Two Saturdays in a row

[ZebraStripes]

For the first 7 years of officiating, I had never had to have game management clean dog excrement off of a field.  Now two Saturdays in a row I've had to get the field cleaned up.  The real stinky part is that the first week, a kid managed to go through it before game management got it off the field.

[MadMax]

A single little "deposit" of dog poo, no matter from what pedigree or diet of dog, is nothing compared to the toxic, hazardous environment we face up north here. Goose poo.

Yes, with Fall Ball cranking up, and the temperature dropping, we arrive at our city and county park fields in the morning to find them covered with goose poo, some looking as bad as a scene involving the Exxon Valdez, except goose poo instead of crude oil. "But wait Mad Max!", you might say, "Aren't these fields fenced in?" Yes, for the most part, they are. But these geese are smart... they are attracted to all the sunflower seeds left behind on the field from the evenings before, and with the fences enclosing them, they feel much more secure knowing there is only one or two avenues that a predator can approach them.

Same goes for soccer pitches (at least county / city "common ground" fields); the games on them rustle up the grass, exposing seeds, roots, worms and insects, and the geese swoop in as soon as the sun goes down and take up residence at night. Lemme tell ya, taking a slide tackle (soccer) or fielding a grounder (baseball) in goose poo is a "unique" sensation.

[alan2703]

Same in jersey with the Geese, we have 2 seasons to hunt them in jersey one for domestic ones and then fed. But state has not figured out the ones they want us to shoot are on ballfields etc where we can not shoot them.

[ZebraStripes]

We have our own hate affair with the Canadien Crappers aka Geese.  I'm all for a complete extinction of the species.

 

[stkjock]

our town parks department put wooden cutouts of dogs on the fields to keep the geese away in the spring/fall.  Seemed to work pretty well.