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To: w1andsodidwe
Please expound on how any of your points cannot be applied to domesticated animals, please.

From the disease perspective it's not a matter of whether you can tame the damned thing. It's a matter of disease control. A deer population, for example, doesn't have veterinarians looking after it, and no disease control methods should something break out. You wouldn't bring a plague victim into your home, would you?

Sheesh. Do your own damned thinking.

21 posted on 09/21/2007 9:29:08 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
A deer population, for example, doesn't have veterinarians looking after it, and no disease control methods should something break out. You wouldn't bring a plague victim into your home, would you?

Thousands of suburban areas are overrun with deer. There are herds of half a dozen to a dozen deer prancing through my yard literally every day. The roads are littered with dead deer killed by cars.

Not only do local governments do little or nothing about this, if you tried to control these populations yourself they'd come arrest you.

We're supposed to believe that turning a blind eye to millions of deer running free through residential areas while coming in with the full force of the law to confiscate the same animal when someone makes a pet of it is a rational course of action to control disease?

Please.

27 posted on 09/21/2007 9:53:44 AM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: r9etb
3. Possibility of disease: if the animal escapes back into the wild, it could take diseases with it. Similarly, bringing a wild animal in among domesticated animals could bring disease into the domesticated population. As an example, brucellosis could be spread in either direction.

Sheesh. Do your own damned thinking.

Deers spread brucellosis to domesticated animals such as cattle. Why are you against treating diseases in deer populations? I just am trying to understand your thinking, I believe that I have a very clear head on this issue and I believe you are insulting me out of desperation.

29 posted on 09/21/2007 10:11:28 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: r9etb

So what’s your solution to keeping the deer out of my beef pasture? Deer are going to be, and are, in contact with our domesticated animals constantly.


34 posted on 09/21/2007 10:40:46 AM PDT by g33k355 ("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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