Posted on 06/29/2022 4:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
More than 20 deer have moved in on Kinlochleven near Fort William in Lochaber, Scotland, and are said to have begun to "intimidate" the community.
A lone stag arrived four years ago before slowly attracting hinds and the wild animals eventually started wandering the streets and local parks.
In January a proposal to kill off the herd was vetoed, with villagers arguing they could learn to live side by side with the new settlers.
The village used to house a giant aluminium smelting works but now much of its economy is supported by tourists walking the West Highland Way, with many encouraged to visit to see the deer up close.
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“...villagers arguing they could learn to live side by side with the new settlers.”
Things like this don’t usually work-out well at all.
Invite a few for dinner.
The male is a stag and the hinds are females. So this male started attracting females? I can see how issues would multiply, if this one stag was servicing multiple hinds.
That is too funny. He thought he knocked her head off.
Then he thinks; “Well she wasn’t that good looking anyway”, as he goes back to finish.
Oh, deer!
A nearby vacation lake has a population of deer that has become addicted to tourist welfare in the form of snacks and chips. They are very aggressive and will bump and paw at you to beg, only they aren’t dogs so people get injured.
Weirdly, they seem obsessed with red heads, especially the really freckled, fire engine red types. Those poor people would quickly be surrounded by a head bobbing herd of infatuated does. It was really strange.
Pretty quick the critters figure out where they will not get shot. And then they have prom night.
I laugh every time I watch it.
Poor thing. LOL.
That’s hilarious!
I just bought a fake coyote to scare the deer out of our yard. I saw a big bull elk like the one in that gif at the sporting goods store. It’s a practice target for hunters.
Our town must have thinned the herd last winter. I’ve counted up to 26 deer around our yard in past years. Now we are down to two does and a buck. I’ve got a six layer deer defense that is working pretty good: Spray bushes and flowers with “Liquid Fence” (but hold your nose!); twin lines of “Deer Scram” at the edge of our property; a fake coyote; coyote urine sprayed around the coyote; some new “Wireless Deer Fence” training devices (two foot tall plastic posts with electrodes on top) that attract the deer and give them a high voltage shock on the tongue!; and motion-activated sprinklers. I also charge at them waving my arms and screaming bloody murder at them.
Do the residents understand that Culling is for the protection of the herd by removing the old males with old sperm, it gives the young males with good strong healthy sperm a chance at the herd which will keep the herd genetically healthy and viable. That is what a cull is for.
She lost her head. The buck’s reaction is hilarious.
That would certainly ruin my mood.
Red Deer are like elk. They round up harems and defend them from other males.
Do the residents understand that if they don’t cull the herd that they will be running into deer with their cars, which in addition to causing property damage, may also lead to serious injury to the occupants in the cars? Without natural predators, only humans can control the deer population, by hunting or car accidents.
But they had to bote on it! Why? Do they vote on all animal control issues?
The bleeding hearts do not know a damn thing about nature. Truly, they are ignorant by way opf virtue signalling.
Maybe they will luck out and have a few traditional good old boy poachers of the Kings forests and fields.
The Wallace and his men with silent long bows could make a merry feast! That and some good old Lochaber Ale.
Thats a proper cull.
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