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Here in Long Island, Canada goose is seen everywhere – park, golf course, parking lot, school yard, and so on. Not everyone likes this large bird (wing span 5-6 feet), because their droppings are proportionally large and they do it whenever and wherever they feel like doing it.

Fortunately to Canada geese, the bird is under Federal protection through the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. This act makes it unlawful to hunt, kill, sell, disturb nests, purchase or possess migratory birds except as permitted by regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior.

One local golf course, Cold Spring County Club, is also annoyed by Canada geese who usually hang out around its ponds, pooping all over the place. One day, apparently, the Club managers got this brilliant idea: install fake dogs around the pond to scare the geese off!

Thus a half dozen of scary-looking fake dog, painted black, were placed around the pond (click on the picture to enlarge).

Alas, the geese are loving it! They kind of hang out near the dogs, showing absolutely no sign of being scared (click on the picture to enlarge).

Obviously, Canada goose is smarter than whoever came up with this brilliant idea.

This reminds me of this funny picture of a pigeon sitting right on top of a “fake owl” which supposedly repells pigeons (click on the picture to enlarge).