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06/03/2026
Well, what a fun week that was! If you want to learn more about what to expect with goose control services, check out the blog post for the full run down.
https://dogsolutionspestcontrol.com/blog/what-to-expect-when-hiring-a-goose-control-team
06/02/2026
The molting season is another unexpected thing for goose control.
Bird feathers become damaged overtime. To be sure they can continue to fly, they must regrow their feathers every year. Canadian geese do this by losing most of their feathers at one time, called molting, and this leaves them unable to fly. Molting feathers takes around 30 days.
In Tennessee, the molting season typically happens in July. The geese all tend to molt at the same time (ask me why, I know, I know!), though the exact time depends on the individual bird. It happens right as the goslings are getting big enough to grow in their own first flight feathers.
Molting geese without goslings aren’t typically aggressive, but if they lose their flight feathers while on your property, they can be forced to stay there for the month. Because of this, many clients still want our services in July to be sure that any visiting geese don’t become residents that make a poopy and feathery mess during their stay.
Not getting a goose off the property during this time can happen fast. One day they can fly off, the next they can’t (this is obvious when we attempt to chase them off, and it is apparent they are grounded).
As with goslings, we try to pressure them to leave if other properties with ponds are nearby, but if there aren’t any, we leave them alone aside from enforcing no go zones. Once molting geese and goslings are present, the name of the game is stressing them out as little as possible so they can grow feathers or up quickly and get off the property sooner.
05/19/2026
Failure is never fun, but I thought it might be worth talking about anyway. Social media is full of the perfect success stories, but life never follows a perfect trajectory.
Sometimes we all fail.
This was a recent one of mine.
On Failure in Goose Control Recently I had a failure. Well, actually, it was two failures at the exact same location. The second failure left me incredibly proud of my dogs and myself, but frustrated. The first one? Just frustrated. The first time we went out to this location, I'll admit I was ill prepared and my dogs' trainin...
05/17/2026
Hope is the first dog I've brought home since we got backyard chickens.
My normal training technique for a goose control dog is to encourage chasing smaller birds (like ducks) first and then once their confidence is up, encouraging chasing geese.
I'm in a bind because the dogs are NOT allowed to chase the chickens even if they chase geese for a living. My first impulse was to stop her. But she's young and I don't want to quash her drive. After a few days of thinking about it, I decided, for now, it will be easier to reign her back in later.
The chickens aren't thrilled about it, but she enjoys chasing them when she gets particularly riled up. The chickens probably needed a little exercise anyway.
The dogs and I were recently hired at a new facility that had had major issues with geese at a past location.
They were wise to hire us to make sure the geese didn't get into the habit of nesting on their new property. This pair of geese weren't quite sure what to make of the dogs choosing to launch a sea based attack on them and wisely chose to leave.
In less than two weeks the amount of geese visiting was reduced from over 60 geese making a mess all over the property, to averaging less than 2 a day. And when 2 land they choose to stay near the ponds and out of the way of customers and employees until the dogs and I return to remind them this location is off limits. We'll continue services throughout the nesting season until we go a week straight without seeing any geese (for most properties that seems to be the magic amount of time to be sure the geese have truly moved on for the season).
With these geese now trained, it just takes the fun out of it for the dogs. They're looking for their next challenge. If your business is having issues with geese, the dogs would love to solve your problem too.
Many people are convinced they have to live with Canadian Geese attacking people and making messes of their properties. I promise, you don't.
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