[neverdem]

PETA must be thrilled.

[CGASMIA68]

I get this every other year........know the signs in early stage but soon the anti bios i take will be useless.......lets treat the dear

[damondonion]

DDT for the ticks, and the modern compound bow for the deer.

[TYVets]

As my doctor said:

"ticks are the most dangerous animals in Missouri"

He was speaking of Lymne and the other serious diseases that ticks can pass on to humans.

[AlaskaErik]

It sure would be nice if the person posting would put the state in the title so the rest of us would know where this is occurring. Time and time again I see stories and I have no idea what state is involved.

[sig226]

I wonder when this will spread to Smoke Rise? Maybe those wonderful and wealthy liberals in Kinnelon will take a new view of deer hunting when they literally have to choose between the deer and themselves. Hell, even the New York Times wrote an editorial in favor of deer hunting when they realized the deer were eating their shrubbery and bashing up their Range Rovers in Nassau and Westchester Counties.

[spunkets]

The disease can be stopped in the early stages with penicillin. The incidence of the disease has very little to do with deer. The ticks feed on mice and every other animal in the forest. The ticks can also live years w/o a blood meal.

Deer ticks are readily noticable when they bite. They are continuously painful. One attached tick 1/2 mm in size can feel like one was struck hard with a splintered 2x4. In the least case, it feels like a stick with a rusty nail, that's being twisted. The lesion for the disease is unique and always noticable. That's the clue that penicillin should be given to prevent any long term effects.

[VOA]

sounds like it’s time to get a crossbow/nightvision combo to send
a message to the deer!

[EBH]

We have a park system that cull the deer every year. And every year the Bambi thumpers are there at the park entrance shouting about cruelty etc. The deer meat is dressed and used to feed the homeless...how ‘bout that for a twist? The deer here suffer from the ‘wasting disease’ and downright starvation. Folks here call them Bambi the Wood Rat...they eat everything in sight!

As far as ticks are concerned I treat my lawn with diatomacious earth and nematodes. As well as a dose of insecticide when I feel it is needed.

[IronJack]

Sometimes only repeated blasts of the car horn family 12-gauge will clear the driveway.

Fixed it.

[bill1952]

I am the only person that I know that was ever vaccinated for Rocky Mountain Spotted Tick Fever.

That was in SE Pa. in the late 60s and every doctor’s office had some vaccine.

Seems like Lyme disease is the disease of the day now.

[sweetiepiezer]

These people are looking for trouble.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=67160&fr=yvmtf

[spanalot]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://mikehanback.blogs.com/bigbuckzone/images/express_buckhammer_big.jpg&imgrefurl=http://mikehanback.blogs.com/bigbuckzone/2006/04/is_the_20gauge_.html&h=133&w=200&sz=6&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=ijkblPx2oi7M9M:&tbnh=69&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dithaca%2Bdeerslayer%2B20%2Bguage%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8

[TASMANIANRED]

The laws of unintended consequences will not be denied.

[goldstategop]

In my town, the deer wander down from the mountains to feed in the parks. They look cute as buttons. But Lyme Disease is no laughing matter.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Nuc1]

Set up a funnel fence and run the deer through a dipping station. Kill the ticks save the deer. Win-Win solution.

[miliantnutcase]

My dog got lyme disease. Pisses me off because she was on front line.