Foster City Moves Forward With Plan to Kill 100 Geese Over Poop Problem

[@Victor-it6bv]

I say cook them during Thanksgiving and feed them to the homeless.

[@i537]

Never tasted one of those before.

[@jalvarez2216]

Foster City really does not like the Cobra Chicken.

[@kylekaptures747]

No way this is true. This is horrible.

[@skyisfalling8173]

Foster City sucks! Clean your top 3 most toxic beaches. Hate FC.

[@holymoly8718]

seems like a shitty situation

[@zenmeister4514]

Canada should step in and rescue these geese. They're really quite beautiful.

[@ajantics]

Let the geese live!!!!

[@Proj_Doomsday]

How about we use the them bird as a food source to feed the homeless people year round? I like to see the outrage from the same folks on both issues.

[@cathylindeboom4494]

Why do you like seeing the outrage? From either side? I find it terribly sad. Although I do agree, it would be an even bigger offense to let the carcasses go to waste.

[@LivingWithGeese]

@@cathylindeboom4494 That's exactly what will happen. They won't process the meat due to HPAI risk.

[@glass1258]

So progressive. Don’t forget folks they think the same about humans .

[@harlock75]

Dude, it's Foster City which is more conservative. Lame

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

These invasive birds don’t think, they just create health risks for the community.

[@cathylindeboom4494]

Hey glass house, don't throw stones!! I realize that there is some necessity for hunting. I don't criticize hunters. Please don't put down those of us who love wildlife, and all animals. I know it makes me wimpy and a snowflake, but it hurts my heart to see these kinds of solutions....

[@artie4017]

Sweet, a solution for poop on Market St.

[@zackfea6498]

Simple solution= just stop watering the grass they eat in that area. No grass no geese.

[@mrsleep0000]

They end up on our football fields at the school district I work for, shall we have the kids playing on dirt lots?

[@zackfea6498]

@@mrsleep0000 That's something for your superintendent or principle to decide, while this is a public area they can live with a couple of yellow patches of grass or dirt areas.

[@The_VANtastic_Pack]

We cant evict non paying rental tenants but we can evict geese?

[@The_VANtastic_Pack]

They could have the homeless population move in on the geeses territory?

[@cathylindeboom4494]

NO

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

Gotta love the unashamed gall of the lady from the New Jersey-based animal society claiming that because her group wrote letters against the geese removal, Foster City is “going against public opinion.” What a bunch of gabagool.

[@LivingWithGeese]

New Jersey has been dealing with geese for far longer than your city has. Plus, they offered to pay for a solution. YOUR city will pay thousands of dollars to kill geese instead because of stupidity. The city I work in now uses humane methods. We have volunteers who addle eggs, and it doesn't cost the city a single cent. The program 100% works, and it will work with any city if they actually don't half-ass it like Foster City is doing.

[@milesmayhem5440]

Aren’t these birds protected?

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

They’re an invasive species. Nasty birds, too.

[@mrsleep0000]

In Canada they are. Here they are a non-native invasive species.

[@cathylindeboom4494]

I find this disturbing. Our water storage ponds are a beautiful and perfect habitat for many species of migratory birds. I've become very fond of our local Canadian geese. Apparently they don't really migrate anymore when they have a year-round temperate climates to live in - thanks climate change/humans. Geese mate for life, btw, and they grieve the loss of their mates. In our nearby water storage basin, there is a chain link fence around it, protecting the water, the geese, ducks, and many other birds from humans. It also divides the small neighboring park, as the geese stay within the boundaries of the fence, by the water. Therefore, NO poop problem. It is always a pleasure to see them with their goslings in the springtime. This depresses me to hear. I surely hope they don't intend to POISON them!!? And all the other wildlife, AND the water itself!!!

[@cardinalstar2048]

Agreed 💯 and what's next I cannot believe they can't find a place for the entire flock to go here at LMC college we have tons and yes they all grieve when something happens to one of them I've seen it myself they are also great watch dogs for farms properties

[@cathylindeboom4494]

@@cardinalstar2048 What a horrible City Council/community!

[@kuros2349]

No information on what attracts the geese to this one specific location?

[@cathylindeboom4494]

Bodies of water.

[@The_VANtastic_Pack]

Why don't they just get some animatronic coyotes to roam around or a few border collies to shoo them out/to other areas.

[@mrsleep0000]

Doesn't work. The school district I work for has tried everything short of poisoning them. They aren't deterred. A dog works, but you cant have a dog on a school campus unless it's a service dog.

