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I have a pond at home and began the season with a pair of Candian Geese, the female of which was sitting on her eggs. This is my first season with them, and I began to feed them corn. I thought it was kinda neat.

Well, about a month after those two guys arrived, they were joined by three more. Now I had five. I continued to feed them, but was quickly becoming annoyed with the goose crap all over my lawn.

Then, about two months ago, these five geese were joined by another group of six, making it 11 in total. But the two groups did NOT get along. When they came too close to each other, a fight would break out and geese would go honking and flying everywhere. I now had a turf war going on on my front lawn. And the invading geese were winning over my original geese.

But the last straw was when a couple weeks ago, the group of five geese came flying in, and that group was quickly followed by another group of 13 geese, for a total of 18 geese. I had had it. I grabbed my shotgun and stormed outside, blasting a couple shells off over their heads. That scattered them.

I don't have the heart to go around killing them, but when I see a goose on my land, it's gonna hear my shotgun.

FYI, Dow Jones tried a little "cannon" that would make a loud bang every hour to keep the geese away. Didn't work after a while. They get used to the noise if no geese are dying. They switched to border collies but animal lovers complained that they were too close to the highway. Not sure what they use these days.

What they really need is a general depredation order -- treat them as vermin -- during the parts of the year when the migratory geese are not around.