You could learn what not to do from this interaction:
Ooh, dinner!
Leaving aside the parts of these posts that advocate harming geese, you guys might be onto something.
I saw a program – it might have been the Smithsonian Channel Martin Clunes dog special – in which the host interviewed a man who had the idea to use rescued border collies from shelters to chase geese away from military airbases. This was hugely successful – he said it worked much better than loud noisemakers or humans waving their arms. A figure was quoted on the yearly dollar damage to aircraft from goose strikes, before and after BC (border collies) and the drop was orders of magnitude; I don’t remember exactly, but it was something like tens of millions of dollars down to tens of thousands of dollars.
The man claimed that the geese do not return to fields patrolled by border collies, even though the dogs had never caught or harmed a goose, but that they had come back fairly quickly to fields patrolled by humans, even after shootings. He ventured his opinion that the geese had an instinctive fear of four-legged, wolflike predators that far outweighed their learned fear of humans.
So I’d recommend an active dog to those humans concerned about goose attack.
That’s all well and good at an airport – until the dogs decide that the airplanes need herding. I wonder how much more damage to an aircraft engine is done by sucking in a border collie instead of a goose. 