[@aussiekingofmongrels]

If I was the spouse of whoever suggested this idea I would watch my back

[@julieslatton8714]

👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾🤣🤣🤣 that's funny but true

[@dany8822]

This city must be filled with awful residents. Instead of just cleaning up after the wild*life*, they've decided "naw, we'll just kill the birds." Sorry, but that's pretty disgusting.

[@skyisfalling8173]

Agreed! Grrrrrr.

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

If you actually lived in FC maybe you wouldn’t be so quick to judge. Cleaning up does nothing - the poop is back in about an hour. These geese are an invasive species and should be removed.

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

@@skyisfalling8173 “Sky is Falling” is an accurate way to describe the reactions of the pro-poop squad who are against any form of action to remove the geese

[@dany8822]

@@lukeisagiantsfan I don’t know. Employ a couple people for cleanup; keep living wildlife alive. Seems fair with the way governments spend their citizens’ money these days.

[@CyberCheese392]

If they really are already moving forward with killing, I hope they have a process and it isnt random or something!

[@adamking2105]

Goose Game

[@michaelchalkley5484]

The Canadian Air Force ✈

[@lisalamour6462]

These animals are innocent, these people should be ashamed.

[@CyberCheese392]

Wasn't there an idea to neuter them or do something to their eggs?

[@imberrysandy]

Can some jobs be created to clean the poop or scare the geese away? Messing with the ecosystem like this didnt work in past and make things worse

[@ei6242]

Up

[@carmencitanavarro5822]

Sad news! In College Park Maryland at the University of Maryland, they walk around campus and no one bothers them. But in the Bay Area people complain about them?! People in Northern California seem so entitled about non-sense! Why are the same people not outrage about homelessness or other injustices like rent increases?

[@esjihn]

fence in bird?

[@juicyfruit6311]

Maverick's not going to like Goose getting killed again!

[@MochaHontas420]

Sickening, the city can pay to clean this up. In Arizona geese and many wild animals are protected if caught killing it’s illegal. Send them to Maricopa the geese live a luxury life here.

[@Thelongmanable]

*_Geese are invasive animals not even native to these areas. Someone is overbreeding them to be this way and they need to be dealt with..._*

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

The poop will be back in an hour regardless of it is removed because the population of this INVASIVE SPECIES is much too large. That’s something the pro-poop squad who comment on this post (Many of whom do not live in FC) fail to consider.

[@lisalamour6462]

Cruel people ! There's no excuse for this!!!

[@Proj_Doomsday]

use a fence? Cause the birds can't fly, right?

[@catfishjohn56]

most homeless will eat them and any other things squrals pigeons let the in for a week

[@tomatowing512]

No.....

[@VinnieNiZero]

just eat them

[@PERFECTLS3]

Isn't this near San Francisco? Don't the homeless crap on the sidewalks and in the streets there? Yeah, let's worry about geese FFS.

[@mybrokenmindddd]

DON'T KILL THEM JUST CAPTURE THEM AND RELEASE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE I LIKE OUR CANADIAN GEESE DON'T KILL THEM

[@catfishjohn56]

as ret green keeper by spaying pesdidside on grass the night befor closed day then water it of next night it killed hunders we compoated them to make green grass that they recked

[@cathylindeboom4494]

You mean pesticides? So let's just dump poison? That has been proved to cause a lot of environmental problems in the long run. Not to mention cruel.

[@Thelongmanable]

*_Find the nest remove the eggs and just let them die out on there own..._*

[@Proj_Doomsday]

"There is push back here". Yeah from the people who do not have to live in the S show!

[@cathylindeboom4494]

In the water storage basin down the street from me, the pond is surrounded by a chain link fence. There is a little neighboring park where kids play, etc. The geese and other birds stay on the inside of the fence by the water. Problem solved! They even provide a magnifying viewer for the public. Don't tell me FRESNO is more progressive, kinder and wiser than this Bay Are community!

[@The_Rain_Song]

So move them to SF they will be welcomed with open wings

[@jalvarez2216]

They can poop on the street there too!

[@wildechild5]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Leave them alone you f'ing geese killers. #SAVETHEGEESE

[@Bay510Area]

Lol

[@lukeisagiantsfan]

REEEEEEEEE

[@mrsleep0000]

Non-native invasive species...we need to cull them.

[@Hamlin2Fast]

Good riddance geese are highly annoying and honestly disgusting

[@skyisfalling8173]

I say the same about you.

[@cathylindeboom4494]

@@skyisfalling8173 I totally agree, and bet he probably is.

[@allenbaxter5180]

PETA, WHERE THE HELL YOU AT!!!!!!

[@damiangutierrez9103]

Can I bring my shotgun and dog ?

[@ElPalo.]

I will let everyone know it’s hunting season 🔫