He better keep doing it now in perpetuity. They’ll depend on that food.
My neighbors used to put out dog food for the deer, and I finally realized that was why I had a perpetual deer track thru my property. Salt block will do it too. Deer are opportunists. (Deer hunters are too).
“He better keep doing it now in perpetuity. They’ll depend on that food.”
THAT’s the problem. To run a shelter or rescue operation is one thing. To get animals that are living in the wild to become dependent on human feeders is not good for a number of reasons.
The extra feeding the herd is getting could possibly provide for building and sustaining a herd size that the natural environment in the area cannot support. If that’s the case, is the human feeding operation actually just supplying more deer to be hunted and killed during hunting season. If that’s the case, then is his feeding operation as altruistic as it seems? And, how long before the familiarity and dependence is such that this guys neighbors - which you can see are not that far from him in the video - start to get deer approaching their property with the same expectation?
On one hand I understand the guy as a kind soul. I am just not sure it is the right thing to do.