Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Indiana, they're vermin pure and simple. I've hit two of them with my car over the years because the idiotic creatures wait till a car is too close to stop, then they leap onto the road in front of you. One of them actually jumped onto the road and slammed into the side of my car! They're so overpopulated now that we're beginning to see them in the middle of this city of 250,000. That was unheard of when I was young, when deer populations were better controlled. The state's finally allowing more hunting to thin the herds because the overpopulation is actually beginning to hurt the deer because there's not enough food for them all. We're seeing deer with stunted growth because of overpopulation. Some of the herds have as many as 100 of them traveling together. A group like that can destroy a farm in hours. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-486-2581 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 7/11/11 3:32 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I'm for the deer! For such overtly over the top gorgeous gentle critters as > deer for there to be a controversy about it then I don't know. > Normally the only thing I don't tolerate is intolerance. But when it comes > to animals of any kind then its big time. > Especially deer for peets sake! What's wrong with you people!!?!??! > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:35:52 -0700 (GMT-07:00) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Down with Bambi. NOW: GO BAMBI GO!!!!!! ;-) >> >> Dr. Ted Grant wrote: >> >>> I at one time would get absolutely furious about them eating off a couple >>> hundred dollars of newly planted flowers or sun flowers coming up >>> beautifully about two feet high, only to come out one morning to find the >>> bud and about a foot of the stock gone! End of sun flower season! :-( A >>> rant >>> ensued! Finally I gave up and figured if you can't beat the ...! Join >>> them >>> and figure out how to move them along to the neighbours yard or farther >>> along the street. :-) >>> >>> Hence my reading about deer and the type of flowers they rarely eat. And >>> discussion with the local flower growing companies for advice! Now better >>> use of false flowers that make a major difference. >> >> As far as I'm concerned out-smarting them like this is the best way to >> deal >> with them. >> >>> By the same token where would you rather live? In a condo right in the >>> heart >>> of the noise blown city? Where the only "wild life" you encounter are the >>> drunks and druggies or whatever other low life? Or sort of on the out >>> skirts >>> of town where once in awhile some of the critter beauties of Mother >>> Nature >>> quietly saunter through your yard, stop for a bite here and there and >>> move >>> on? >>> >>> I need not tell you my preference! :-) >> >> Nor mine :) I'll take the flower-eating deer any day. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information