Posted on 04/08/2005 6:00:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing
If it's spring in Mt. Lebanon, it must be time for the deer to devour Melissa Evans' tulips.
"I've never seen them in bloom because deer gobble them up before they are much more than a bud," said Evans, who woke up recently to find the posies at her Seminole Drive home munched to nothing for the third spring in a row.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
More deer are killed by motorists here in Pa. than by hunters.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
I definitely wouldn't have minded if one of those deer wound up in my freezer.
I was checking pittsburghlive.com but I couldn't find the story. Probably too old.
Don't do it! Dogs and cats will both drink antifreeze, and it's a pretty nasty death, destroying the kidneys.
Mark
I wish that the people that are against hunting deer, could experience the thrill of hitting deer with their vehicles. I personally prefer a more humane method of thinning the deer population.
I'm pretty sure that it's the same case in MO as well.
I was watching a public access show put on by the MO department of conservation, talking about the deer population problem out here. They've actually had to open archery seasons in the public parks, near residential areas!
The DoC says that a square mile can support a healthy deer population of about 60-70 deer. At one of the parks, they estimate that there are over 190 deer per square mile. I find that hard to belive, but that's what they said... Three times a "healthy" population level.
Come rut, it won't be unusual to see 3 or 4 dead deer by the side of the highway every day both to and from work, and it's only a 14 mile drive, each way.
Mark
Where I live, they apparently researched what flowers are not deer attractive and plant those. The other thing they do is plant small posies that they then cover with a mesh so they can get sun and water but the deer can't get their snout into it without getting a faceful or mesh.
Doesn't help the deer population issue (plenty other stuff for them to munch on) but it does keep your garden intact.
Paging Willie Green...any comments about these deer in the Pittsburgh neck of the woods?
I think the animal pee you are looking for is Tiger, have read that it really works. But remember a deers got to make a living somewhere. I watch them in my hay field's all the time, some guy ask me how I put up with that, my answer, I wasn't as poor as him, I could afford to feed my cows and the deer too. Besides I love deer jerky.
We counted 18 deer in our NJ backyard once. They ate everything. The nursery people would tell us a fool proof shrub we could buy and the deer would eat it.
Try the Plotsaver around your flowers/veggies.
www.messinawildlife.com/plotsaverplus.shtml
It works.
Sako
Use a PlotSaver around your veggies/flowers.
http://www.messinawildlife.com/plotsaver.shtml
It works.
Sako
We have moose here. They lurk in wait until the cabbages are ready for harvest and they come in just before the gardener arrives with his knife and bucket. Clean, bare ground just like nothing was ever there. Every plant. They love cabbage.
We have plenty of hunting in our area, but not within town borders. As to the hypothetical method I passed along (which, as I said, I would never actually employ myself), I would no more worry about how the cervid vermin died than I would how a rat died. As to local pets, if my neighbors' dogs and cats are on my property, I wouldn't feel a bit bad if they got into something that didn't agree with them.
Here in Arkansas if your having trouble with deer in your garden you can call Game & Fish and the will come out and take a look at property to see damage to your garden. Nine times out of ten they will give you permission to shoot the deer. You might try calling the G&F in your state.
I doubt seriously that G&F in Pittsburgh is anywhere near so enlightened ...
The Pissburgh Municipal government approach will be to hire government workers to conduct a feasibility study to determine the efficacy of humane deer sterilization techniques. Five years later, a 3 deer pilot program conducted in association with the Humane Society and PETA will commence. Eleven years and 47 million dollars later, they will release the results. It will show that deer were here first and any attempt to stop deer from consuming tulips is a violation of municipal code.
They closed down entire Forest Preserves for 2 months so this one guy could go in and shoot 'em.
Any guess what he charged for his 'services'?
$500.00 a head. That's right. Five Hundred American Dollars per deer. Paid for by the taxpayers of my County.
I figure this guys retired by now, and we still have those rats with hooves everywhere.
No, I don't live in a rural area. I'm exactly 40 miles from downtown Chicago!
I'm going to show up at the next FP Board meeting and offer to do the 'work' for half the price, and I'll donate 90% of the meat to local homeless shelters.
L
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