Rock Chick:

I reccomend to you the Society of Saint Hubert, an international association of professional game keepers: people who certainly understand the situation better than you or I do. One of the things members are committed to doing is to take the place of the predators missing from the local environment. You completely missed the point about the deer, didn't you? Without predation (hunters) the booming deer population destroys it's habitat, starving the deer and all the other creatures they share a habitat with. The point is that there must be a BALANCE. Now I'd better stop before I get abusive.