Cheers to the Milton Community Foundation in Delaware for helping the town do the right thing and clean up after Canada geese. About six weeks ago, the mayor of Milton approached the foundation and asked if it could help the town to acquire a machine to clean up goose droppings at Memorial Park because it was becoming bothersome to residents.

During the summer, the town of about 3,000 has a weekly, evening concert that several hundred visitors attend. In addition, there is a playground in the park were children play daily. Every week the public works staff would have to manually rake the park to help ensure that it was cleared of the droppings.

The mayor shared information about Tow & Collect’s goose poop scooper equipment with the Foundation’s board member, and they immediately decided to provide the $4,995 as it was not in the town budget.

“As it turned out, the machine was delivered at noon on Wednesday, the day of a concert, and the day before our July 4th town event on Thursday. Within a couple of hours, the park was cleaned and our visitors did not have to tiptoe around the droppings,” said Steve Crawford, president of the foundation.

He added that, according to the Public Works Supervisor, the town saves about five work hours every week by having the scooper so it will help pay for itself.

“As far as the MCF, it is one of the best donations we have ever made,” Crawford said. 

Friends of Animals gets many calls in the spring and summer from concerned members who are upset that their condo complex, retirement community or lake association are approving egg addling and other harassment measures and, even worse, geese roundups and slaughter, because they believe there are too many in their respective areas. Egg addling—oiling, shaking, or puncturing an egg during incubation until the embryo is unviable—is barbaric.