Akenatan, you have an agenda that isn't allowing you to hear what anyone else is saying. You're the one who is doing the "brushing aside," and belittling well-constructed arguments.

You also don't seem to understand that it really doesn't matter if the deer are tame or not. They're deer and they're fair game. Given your argument, it is easy to imagine an animal rights strategy that would place tame deer off limits then make an effort to tame all of them. I lived in the country every summer, and my father who was a hunter didn't tame the local deer. He made a point of chasing them off if they wandered into the yard. The point? Even if they preferred the vacinity of humans THEY WERE STILL FAIR GAME. If they weren't bright enough to stay away, they were the first ones bagged when the season opened. Most deer usually figure out when it's time to head for high ground. If people have been feeding the deer, more shame on them, because they can't have it both ways--the deer are either wild and more likely to survive, or they're lured by food and easier to see from the kitchen window every morning and evening. But that behavior has a price.

So what is your agenda? Have you been feeding the deer? Is it coming home to roost, so to speak?

SRS