<p>For five years, Molly Turkewitz has waged war against deer in her Montgomery County neighborhood.</p>
<p>The Brookeville teaching assistant has planted strong-smelling deodorant soap in trees and laced the soil with human hair and blood-meal fertilizer. She has shrouded shrubs in nylon netting and swathed tree trunks with sheets of plastic. But nothing has chased the deer from her back yard, where they have nibbled the bushes into poodle-size topiary.</p>
<p>"When we moved in, I loved deer," said Turkewitz, 46. "I do not feel that way anymore."</p>