AM
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You missed my point.......Custer thought that the only good indian was a dead indian and that's the way I feel about the geese. If they would only go back to Canada where they belong, that would solve all the problems. I don't think a game warden would fine me for protecting my family.
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Lakeman
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canada geese
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5/17/2005 9:02:02 AM
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T each the grandson to respect the geese and tell him why the geese act the way they do. The geese were here before you were. Didn't we do the same thing to the indians? Teaching your grandson to hate is a bad thing.
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Maddog
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canada geese
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5/17/2005 9:19:05 AM
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Lakeman, okay, I'll let my grandson play in the yard. Then your beloved geese come along and run him into the lake and he drowns. Should I feel better because he learned not to hate the geese? He's dead and the geese are still here because they were here first. You and Jimmy Carter must have gone to the same school. And I'm not so sure they were here before we were. I grew up fishing on many lakes in Georgia and Alabama and I don't remember seeing those sorry birds until the mid-80's.
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Lakeman
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canada geese
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5/17/2005 9:47:17 AM
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I didn't vote for Carter. Worse president we ever had. I have grandsons of my own so I don't advocate dead grandsons either. I know peaceful co-existance is tough but there is a better way. They are drawn to people because some folks feed them. Lure them away from where they shouldn't be. There's too much shooting and killing already. The only good thing Carter did was promote " Habitat For Humanity ". And rightfully so since his family owned most of the slaves.
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longtimelaker
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5/17/2005 6:30:15 PM
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There's one of the problems mentioned above, neighbors throwing corn out to the geese. That keeps them coming back. Don't feed them. They will come back.
As to the comment above about the geese being here before us, I have been on this lake since 1959. The geese have only taken up home here in recent years.
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