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Geese on alert at Wickliffe's Coulby Park
Michelle Hegedis is a Canada goose's worst nightmare.
Who owns border collies Tess and Misty focuses on geese herding, a method which comes in handy for property owners who have an exorbitant quantity of geese on their own property and also the mess that has a tendency to ensue.
"Canada geese are federally protected birds. So you are not permitted to touch the bird, the goslings, eggs and nest or you will be fined," Hegedis said. "They're area of the Federal Migratory Law."
The average goose puts down 3 pounds of waste each day and a nesting pair can produce 5 or 6 eggs, said Hegedis, adding this can take into account quite a mess within the more populated areas.
"We've been surfing only at that (problem) for quite some time," Wickliffe Mayor Bill Margalis said. "We've had this geese problem, it's not so much related to the geese, but the mess they leave behind. We've had many complaints.
"Last year, we heard about (Hegedis), but we did not have anything budgeted for it,canada goose sale jackets," he said. "She came to us and said she will convince us that she can get the geese to depart the area."
Margalis said the disposable, threeweek trial at Coulby Park produced positive results, so that they entered into a contract with her for the rest of the growing season.
"The whole premise of the items I actually do would be to help home owners eliminate the nuisance of geese," Hegedis said. "(My dogs) don't run, they do not bark, it isn't mass havoc, they slowly walk up on the bird. Within my dogs' minds, they are a herding breed, so that they wish to put them in a pile for me personally.
"They operate like a coyote, how they carry themselves," she added. Continued.2
"This puts the fear into the geese. We're educating the geese this is not a safe place to breed or reproduce."
A Concord Township resident, Hegedis, who named her business Wild Geese Control, works together with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and services Lake, Eastern Cuyahoga and Geauga counties.
"I've been training dogs with my family for 35 years, doing obedience and working with rescues, and training Labrador retrievers for (American Kennel Club) field trials and hunt tests," she said. "I've had dogs my life. A buddy of mine gave me the idea for this. Knowing my background with training the dogs, he would be a property owner and had a problem with geese that had to be solved."
Using a fixed stare, Tess and Misty will apply pressure to their object by simply staring it down, she said.
"They stare down their object,www.beckyalascio.com/archives/288, whether cattle, sheep or perhaps in this case,canada goose sale, geese . plus they don't have to touch them," she said. "By getting the dogs around the property, we allow it to be really miserable for the birds to even think of placing a nest down and achieving their babies there.
"They go elsewhere, where they are able to feed and there's no tension. If they're not bothered, they just set up camp."
The dogs are educated to work by command,canada goose pas cher femme, and Hegedis said this herding process isn't a fast solution or onetime visit.
"It's a situation where I have been very lucky because of the training I've had through the years so that you can give (my dogs) something to complete," she said. "This is my second year and it is a fivetosixdayaweek job from sun up to sun down. You're working with nature, plus they don't operated by any particular schedules."
Hegedis started at Coulby Park in early spring and will continue until fall, she said.
"We want to get in before they even consider putting a nest out and that we go until it snows," she said. "It's about keeping pressure on. It's a war. We go to whichever we must have them on their toes, I'll change vehicles, change the times I go." Continued.2Browns 24, Lions 6: Brandon Weeden pulls away in quarterback derby (with videos) (18 Mentor, Willoughby Hills and Euclid men among 12 indicted on cocaine charges (89)This writer server crowned Lake County Fair Commerce Queen (with video) (85)Browns: Dion Lewis' broken fibula among several tough injuries (with videos) (79)Area law enforcement agencies going after impaired drivers (77)Browns: Jordan Cameron uses his opportunities, scores two touchdowns (77)Browns notes: Bernie Kosar addresses comments about Rams (with video) (76)
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