Dog Solutions Pest Control

Name: Dog Solutions Pest Control
Address: P. O. Box 34172, Bartlett, TN, 38134, US
Telephone: +19013374733

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Using Man's Best Friend Against Man's Worst Pests
We use dogs to chase nuisance geese off of properties, find bed bugs, and kill rats when other methods fail.

07/27/2026

And finally the third thing a good goose dog needs is a love of water. You can have a decent goose dog without a love of water, but your life will be so so so so much easier if they love it.

Geese are lazy. If they can, they won't leave when a dog chases them. Instead they'll just go in the water instead.

You want a dog that is almost as excited to go in the water to get geese as they are to chase them off land.

For Hope, her love of water has been pretty easy. But we're helping develop that by getting in there and swimming with her to teach her that she can be confident in her abilities even when quite far from land.

And also maybe it's just a little fun to swim with your dog.

07/24/2026

The second thing a good goose dog needs is a love of chasing things that move. Eventually that love will be targeted on to geese specifically.

If you have a dog that doesn't love chasing things, you will have a hard time motivating them. For our dogs the chance to chase geese is itself rewarding. Yes, we'll praise them for doing it, throw a toy or a treat, but if the only thing making them do it was the chance for a toy or a treat, they'll be less likely to do it all day if needed. They need to inherently think chasing geese is fun.

Luckily, for nearly all dogs, this is actually the easiest part of training a goose dog.

07/22/2026

In a post 2 days ago I mentioned the 3 main things a good goose dog needs. Number 1 was confidence in a wide variety of environments.

When you think geese, you probably think of letting your dog run after them in a nice grassy park, but chasing geese can have you and your dog visiting places that can scare many dogs.

In a typical day we can be on a crowded golf course with people smacking golf balls and driving golf carts within feet of our dogs, then to a school campus with thirty excited screaming kids wanting to pet them, before going to warehouse locations with huge semis driving nearby, releasing their air brakes, and swimming in ponds next to 4 lanes of traffic roads that are so loud I know the dogs can't hear me once they get about 30 feet away. It's a lot, and to love what they do, a good goose dog needs to be completely unphased by all that and anything else that might show up.

07/20/2026

When training a goose dog there are three "big picture" items you need.

1. Confidence in a wide variety of environments.
2. A strong desire to chase moving things.
3. A love of water.

You'll need other things like obedience such as coming when called, not going into roads, etc, but if you've got those big picture items, you're pretty assured to end up with a good goose dog.

I'd say a dog that dips her face under water at the slightest hint of being hot, has a strong amount of number 3.

07/02/2026

A few days ago I posted about the ethics of goose control and how using trained dogs is one of, if not THE, best goose control method available.

But I won't lie. The most unethical thing our business does (if you ask the geese and goose lovers) is removing nests.

So here's an in depth look at how we do it and how we arrived at our methods to try and make the meanest thing we do as nice as possible.

https://dogsolutionspestcontrol.com/blog/the-ethics-of-removing-goose-nests

06/30/2026

Due to getting yelled at by strangers at a new job site, I've spent way too long thinking about the ethics of goose control.

As with any good official, I've investigated my tactics and found I've done nothing wrong!

But unlike them, I've released my methods of madness to the world. If you want to read why I truly believe chasing geese with dogs is the most ethical choice of goose control, boy do I have the blog post for you:
https://dogsolutionspestcontrol.com/blog/the-ethics-of-goose-control

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.

05/29/2026

We're talking the ins and outs of goose control this week.

We try our best with goose control, but still show up on a property to the surprise of a pair of geese with a gaggle of goslings in tow. We know they didn’t hatch on the property we were hired to control, but now they are there anyway.

In these cases, we let the property owner know the goslings are there and then start gently harassing the geese. In some cases we set up “no go zones” on the property. Typically we “no go zone” the most active parts of the property. Near doors, parking lots, etc. If the parents and goslings are caught on those parts of the property, we’ll let the dogs chase them enough to cause panic (but no one gets hurt) until they reach an area the geese are okayed to stay. Once there, the dogs are called off and the geese can breath a sigh of relief.

The geese must eat to survive. For geese that is grass. Part of a successful no go zone is making sure the geese have enough food available to eat. While it might be desired to give them a small section to stay on the property, that just isn’t realistic for the growing babies. We can stop them from feeding on the small strips of grass near doors and in parking medians, but if we make too large of an area unavailable, they’ll ignore the lesson completely because they must eat.

When the babies are young, they can’t walk very far. The parents will be hesitant to go far from water where their goslings can escape by diving underwater when they believe a predator is too close. When the goslings are this young, we will often throw a toy for our dogs to fetch in the water, near but not directly at the geese. The geese will honk in fright and swim away, but won’t be panicked. And then we leave.

These moments can look like just playing with our dogs, but I promise the dogs are actually training the geese. To the geese, it looks like a close call, and our immediately leaving gives the geese a chance to make a run for it to a different property. Similar to training the geese, this often takes a few visits before the geese realize they should leave, but we’ve had great success getting families hatched elsewhere to return to elsewhere.

Sometimes despite all this, the goose families don’t leave.

This often happens when there really isn’t anywhere else for the geese to go. For instance, they nested on a property without a pond and your property is the only one with a pond in the area. When this happens, we often work the whole baby raising season to make sure the geese respect the no go areas and also keep any extra geese away.

A few geese often attracts more geese. Because the family group means there are always geese present, it increases geese showing up. We stop the problem from getting worse.

05/28/2026

After hiring us, there are other things that occur in the course of goose control that property owners don't always expect. One of those is nest removals.

During the training and maintenance phase, geese might successfully build a nest on the property. If that happens, it rarely matters how much the dogs chase them, the geese will come right back to sit on their nest again. In some cases, the geese will outright attack the dogs and refuse to be chased off.

When nests appear on the property, we always recommend removing the nest which can be done with an easy to get federal permit. We’ll take you through the steps to get it, and then take care of removing the nest for you.

Why do we recommend removing nests? Because we want to completely break the cycle of geese nesting on your property. If we chase off most of the geese, but allow a few geese to raise young there, not only do those geese that raised their young want to come back year after year, but the babies they raised will also want to come back year after year. What started out as 2 or 4 geese having babies can quickly be in the teens in just one year.

Goose control can be a slow process. The first year you’ll see dramatic results, but it often takes several years to completely break the cycle by continuously preventing geese from nesting on the site.

Another negative to allowing geese to nest is that once babies hatch, the dogs and I cannot chase them off. The babies can’t fly so the geese will be stuck on the property for a two month period as they grow up. In that time frame, the growing babies and parents will make a mess of the property, and the parent geese will often be aggressive to humans to keep people away from their babies.

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P. O. Box 34172
Bartlett, TN
38134

Telephone

+19013374733

Website

http://dogsolutionspestcontrol.com/

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