I gave up having a garden, they are eating my landscaping, and getting hit in front of the house with depressing regularity. When they are hit, they are given to people on a waiting list.
I hope the anti-hunters are happy.
Because of the closeness to the street and a nearby conservation area, I cannot harvest venison, that my wife dearly loves....though a brother-in-law bow hunter has been making quiet propositions to me about dawn visits......
Despite this abundance we have new urban people moving in who put those fiberglass deer statues on their lawns..while nearby, deer graze in broad daylight on the grounds of a local college, and I surprise them when I open the front door.
It was a thrill to see them the first time, twenty years ago. Now they are like locusts.