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[–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Imagine being a deer and having no concept of property rights and just being like damn humans need to chill the fuck out.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    That deer went through some shit in that year, just going off the change in spelling

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Its that CWD, they need predators around so they don't have to suffer horrible deaths by disease and starvation and we don't have to suffer their ticks.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    That CWD is one of the main reasons I haven't filled a tag in a few years. Makes me nervous.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It's a real tricky problem. In most places, humans (via hunting, but also car) are the only predators for deer, so if humans stop hunting them, the problem only gets worse.

    The solution is also not reintroducing predators like some of the anti-hunting crowd would have you believe: you aren't going to get a stable wolf pack in suburban Pennsylvania.

    The best solution is probably a radical shift in hunting legislation. Many regulations exist simply to make hunting more difficult. Some regulations, like the existence of hunting seasons were useful before technology to monitor populations really existed, but now we have trail cams, aerial surveys, harvest reporting on phone apps, etc.

    It's easier to take a rifle and go harvest a deer in supposedly gun-averse Australia than it is in most of the places people live in America.

    We also need easy, free CWD testing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Where I live, you can submit tissue and teeth for testing, or the entire head. It made me laugh because one of the drop boxes (must smell absolutely lovely after a short time) is right across the parking lot of a playground. I just imagine traumatizing a bunch of children trying to get my deer tested.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I live somewhere that "doesnt have cwd" despite confirmed cases right across a geographically meaningless border. A sickly, relatively young deer dropped dead with no signs of trauma last summer on my street. I tried to report it to see if I could have it tested, and I was given contact info for the state biologist. I reached out, but they never got back to me.

    I guess there's no confirmed cases if you don't confirm cases.

    Does it cost money for you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The main predator of deer where I used to live was automobiles. The speed limit was 25mph through the whole city (up to 55mph on the road to the next cities) though, so often the deer lived with fucked up injuries afterwards. Like the other comment, people were (justifiably) afraid to hunt and use their tags on potentially diseased deer

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    For some reason my county is like a black hole for deer with a way lower deer population density than not only the surrounding area but also the entire state. Never seen evidence of them nor rabbits on the property.

    That said, while we don’t have those specific nibblers of things we might have liked to eat…

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I dont fence, I electic fence. Deer get zapped and learn to fear thin shiny wires. Its worked very well for me for many years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This summer I've had very good success using these dried blood repellent pods keeping the deer away from the shrubbery. I still fencing around the vegetable garden but the deer damage on the rest of the property is WAY down.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Never stops the absolute bottomless pit assholes in my garden

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Dear Deer stealing my vegetables from my vege garden, Thank you for supplying the very tasty venison steaks, roasts and sausages for the next three months.

    I love venison!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    last time I did this it pissed off the neighbors. evidently "shoot first ask questions later" is not an appropriate response to a creature stealing your vegetables.

    turns out, it was their kid in a fursuit. luckily for him there was a whole lot of wiremesh and padding in the head.

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