It’s not real. It’s a rubber coyote decoy — one of six deployed across the 18-hole executive course to scare away geese, whose large droppings muck up fairways, greens and golf spikes.

“You’ll get a coyote to fully commit if you add an attractant scent for his nose and a moving decoy for his eyes,” Stewart says. “But don’t overdo it with these other tactics, because an educated ...

After the first of the year, the Great Bend Brit Spaugh Zoo director was able to buy some enrichment items for the animals ...