James Silverton wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>> Many object to eating pet animals. Heck, many object to eating venison
>> because "Bambi is too cute".
>
> Tho as a gardener, I think of deer as horned rats, we have coexisted
> until this dry summer. Then, a trio of cute, spotted, beautiful but very
> thin fawns ate all the leaves off my house plants. I've been putting the
> plants outside for the summer for 20 years without problems. There is
> only one plant, periwinkle or Vinca minor, that deer don't eat in my
> experience.

When the opening day of deer season was one of the most popular holidays
there were enough hunters that deer in the country did not survive to
learn to live in the suburbs. Over time the number of hunters has
declined and the amount of suburbs has expanded.

The deer who did finally wander into the suburbs have experienced a lack
of predators so they are now multiplying like rats. And so they are
eating more and more gardens.

At some point animal control officers will be called in to cull the herd
the same as has happened with coyotes in many areas. What a waste of
venison.