Noooo!!
Collectivists never choose the simple obvious solution. It’s too simple and obvious, and relies on independently thinking people.
How about shooting the does with a bullet or arrow, butchering it, and eating the meat?
Why not cut off the bucks oo's since he can impregnate many. And I'm sure it's cheaper.
Then again....imagine stocking our local food centers with fresh deer kill.
Oh...common sense...sorry
On average a .308 Schirroco bullet cost only $1.35 and will put food on the table.
Wow, someone actually thinks it’s better to sterilize them than to kill them, butcher them, and feed people.
If only old ranchers were in charge of our government! Urban dwellers aren’t fit to run the country because they have no common sense when it comes to the realities of dealing with nature, both animal and human.
Our outer-city neighborhood is surrounded on all sides by major highways with small pockets of wooded areas. We also have deer roaming the hood. If you discount the fact they occasionally treat our flowers and bushes as a Quincy’s salad bar, and their scent gives our dog something to sniff at...I don’t mind them being around. They’re kind of majestic, and a good reminder of “nature”. If we were growing our own food, I’m sure it would be a different story. I also can’t help but feel like, one day... they may be supper.
I saw a PBS show on this the other day — we now have 40 million deer in a country that used to only have 1 million.
The herds should be culled 20 times atleast for everyone’s sake.
Several years ago I read of a deer removal company that would sign a contract (quietly so as not to upset the old ladies)with a city.
Then, after dark they would quietly come in with silenced low velocity, high caliber rifles and with infrared optical sights, and eliminate the deer.
They loaded the deer in their truck with butchering facilities on board and then take the processed deer to a local homeless shelter.
And the little old ladies in town never found out why all those deer decided not to come around anymore.
Well, they are sure spending time and money taking care of this basically suburban ‘problem’.
Same ‘problem’ exists in urban areas with two legged animals overriding the land and becoming nuisances and pests..
Like the sign at the National Parks warns...
Don’t feed the animals as they get dependent on you and eventually won’t fend for themselves.
The National Park Service has the ‘right’ idea
Too bad HHS doesn’t have the same policy when it comes to food stamps, welfare, and all the other CRUTCH policies we use to keep the population in tow.
SO NPS, if it ‘works’ for HHS, try feeding the wild life and building them shelters and pick their food for them.
Heck we got packs of mountain coydogs running around at midnight that cull the deer herd real nicely. ++Plus it keeps the coydogs away from the barns.
We’ve got a goose problem in our town (actually outside of the town where they can be culled daily) and I suggested selling permits to hunt them. They are NOT migratory birds, according to the Feds because they never leave. If you visit this lake in summer, you slip, fall on the goose shit and it stinks to high heaven. A**holes feed them and they’ll chase any human for popcorn, bread, Doritos or whatever. The reason the County people don’t want to sell permits? “People might get upset seeing these birds get shot.” But they’ll charge us to dredge the lake to get the goose poop out. Somebody needs to get some balls.
Average cost of one round of ammo 50 cents. :-)
I'm in the exurbs of Charlotte. There are substantial areas of dense woods, providing cover for deer, where they sleep, breed, and bear and protect their young.
But dense woods alone aren't enough, because little food grows under a forest canopy. So deer are drawn to the edges of woodlands, where young, edible growth takes place, or, better yet as far as the deer are concerned, there are crops or azaleas (yum) landed by humans. Of course, these forest edges explain why there are so many unfortunate deer-vehicle interactions: the Department of Transportation cuts a swath through the woods for the construction of a new highway, and in so doing creates more forest "edges" where food grows convenient to hiding areas.
And then, there are creeks and ponds -- a plethora of then hereabouts. Water is necessary for them, obviously, and the creek beds become deer highways, for escaping harm, or moving on to another food source.
On top of that, I live in an incorporated town which prohibits hunting. I am convinced that the deer have figured this out. There has been some talk of permitting bow hunting, but nothing has come of it. Weddington is a town in name only (TINO?); with the exception of one small retail center, it's a combination of large-lot (1 to 3 acres) residential, and open, as yet undeveloped, land, some of which is farmed, and some of which just sits there looking pretty.
So, we have deer. A lot of them. It is not uncommon to see a half-dozen or more wandering through my neighborhood -- most often seen at dawn or dusk, but sometimes in broad daylight (see my home page for a pic of a doe I took from inside my house).
I rather like having the deer around, but then I don't tend to worry about them eating my hydrangeas. I actually planted "deer mix" over my septic field, and it seems to be popular.
These guys can help. They are my neighbors.
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I live in the country, not a ‘burb-but if there is a bad/dry year and the game count shows too many deer, you can get extra doe tags. Over-population is a bad thing, resulting in sickly animals that spread disease, and culling staves it off. This nonsense of sterilizing deer might make the townies feel good, but it is not sensible or natural. They ranch deer in some parts of Europe-but not here, because of the dollars made by the big hunting concerns-really dumb...
Venison is an all-natural, healthy food-much better than store-bought feed lot beef, which has high levels of hormones, antibiotics, fat and God-knows-what-else. I buy local grass-fed beef, but I hunt for my own venison when I have the opportunity, and prefer the taste.
Coyotes and resident mountain lions do a good job of making dinner of the sick and inferior deer out here, but I suppose in the ‘burbs the presence of lots of high fences and the absence of predators precludes natural selection.
Game fencing is cheap enough, and keeps deer out of my food garden and other places they don’t need to go into...
It’s gotten so bad that we even tell them where to cross the roads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell, we're well on our way to that here in Idaho.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
My old city wasted a fortune trying to put the geese that plagued the parks on birth control. When sanity set in and they hired some one to start shooting them and donating them to the homeless shelter the libs went berserk.