Middletown Gets Geese Police for City’s Parks

A pond at Maple Hill Park in Middletown on July 21, 2016. Yvonne Marcotte/Epoch Times

MIDDLETOWN—The City of Middletown has contracted with the company Geese Police for $6,400 a year to assist in controlling the goose population in city parks. Geese Police uses trained border collies to deter geese from settling in the open spaces in the parks. The goose poop has been had affected the cleanliness of the parks and created a health hazard to residents using Watts Memorial Park, Fancher-Davidge Park, and Maple Hill Park. Christine Brinckerhoff, the city’s superintendent of Recreation, said the dogs make the geese “get lost so they can’t return to the same location.” The company’s website says it provides an “effective, environmentally safe Canada goose control service.”