A northern Indiana city has hired a contractor to remove and kill 400 Canada geese from a golf course and three parks.
Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood says the contractor was hired after attempts to scare off the geese with bottle rockets, golf carts and even a fake coyote failed.
Dawn Wiggins, office manager and partial owner of Elkhart-based Critter Control of Northcentral Indiana, says the geese were rounded up and exterminated according to state and federal guidelines, then buried. Wiggin says Mishawaka will end pay at least $10,000, given Critter Control's charge of $25 per bird.
Wood said residents have complained about geese attacking them and their kids in the parks and about geese causing traffic hazards crossing roads.