Canada's only sorta-foreign, as far as I'm concerned.

They're lucky they aren't the Al-Qaeda Goose.

lol, shabadoo.

i suspect that the foreign-ish sounding name has nothing to do with it. i suspect they want to reduce the numbers because they're such a fucking nuisance.

They're nasty little bastards; gas them down to 10% of population every 10 years I say. This video of Anthony Bourdain in Seattle tells you everything you need to know about these geese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS1iU6VyN…

If they were United States Geese they wouldn't shit half as much... And the dirty Moslems would be killing them.

I suspect that if they were constantly shitting all over the desks, laptops and cell phones of Stranger writers, the writers would want to kill them even if they were called Gay Capitol Hill Geese.

Why the hell are they called Canada Geese anyway? They spend just as much time in America.

Gas them? Why not find some way of killing them that allows for cooking them and serving them at shelters? They're not great but they're still made of food. There are plenty of hungry people who would be happy to get some goose whether they're Canadian, American, AlQuadan, or gay Seattlean.

mostly surprised mudede didnt post this subtextual quandry

Canada is still pissed at the US for holding one of their citizens without trial. Not to mention the Canadian citizen held from the combat zone when he was a teen.

Just because he was al-Qaeda and was trying to blow stuff up.

If the US tries to rename Canada Geese, Canada will just have to defeat the US in another war. Which would make four - yes, I know Americans think they've only lost zero, but every time the US has fought Canada it has lost - and lost badly.

Pretty easy to strap stuff to the back of a kamikaze Canada Goose.

holden i'm sure your shit's pretty horrid too.

snap. Freedom Geese.

don't gas them. round em up and cut their heads off and sell them on the market for consumption. yes they might be a bit gamey but they'll definitely cook very well when stuffed with the right things. either that or round em up and put them on a farm to be fed and slaughtered. mmm yummy goose :-D

'gay capitol hill' is redundant.

@7, 10,

They use carbon dioxide to "gas" them. It basically just suffocates them, so they'd be fine to eat.

Are all their natural predators extinct or something?

@16 no, just people flying small jets a lot less often nowadays.

I think that part of the drastic reduction in numbers can be achieved by disrupting a couple reproductive generations. Livespan for a Canada Goose is probably 20 years, but gosling mortality is pretty high.

I don't have time to pour over the actuarial tables, but this ancient article about waterfowl mortality might help: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3534898

I wonder if Canada Geese have a hard time getting life insurance ...

I wonder if there is an insurance agency system in place for these crazy birds. I love that they will eat out of your hand. I hate when they poop on my car.

I wonder if there is an insurance agency system in place for these crazy birds. I love that they will eat out of your hand. I hate when they poop on my car.