In the Suburbs, What to Do About a Deer

Washington Post ^ | September 12, 2002 | Bob Levey

[SJackson]

It was a Friday evening, and Cynthia Fain was off to do an errand. As she came out of her apartment complex in Gaithersburg, "I saw a deer lying on the side of the road," Cynthia says. "I realized he had just been hit by a motorist."

Cynthia approached the obviously dying animal "to see what help I could offer." Meanwhile, a security guard called Montgomery County police, and a crowd (including several children) began to gather.

"I sat on the curb and stroked the deer's head," Cynthia writes. "He responded by opening his eyes and putting his head in my hands. . . . I wished that everyone could feel what I felt at that moment."

One man very clearly did not.

Even though the deer was not yet dead, the man told the crowd that he would "take care of it." Cynthia and the security guard asked him what he meant. He said he would drag the deer off to a grassy patch nearby and butcher it.

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[Protagoras]

LOL, I don't think so son, back to your video games.

[Cobra Scott]

Your implication is that overhunting has been substituted for management; when in reality, game management and hunting have been partners since the late 19th century. In fact, the disappearance of the passenger pigeon actually led to these concerns, when it was thought that the species suffered exctinction solely from being hunted to the last bird.

If I have misunderstood your implications, I apologize.

[N. Theknow]

I saw some mail order catalog a year or so ago that had coyote urine in it for use as a deer repellant. Do you know if that would work, or would it just attract coyotes?

[Protagoras]

If I have misunderstood your implications, I apologize.

Apology Accepted.

[Gorzaloon]

I saw some mail order catalog a year or so ago that had coyote urine in it for use as a deer repellant. Do you know if that would work, or would it just attract coyotes

I do not know, but we ALSO are having trouble with coyotes, who have come back. Sad to say, my neighbor's fat cat seems to be missing......

So I would not tempt fate, myself!