There may be more than one way to chase a goose.
Last month, AB Today reported on San Diego State University's plan to control geese infiltration on its football fields using plastic coyotes. Now, a high school athletic director in Massachusetts is taking a more animated approach.
As reported by The Enterprise in Brockton, Whitman-Hanson Regional School District athletic fields have a geese problem, which prompted athletic director Bob Rodgers to post a social media request that residents with border collies spend as much time around campus as possible in the hopes the geese leave.
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"So...this is a strange ask but its worth a shot," Rodgers wrote, according to Amelia Stern of The Enterprise. "Right now, we have so many of these geese and it's creating a problem for our teams," he wrote. "The Canadian Geese hate these dogs (even though the dogs do not hurt them). Studies show that the geese will relocate elsewhere if they see the dogs on our campus."
Rodgers asked border collie owners to take their dogs for a walk around the school's fields, and even volunteered to "dog sit" them himself.
"From what I have read, this is the most humane way to deal with this issue," he said.
