Letter: Geesebusters Advocates for Cost Effective, Humane Method of Geese Control

Dear Lacey,

It was about a year ago when Township officials voted in early March to enter into a $6,000 contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to capture and kill geese, which have overrun the township's lakes. After some bad press and pressure from some good citizens, the Committee rescinded its conditional vote to have geese killed and voted to use Geesebusters of Long Island's humane approach.

In February, two months earlier, Geesebusters was invited to give a demonstration of our patented and humane method of geese control for James Wioland Director of Recreation and Parks and other board members. Here's a brief description of our method, in 2003 we designed an "animal scaring device" configured as a predatory bird. Using a three-dimensional eagle, the device turns in a "prey seeking" circular motion. Canadian geese recognize the predator as real, and immediately flee an area. After a little conditioning with whistle training, the geese will avoid the area, seeking safer grounds.

It's that simple, our method exploits the bird's natural fear of an aerial predator and this inborn fear will cause geese to leave permanently. Our "animal scaring device" is the top of the food chain in the bird world and in our opinion and many others is the silver bullet. Our artificial predator can find a home in any urban area, airport, park, school, golf course, you name it and move out your geese. This method overrides any bird deterrent that's out there today and this is why the USDA and Wild Life services refuses to contact us for over 9 years.

No other methods are needed to be used with our "animal scaring device." At that demo, Geesebusters explained to the Committee that if our method is used before the mating and nesting season (late February or early March), it would be unnecessary for egg oiling to take place, saving the thousands that was spent every year. Instead, the Committee hired the USDA to oil eggs that took over three months.

Geesebusters finally gets a phone call in the last week of May for our one-week clean-out proposal which was to take place in February. When we arrived in early June geese have already moulted (see pictures). Geese lose their wing feathers and can't fly all summer (June - August). There was also a group of baby geese left by the USDA. I told James Wioland of the Parks Department that the best I can do at this late in the season, is to whistle train the 39 geese and babies so they will stay at the other side of the lake and keep the beach clean of droppings.

We were successful with our one-week clean-out and conditioning program and this kept the lake open all summer. Geesebusters has offered the sale of our method to Lacey Township last year and we will undercut the USDA's price where this is a one-time payment for a lifetime solution for it's geese problem townwide and volunteers can be trained leaving the taxpayers with a price tag of $0 for geese control.

If you want to cut wasted government spending and stop the murder-for-hire organization called the USDA, tell your Mayor and Committee Members to sign on with Geesebusters. We have been finally contacted after several months of attempts and their response is, "We have no plans with Geesebusters this year, we are looking into other alternative methods (USDA egg oiling), but thanks for your services last year".

Please view our website to learn more about our low cost and humane method.  

Sincerly,

Robert Guadagna
Owner of Geesebusters