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Article: Columbia May Go To the Dogs; Border Collie a Natural For Shooing Away Geese
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 25, 1996
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One of the benefits of living at the end of the 20th century is
that almost any problem, it seems, can be solved by a new drug or a
new machine or by Microsoft. Whatever the problem, chances are it
has a high-tech solution.
Which is what makes the Columbia Council's solution to a
festering problem so quaint.
For years, Canada geese have been making a home out of Lake
Kittamaqundi, floating in its temperate waters and gorging
themselves on food handed out by pedestrians who think the geese are
oh-so-cute. They waddle around, go "honk honk" and nibble food out
of your hand, and children just love 'em.
If sweetness could kill, there would be no survivors at Lake
Kittamaqundi.
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