What Safeguards Are In Place........

....to ensure that only CANADA geese are hassled under this program. In the present climate I can see some special interest group going before the HRC claiming racism against Peking Ducks, Toulouse Goose, Nene Goose, etc. and having the city fund a program to monitor the situation. And why only border collies?

A gaggle of border collies have become Toronto's most rambunctious beach sanitation engineers

Jun 17, 2008 04:30 AM

Theresa Boyle
Urban Affairs reporter

Torontonians have Bette Midler to thank for the decrease in goose poop on their beaches.

It was while filming That Old Feeling in High Park in 1996 that the actress took note of the overpopulation of Canada geese and their ubiquitous droppings. She mentioned a New Jersey program where border collies herd the geese away to park supervisor Carol Guy.

Next thing Guy knew, Midler and the movie's producers had purchased Lucy Goosey, a border collie pup, as a gift to the city.

The rest is history. Lucy is retired, but Piper, Roy, Dixie and Will are all in the service of the city's waterfowl management program.

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