At least 20 geese have died in the last few days, and no one knows why yet.
On Wednesday, Nov. 9, a Winchester Court called police about two sick geese behind his house. Police found 15 dead geese at the Winchester pond and three more at the Drake/High Point pond.
The next day, more deceased geese were found on Admiralty Drive and Park Lane Drive.
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"We don't know what happened yet," Detective Lt. John Janowski said. "We don't know if they were poisoned, and if they were, if it was accidental or intentional."
A wildlife officer from the Ohio Department of Natural resources took the bodies of a couple of geese Thursday to try to determine the cause of death.
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Janowski said whatever happened to the waterfowl might not have even happened in Strongsville.
"Geese fly, which makes it harder to determine," he said. "It could have happened anywhere."
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