Posted on 07/28/2007 5:04:07 PM PDT by Sybeck1
Tree rats are just as bad. I kill everyone I can get my sites on.
I have heard that there are states that will allow a farmer to kill deer that are destroying crops, but he’s not allowed to process it once he kills it. In fact, no one’s allowed to have it.
What a waste.
I wonder if there is such a requirement in Tenn.
Bill the libs for the testing...Someone has to be happy to have a meal of something less than veal.
Since deer aren't human wouldn't it be "indeerane"?
Naah, just "inane"... /grin
Agreed, if he was able to go out and kill forty deer with a shotgun, there definitely were too many deer.
No such thing! My sister and brother-in-law have a summer home in northern michigan in a very upscale area and they have literally lost thousands of dollars of landscaping due to the dear population which can not be hunted in that resort area. As a result, he has put up motion detectors around the house which emit a high pitch sound, he has installed an electric fence around select plantings, and all this hasn't done one damn thing to deter these antlered rats.........
And for the record, here in Michigan there are over 60,000 deer/vehicle accidents a year and the numbers are increasing.........
The damn things are everywhere........Just like all those products that you can spray on your plants to deter rabbits, none of that crap works because they don't have taste buds..........
Much ado about nothing. The excessive deer population is a problem and at least someone is trying to take care of the situation. The coyote population is also a real problem in this area. The farmers in my area don’t even plant some fields because if they do, the yield is sparse do to the damage done by the deer.
Well-managed hunting provides for a sensible thinning of the herd...this is ham-handed game management at its bureaucratic worst.
The Walt Disney Bambi effect. People don’t look on deer as pests but as noble creatures of the forest. Meanwhile they multiply with no natural controls and either starve or destroy crops.
Bambi must die!
One guy shooting 40 deer tells me those folks have a problem and it ain't with the shooter...........
“Deer now are a nuisance in some areas. Same with Nonmigratory Canadian Geese.”
My town had a canadian geese problem. They were everywhere destroying lawns, golf courses and ruining car finishes with that crap of theirs.
My town tried to get rid of the canadian geese. We had horns that went off every couple of minutes. People complained. We destroyed the eggs. People complained. We implemented nazi tactics and put them in trucks and gassed them. People complained. We sprayed lawns and put mesh over the water on golf courses so they couldn’t land. People complained.
Then everyone came in and complained that there were canadian geese all over the place and we should do something.
I just laughed.
boy, the caption for the Kerry-Edwards picture should have Edwards saying “My butt is really sore”...
Deer are pests, with a bone structure like Paris Hilton. Wild pigs are pests too, but with a bone structure more like Rosie O’Donnell.
But pigs are made of tasty spam...
Usually food banks won’t take wild animals. Parasites would make them liable.
This is due to Americans being weaned away from a hunting culture to one dependent on grocery stores. I recall rifles regularly lined up along the back wall of the church for the after-service group hunts. Now most Americans are so wussified they blanch at the very idea of “killing Bambi”.
Not enough people are hunting to keep the deer population down - especially since their natural predators have been practically wiped out. We have the responsibility to make up for those predators absence.
Corn oil on eggs, works every time.
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