Posted on 01/19/2014 7:46:14 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
From New York to California, local governments are spending taxpayer dollars to sterilize female deer, but critics say the approach is a misguided, ineffective and “incredibly expensive” approach to thinning out the herds that has become a suburban scourge.
While some communities have used lethal means to curb the exploding population of deer, which roam backyards, destroy gardens and wander into traffic, others have taken what they see as a more humane approach — tranquilizing female deer and removing their ovaries.
Average costs are about $1,200 per deer, according to a 2011 report by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that did not recommend such programs.
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Noooo!!
Collectivists never choose the simple obvious solution. It’s too simple and obvious, and relies on independently thinking people.
How about shooting the does with a bullet or arrow, butchering it, and eating the meat?
Why not cut off the bucks oo's since he can impregnate many. And I'm sure it's cheaper.
Then again....imagine stocking our local food centers with fresh deer kill.
Oh...common sense...sorry
On average a .308 Schirroco bullet cost only $1.35 and will put food on the table.
One China policy? /s
LOL
Wow, someone actually thinks it’s better to sterilize them than to kill them, butcher them, and feed people.
If only old ranchers were in charge of our government! Urban dwellers aren’t fit to run the country because they have no common sense when it comes to the realities of dealing with nature, both animal and human.
Just think how lucky the buck who doesn’t get treated will feel. Like a kid in a candy store. I’d love to be the last man standing. I’d be very busy.
Our outer-city neighborhood is surrounded on all sides by major highways with small pockets of wooded areas. We also have deer roaming the hood. If you discount the fact they occasionally treat our flowers and bushes as a Quincy’s salad bar, and their scent gives our dog something to sniff at...I don’t mind them being around. They’re kind of majestic, and a good reminder of “nature”. If we were growing our own food, I’m sure it would be a different story. I also can’t help but feel like, one day... they may be supper.
I saw a PBS show on this the other day — we now have 40 million deer in a country that used to only have 1 million.
The herds should be culled 20 times atleast for everyone’s sake.
A .22 to the noggin will also work.
“Years ago a similar program to use birth control on coyotes was proposed in South Dakota. At a meeting with wildlife officials one old rancher commented the problem was the coyotes were eating his calves not screwing them.”
LOL!
Several years ago I read of a deer removal company that would sign a contract (quietly so as not to upset the old ladies)with a city.
Then, after dark they would quietly come in with silenced low velocity, high caliber rifles and with infrared optical sights, and eliminate the deer.
They loaded the deer in their truck with butchering facilities on board and then take the processed deer to a local homeless shelter.
And the little old ladies in town never found out why all those deer decided not to come around anymore.
You get those kinds of numbers, you get ticks and fleas carrying disease. Way to many of them. The doo-gooders will create a problem similar to those in the forests that forbid clearing the undergrowth causing super heated fires.
Well, they are sure spending time and money taking care of this basically suburban ‘problem’.
Same ‘problem’ exists in urban areas with two legged animals overriding the land and becoming nuisances and pests..
Like the sign at the National Parks warns...
Don’t feed the animals as they get dependent on you and eventually won’t fend for themselves.
The National Park Service has the ‘right’ idea
Too bad HHS doesn’t have the same policy when it comes to food stamps, welfare, and all the other CRUTCH policies we use to keep the population in tow.
SO NPS, if it ‘works’ for HHS, try feeding the wild life and building them shelters and pick their food for them.
Heck we got packs of mountain coydogs running around at midnight that cull the deer herd real nicely. ++Plus it keeps the coydogs away from the barns.
I don’t know why they won’t relocate some of the dog packs running wild in Detroit. What could go wrong?
We’ve got a goose problem in our town (actually outside of the town where they can be culled daily) and I suggested selling permits to hunt them. They are NOT migratory birds, according to the Feds because they never leave. If you visit this lake in summer, you slip, fall on the goose shit and it stinks to high heaven. A**holes feed them and they’ll chase any human for popcorn, bread, Doritos or whatever. The reason the County people don’t want to sell permits? “People might get upset seeing these birds get shot.” But they’ll charge us to dredge the lake to get the goose poop out. Somebody needs to get some balls.
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