Denver Geese And Their Goslings

I went bike riding around Denver the other day, and took the above photograph of two geese and their 6 goslings meandering around Sloan's Lake Park.  I have seen similar scenes in Washington Park, too.  Sadly, the City of Denver culled over 1,600 Canadian geese last year, giving the meat to food banks. The reason they gave was that there were 5,000 of these geese taking up permanent residence in the parks, and they were a health hazard. This action brought strong protests from animal rights activists, as well as the general public. But now, the City of Denver is thinking about doing the same thing again this year. It was announced that they are waiting until all the goslings are hatched, and then will decide whether to resume the culling. You mean they will be killing the little goslings, too?  Who would do something like that? I was going to make a caustic comment about Follett Higher Education Group executives, but I am a better person than that, even if they did lay me off from the University of Denver Bookstore.