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For animal lovers...
On 5/4/2012 8:19 AM, BAR wrote:
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On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:32:41 -0400, X ` Man
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On 5/3/12 8:25 PM, Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:44:24 -0400, X `
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I live just outside Des Moines, and the local deer are so numerous as
to be catagorized as vermin. I lost an auto to one. They cross my lawn
on a daily basis. It would be great if hunters would kill vast numbers
of them.
Casady
Typically, the problem you describe is the result of man encroaching on
the natural habit of woodland critters and decimating it. So, we take
away the land on which critters live, eat, and breathe, and then we
shoot them.
There are significantly more deer in the suburbs than there ever have
been but the residents would not tolerate repopulating the predators
necessary for natural control. It turns out white tail deer are very
well adapted to suburban living. I have even seen them on the
Whitehurst Freeway in downtown DC.
Can you imagine the howl people would put up if we dumped a couple
dozen cougars around the beltway and in Rock Creek Park?
I doubt they would even tolerate that down in rural Calvert County.
(yet they did it near where I live here in SW Florida)
The fox take care of the rodent population, cats are rodents in my book.
This is the Gods honest truth.
I watched a fox chase a cat and tree him/her, in my back yard.
After a period of time, 15-30 minutes as I recall, with the fox still
patiently waiting at the base of the tree, the cat climbed down the
tree, swatted the fox in the nose, and ran off. The bewildered fox
didn't give chase.
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