DID other readers feel angry, as I did, after reading Kate Lock's column in Saturday's Evening Press (July 30).

She dedicated the whole page to reviving the contentious issue of geese in Rowntree Park, and said animal lovers, myself included, who fought the council's goose cull plans in 2000 have "never been near the park".

Has this woman been stalking me? How else would she know which parts of York I do and don't visit? In fact, I frequently visit Rowntree Park.

It is very sad that people say the park has to be for one species only, and we should choose between people and geese. I also find it sad that killing is always the method of lessening an animal population people turn to.

I have to put up with drunks urinating and being sick up the wall of my house. Should they be culled?

The council is egg-painting and has also put signs up asking people not to feed the geese. I have checked the park a few times during the last few days and, although there is some poo which you would expect anywhere where there is water, there are also large areas where there isn't any. I have never seen more than 25 geese at any one time.

I congratulate the council for making the humane, and more effective, long-term decision not to go ahead with the cull.

To those readers who dislike the geese, I say please bear with the council - as geese get old and die naturally, the population will lessen, and the egg-painting will ensure only minimal amounts of goslings hatch each year.

Sarah Bramley.

Gordon Street, York.

Updated: 09:23 Thursday, August 04, 2005