We asked: Ajax recently banished hundreds of Canada geese. Will this work, or how else should municipalities control their populations?

Re: Durham Humane Society. While on my holidays, I was notified by a dog-walking buddy that three tabby kittens had been dumped off at Russet Park in northwest Oshawa. Because I used to volunteer at Toronto Wildlife Centre, some neighbours felt I should look after catching the kittens. I was only successful getting one. The other two were probably rescued by other people. I asked another dog buddy who works at Pet Value if they would take the kitten for adoption and she advised she would if I first dropped the kitten off at Durham Humane Society so that it would get its shots. I called Durham Humane Society and told them about my plan and was advised they would not take the kitten as they had too many. I am now stuck with a kitten and as a taxpayer, I am put out about the politics in animal rescue. Here I have a way out for the kitten but the Humane Society won't cooperate! What's a person supposed to do!

-- Janice Price, Oshawa

I believe that if the Ajax goose banishment is unsuccessful, the municipality should allow any interested hunters to participate in a cull. Private hunters have to take multiple safety courses and are required by law to use the meat of hunted game birds while government employees may let them spoil. If a cull must take place it will be less wasteful to allow private hunters to do it.

-- Marty Gobin, Whitby 

Since this is a natural resources problem, the provincial and federal governments have to jointly address the issue because it also falls under the Migratory Birds Act. I think that the laws governing burgeoning Canada geese populations aught to be amended to allow harvesting these birds for human consumption by means other than hunting. The civil service should have to monitor and net the various surplus bird flocks then process them the same way we do turkeys and chickens. If the meat is found fit for human consumption (after testing) it could be supplied to those citizens on welfare and in genuine need of supplementary food assistance. Or is this just too logical for the politiciands and bureaucracy to grasp?

-- James R. McGillawee, Oshawa

Ajax is paying someone to remove the geese, but since the geese all look the same, how can you tell if they have some repeat offenders on their hands. Ajax could be paying for the removal of the same goose over and over. I know this guy, he is a professional goose remover: seen him around town :elderly chap, white suit & hair, has a cane and a black bow-tie,just can't remember his name, Colonel something...

-- Rick Foster, Whitby