BS: Deer.....

Subject: RE: BS: Deer.....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Mar 04 - 09:49 AM

We have similar problems in Scotland with Roe deer eating our gardens, but the biggest problem is the Red deer population. There is an organisation called The Red Deer Commission, which conducts a census, and culls if necessary when numbers get too high. However they rely on figure supplied by sporting estates, which rely on the income from hunters to keep them solvent. So do you think they are going to list every last animal on their property, so's the commission can say, 'you've got too many'? Of course they won't! So numbers are too high, many are killed on the road, [and cause the death of some drivers] while the remainder are in poor condition, because there's not enough natural grazing to go round. So as long as sporting estates are valued on the basis of how many stags they produce in a shooting season, the lies will go on.
Second rant over
John

Subject: BS: Deer.....
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Mar 04 - 09:33 AM

Well, gol danged...

What's with all these danged deer, anyway. They're everywere you look. At the turn of the century there were only about 50,000 of the critters left. Hey, that's plenty, as far as I'm concerned. Now there's 50,000 per acre and there're populatin' faster than cockroachs in a South Richmond hosing project... Every day I drive to Leesburg, I see at least two dead ones on the side of the road and a pack/flock/bunch of the idiots lined up waiting their turn at *Rt 9 Roulette*.....

Then I come home and look out at the gardens that I spend so much money and time on and they're munching away on Rhodo buds that I've sprayed Bobex/DeerOff/LiquidFence on like they are popcorn at an afternoon kids matinee'...

Hey, I like Bambi as much as the next deer hater but, hey, why do we have to have one for every danged man, woman and child????...

Like I said, 50,000 is plenty...

Deer rant over...

Bobert