Arlington County is starting to shoot the deer

[Anonymous]

It's not just about them starving they'll be hit my cars and also crowd out other populations. So the county feeding them could lead to other serious problems. Even kept curated populations where the deer are essentially livestock have to cull.

It's the humane option to shoot them rather than have them suffer.

[Anonymous]

I hate the thought of living creatures suffering from being shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate the thought of living creatures suffering from being shot.

I feel the same way about yeast. I can't eat bread or drink beer any more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate the thought of living creatures suffering from being shot.

In a truly natural environment, they would be taken down as prey by wolves or mountain lions. Would you rather we have those in the woods behind your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are too many deer, ALL the deer will die.

This is what some do not grasp. There are too many deer in Arlington for the available food and not enough natural predators to keep the ecosystem in balance. Reducing the deer herd size to a level that keeps the ecosystem in balance is important.

No evidence provided that is the case in Arlington. It's all for the $$$$ for the stupid twigs they plant in wire enclosures after defoliating huge areas in the name of conservation.

You are a special kind of stupid.

[Anonymous]

I visit friends in NJ where the deer population has grown significantly. Groups of deer literally roam suburban streets chomping on trees. My friend had her car totaled a couple of years ago after running into one.

Without natural predators, the population has to be controlled by man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I visit friends in NJ where the deer population has grown significantly. Groups of deer literally roam suburban streets chomping on trees. My friend had her car totaled a couple of years ago after running into one.

Without natural predators, the population has to be controlled by man.

THAT IS A BARBARIC AND CRUEL SUGGESTION!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I visit friends in NJ where the deer population has grown significantly. Groups of deer literally roam suburban streets chomping on trees. My friend had her car totaled a couple of years ago after running into one.

Without natural predators, the population has to be controlled by man.

THAT IS A BARBARIC AND CRUEL SUGGESTION!

It’s also not true. Nature can take care of itself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are too many deer, ALL the deer will die.

This is what some do not grasp. There are too many deer in Arlington for the available food and not enough natural predators to keep the ecosystem in balance. Reducing the deer herd size to a level that keeps the ecosystem in balance is important.

+1. In Long Island, they cull the deer population and donate the venison meat to soup kitchens. Deer chili. It works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I visit friends in NJ where the deer population has grown significantly. Groups of deer literally roam suburban streets chomping on trees. My friend had her car totaled a couple of years ago after running into one.

Without natural predators, the population has to be controlled by man.

THAT IS A BARBARIC AND CRUEL SUGGESTION!

Ah yeah, the bleeding heart who would rather they die a slow and agonizing death of starvation.

[Anonymous]

If he dies, he dies.

[Anonymous]

Culling deer just gives men a reason to kill something. We keep encroaching on thir habitat, so they have nothing to eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Culling deer just gives men a reason to kill something. We keep encroaching on thir habitat, so they have nothing to eat.

If it bothers you, please move back to a cave in France.

[Anonymous]

A buck rammed my car and almost flipped it over. Another instance a deer jumped over my car. It was on a hill beside the sunken road I was driving along

Both were extremely scary situations

[Anonymous]

THIS IS PURE ECO-TERRORISM!