In fact, they are so great that they named a country after them.

OK, enough of the nice stuff and lets get into the actual true stuff. Canada Geese are scourge and quite a few people would be much happier ONLY seeing them in a picture on the wall. Especially if the picture is in someone else’s home.

Many waterfront parks have been taken over by Canada Geese. Their feces resemble dog feces in both size and texture. And Canada Geese can poop !!! They apparently like the grass grown in parks as it is nutritious. They are very vicious and will attack humans and dogs. Sometimes their concentration is so great that their feces pollute swimming beaches making unusable. They end result is the loss of park space to the “sacred” Canada Goose.

The biggest problem is they are a protected species. I also understand that there are more then 30 varieties of Canada Goose and not all of them tolerate human habitation. And, some tolerate degrees of humans. Some of the human varieties will winter year round in the northern climes. Around humans they have no predators and so have a low death rate and high rate of propagation. Their populations have grown out of control in many areas.

To combat the overpopulation, park management has been forced to become inventive. Since the mature birds cannot be touched, the eggs are painted with oil, which stops the embryos from growing. Or, they are captured and moved to another location. As mentioned earlier, Canada Geese will attack people, so this moving can be hazardous.

As for frying them in oil, I think most fowl is batter baked. They be a part of nature, but so is the Norwegian Rat.

Cook ‘em I say. But pluck and clean ‘em first.

On the other hand, this reminds me of some pet-loving people being “outraged” when Michael Moore’s movie “Roger & Me” came out. The segement on a woman raising rabbits for sale – pet or meal, your choice – had some vocal opponents to “murdering bunnies”. As if Elmer Fudd was the only guy who ever wanted to eat rabbit.

Frying guys in oil? This sounds different. Maybe everybody should write congress and we can have a new law making frying guys in oil legal or maybe not. Can we fry gals in oil too or will N.O.W. protest that?

You can’t say civilization isn’t advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.–Will Rogers

You get the real wacko comments here John. Funny stuff!

See: “Migratory Bird Treaty Act (1918)”

“It looks like somebody had been butchering cattle there — it was just covered in blood and feathers,” he said.

I don’t know much about butchering cattle, but I highly doubt there’s many feathers involved.