[Gorzaloon]

As things have been built up around me, we have an infestation of hungry, scrawny deer.

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.

[palmer]

My bow hunter friend has made similar propositions to me and I will probably take him up on it. It's safe, quiet, and very lethal in the right hands.

Just make sure he is good, you don't want to end up with a dying deer with an arrow stuck in it and yuppies caressing it.

[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?