Deer to spare

[BJL]

Who wants to become a consultant and get paid $180 an hour to hunt?

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedst ... d=14849852

The war on Bambi

Nov 12th 2009 | ST LOUIS
From The Economist print edition
Taking back the gardens

AP Coping with a winsome problem

IN JUNE 76-year-old Dorothy Richardson of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, discovered a fawn nestled in her garden. She picked up a shovel and beat it to death. It was one more battle in a war being waged from coast to coast.

As humans spread into once-rural areas, deer learned to adapt. With few or no natural predators, and thanks to the advent of hunting bans in developed areas, they thrived. There are an estimated 30m deer in America now, more than there were a century ago. The growing herds in urban and suburban areas have sparked a number of programmes to control the animals, not without controversy among humans.

In Town and Country, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, the problem has reached a dire stage. The community suffers, on average, a collision a week between a deer and a car, and the animals are scoffing plants of all kinds in yards and gardens. After a series of heated hearings the city has decided to spend $150,000 on getting sharpshooters to kill 100 deer and veterinarians to sterilise another 100. The city has already tried other methods including paying for the relocation of deer, an ineffective tactic (the deer just came back) that has now been outlawed. The suburb has also banned people from feeding the deer, which has upset residents who like them.

Other communities are following Town and Country’s example; some are trying contraception, while others are trying to kill the deer with bows and arrows. The culls are provoking an angry reaction in places. In Shawnee Mission, Kansas, a part of metropolitan Kansas City, the city plans to kill three-quarters of the area’s deer, paying outside consultants $185 an hour and donating the venison to food banks. Animal-rights activists recently blocked the entrance to a park with a sign saying “Death Park, Closed for Cruelty.” The leader of the group earlier walked into park headquarters and deposited a severed deer head on the counter. In the recently-completed statewide urban deer hunting season Missouri’s Department of Conservation reported more than 1,200 kills.

Back in Euclid Mrs Richardson pleaded no contest to one count of cruelty and was fined $500 and given 80 hours of community service. But as the deer numbers mount, critics are wondering whether there is much to choose between her method of animal control or the organised harvesting in Town and Country.v

[snIPer]

Thats the very same thing thats going to happen here soon.
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[nagarifle]

Thats the very same thing thats going to happen here soon.
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not in my neck of the woods we will not allow it.

[hvj1]

DITTO Nagarifle.

[nagarifle]

this came in my local rag
http://www.nagalandpost.com/ShowStory.a ... ui%2f6I%3d

wild boars and samba are damaging crops so the village council has made it a open season on wild boars.

looks like open season on wild boars to me. must get the old 3006 oiled up.

[dev]

Beating a fawn to death...what a sick psycho. I don't care what the deer population is...this act is sick.
Deer in the USA have always been a problem but killing them this way really makes me question who the animal is.

Dev

[MoA]

The booming deer population is an issue in many parts of the world.
Ironically the Muntjac, which is a highly endangered species in India, is classified as vermin in the UK.
On Maniland Europe, hunting remains popular, but in decline. Hence in some parts wild boar are now becoming a problem.

Killing a fawn with a shovel, somehow doesnt seem right.

[nagarifle]

yes but with the Muntjac is open season year round shoot on sight cook in oven

do agree with humane killing and not as per the above article.

[tirths]

Yes, Breed, hunt and eat. All purpose solved
Hunt and leave them for vulture (now days they are also not visible) or dogs has no meaning. In south,and many parts of india there are people to crow therefore hunting crow is pleasure

[shooter]

Beating a fawn to death...what a sick psycho. I don't care what the deer population is...this act is sick.
Deer in the USA have always been a problem but killing them this way really makes me question who the animal is.

Dev

[Sakobav]

Economist bias is so evident off all the stories they highlighted (sic) 76 old person killing a fawn sad as it its probably one of kind accident. How about all those that die on highway or cause fatal accidents. US has pretty decent hunting laws in majority of the states including Ohio. Euclid and other Cleveland suburbs have lot of wide open spaces and parks. Its common for deer to make it such sanctuaries and its an ongoing issue here about hunting take NJ suburbs the same issue.

[shooter]

I agree with Ngrewal but in the UK the person would be tried Irrespective of circumstances for animal cruelty.