[Leica] White tail deer

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Our farm adjoins a hunt club and as soon as deer season starts we wear
bright orange outside.  All of the shooting scares our wimpy dog and she
tries to hide under our chairs.  The only deer I have seen have been out in
our pasture.  They have never come near the yard or garden.  I thought deer
had eaten our peaches but it turned out to be squirrels.

When we were in Wisconsin, we toured a cherry orchard and the guide showed
us cloth bags tied to some of the trees.  The bags contained soap and he
said they work to keep deer out of the orchard.

I have no problem with hunting for food and using shotguns or rifles or
bows and arrows.  I see no point in automatic weapons or handguns.

Tina


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though I spent great amounts of time at my grandparent's rural homes, and
> lived  on the outskirts of our Louisiana town, I never saw a deer in the
> wild until I was about thirty-five, and that was in Wisconsin.
>
> Now, I see them all the time grazing along I-49, and when in Colorado
> Springs walking across the street right near my daughter's quite urban
> neighborhood.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Chris' comments are right on target.
> >
> >  White Tail Deer are incredibly overpopulated in Indiana, and in the last
> > few years, they
> > have begun to be seen in the large cities like Fort Wayne. I nearly hit
> > one with my car that jumped out into the road in a residential
> > neighborhood in the city last week! This was in a city of 250,000 people,
> > not a rural area!
> > - - - -
> > Those beautiful white tailed deer are 150 lb. rats. They consume just
> > about everything that grows and have dramatically changed the
> > landscape.They carry and spread Lyme disease, a crippling ailment which
> has
> > reached endemic proportions in the Northeast. Their number has multiplied
> > dramatically. We have five sleeping in our back yard. Every time we leave
> > the house we have to chase a few away from our garden. If you look at my
> > LUG gallery site you will see almost as many pictures of deer as you will
> > of flowers.
> >
> > In the Hudson Valley there are now more deer than when the land belonged
> > to the Indians. They live on the edge of the woods, feeding in open
> areas.
> > The main reason for the growth in numbers is that venison is no longer
> > regarded as a necessary food source. Deer are no longer hunted as in the
> > past and restrictive laws keep the hunting season very short. Wolves and
> > bears, their natural predators have been largely eliminated. That and the
> > Disney movie "Bambi" which led a entire generation to think of deer as
> > benign, almost decorative, animals. The greatest predator of deer is now
> > the automobile. Rural highways are punctuated with deer carcasses and
> > smashed cars. Eat more venison. - Eat.
> > Larry Z
> >
> >
> >
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>
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