Long Island school recruits adorable celebrity dog to fight goose poop epidemic: Its a real problem

Poo poo it all you want.A Long Island school getting mercilessly bombarded with goose poop crafted a unique solution to combat the daily air raids — putting their “celebrity” pooch on the scent.The district of Island Trees in Levittown has recruited Tuck, a sharply trained herding Border Collie, to chase hundreds of honkers off its fields.“I have seen fields completely covered, and all he does is run up, make that first turn, and clear it within 10 seconds,” Michael F.Stokes Elementary School principal Allison Ackerman told The Post of her guardian of the ruff.“We had a lot of goose poop.

Even the kids say there’s less goose poop when they come in from recess … it’s funny to talk about, but it’s a real problem because the kids would get it on their clothes.”The four-year-old black and white pooch, whose name is short for his home state of Kentucky, impressively follows the commands of Ackerman while on his daily duty.“I say ‘way-a-me’ and that means to go all the way clockwise around the geese.And ‘come-by’ means goes all-the-way counterclockwise,” she explained of the poo-preventing pup who is also trained to herd sheep.“If we want him to get a little closer to something that he’s not seeing, I will say ‘shh, shh shh,’ and he’ll keep inching up, and then I’ll give the second command,” Ackerman added Friday on what was, fittingly, national take your dog to work day.Tuck’s services — he does rounds daily with a handler at all the Island Trees schools and even wags his tail in the car when approaching a flock — have become both cheaper and more effective than a professional goose clearing service the district had before acquiring him in April 2024.Every morning, the NY POSTcast offers a deep dive into the headlines with the Post’s signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime and everything in between.

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