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2004-12-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Help the Environment, Kill Lots More Deer.... Please!

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Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-01 1:40:33 PM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I live 30 miles north of NYC and I see at least 1/2 dozen deer on my drive home every night. I also see deer in the woods behind my house pretty frequently. While I do see wild turkeys now and then, they are only in groups of 2 or 3. They don't destroy cars when they get hit like some deer do. White tails delenda est!

Posted by Tibor 2004-12-01 4:43:38 PM|| 2004-12-01 4:43:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Today, Pennsylvania has an estimated 1.6 million whitetails."

We seem to be Ground Zero for these damned overgrown, hooved rats. They are EVERYWHERE: in the fields, on the roads, in backyards and gardens, and one time, even on my porch. Ten years ago the deer population in PA was about 850,000 and the situation was deemed an emergency; now it's almost twice that.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-12-01 4:57:22 PM|| 2004-12-01 4:57:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It is called poaching. It works really well too at control too. Just get yourself a 22 magnum and get good at head shots up close and personal. Hillbilly welfare, side hill salmon, wild goat meat. Shoot does without young. Since you don't have natural wild preadators you have to be the preadator. QED.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-01 5:13:07 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-01 5:13:07 PM|| Front Page Top

SHEBAÂ® With Venison in Meaty Juices Food for Cats

RECCOMMENDED BY MARTIN WHITESHOES, CHAMPION MOUSER OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

Posted by BigEd 2004-12-01 6:32:23 PM|| 2004-12-01 6:32:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Send in the Mountain Lions!

Posted by Charles 2004-12-01 6:41:35 PM|| 2004-12-01 6:41:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I've often wondered why they don't make mouse-flavored catfood, myself...

Posted by Fred 2004-12-01 8:24:29 PM|| 2004-12-01 8:24:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred, why would they if cats can have the real things? And squirrels and snakes.

SPoD, spot on.

Posted by Conanista 2004-12-01 8:56:48 PM|| 2004-12-01 8:56:48 PM|| Front Page Top

..wildflowers devoured as soon as the buds opened, few bushes except Chinese/Bush honeysuckle and a few other exotic invaders. We only had a 6-deer herd living in the preserve, and coyotes had been seen there by some of the schoolâs neighbors.

Not to mention stuff that happens off preserves, such as bent autmobile front ends, trashed motorcycles, and road-rashed skin....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-01 9:32:31 PM|| 2004-12-01 9:32:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 great - mouse flavored cat food? They'd be dragging it in the bedroom so proud of what they killed...

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-01 10:25:35 PM|| 2004-12-01 10:25:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Frank, your cat (or more) is not well behaved. My cats at least leave it on the mat of the front door, neatly stacked. They know not to bring it in. Yes, it often looks like some kill-the-mouses jihad is going on, the heads separated from bodies (if it is a squirrel, then head and tail is what's left).

Fortunately my postie is a brave woman--rural area--so she may have to butcher a deer or a bear once a while.

Oh, the snakes? They are sorta cat gummi bears.

Have you seen a 5 lb rat? Neither did I until recently. Not sure which of my critters did the kill, but it was a mother of all mothaf..ing rats!

Posted by Conanista 2004-12-01 11:58:34 PM|| 2004-12-01 11:58:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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