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HappyMe

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14. City deer?

Reply to Beringia (Reply #12)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 01:56 PM

Feb 2014

I still want to know who's going to pay for this, and how they are to be sterilized?

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Deer Cull in New York, East Hampton by Farm Bureau Stopped by Lawsuit [View all] Beringia Feb 2014 OP

They are destructive (rats with hooves) when they overpopulate an area badtoworse Feb 2014 #1

Culling Beringia Feb 2014 #2

Any peer reviewed citations? Any proof that sterilization works and is cost effective? badtoworse Feb 2014 #4

Good because I'm pissed off with you...the karma evens out...nt joeybee12 Feb 2014 #7

Bow hunting JJChambers Feb 2014 #37

Contraception Beringia Feb 2014 #10

$66 per deer and 150 were treated? We have thousands in northern NJ badtoworse Feb 2014 #15

Are you talking about a rural population? Beringia Feb 2014 #20

I'm talking about northern NJ, it's practically all suburban badtoworse Feb 2014 #23

So you are a bow-hunter who wants to expand bow-hunting? Beringia Feb 2014 #25

Personally, I'm more of a bird hunter and I use a shotgun when I hunt... badtoworse Feb 2014 #35

A doe-buck seperator? Seriously? NickB79 Feb 2014 #38

the rut Beringia Feb 2014 #41

Fire Island is, well, an island NickB79 Feb 2014 #32

Good grief. HappyMe Feb 2014 #5

Sarcasm, I hope... joeybee12 Feb 2014 #8

No, not sarcasm. HappyMe Feb 2014 #9

For city deer Beringia Feb 2014 #12

City deer? HappyMe Feb 2014 #14

Pay for what Beringia Feb 2014 #18

I don't see how contraception will be administered. HappyMe Feb 2014 #21

Porcine Zona Pellucida Vaccine Beringia Feb 2014 #24

It's been quite some time HappyMe Feb 2014 #26

I was quoting Fitzpatrick, the guy who does the PZP Beringia Feb 2014 #27

Ah, okay. HappyMe Feb 2014 #29

Contracepton as a solution to an over population of deer is ridiculous. Jenoch Feb 2014 #30

And you know that they are overpopulating this area? joeybee12 Feb 2014 #6

They are overpopulating where I live and many other suburban areas in the northeast badtoworse Feb 2014 #11

East Hampton Beringia Feb 2014 #17

I'll go with these guys. Ostfeld's assertion doesn't pass the smell test. badtoworse Feb 2014 #36

when the alternative is widescale starvation amongst the population . . . geek tragedy Feb 2014 #3

These are city areas Beringia Feb 2014 #13

I know. nt geek tragedy Feb 2014 #16

Then what is your statement for Beringia Feb 2014 #19

to note that the reason for the overpopulation is the removal of predators nt geek tragedy Feb 2014 #22

We better kill them so they don't die Doremus Feb 2014 #28

"Where are all these dead deers you speak of? " NickB79 Feb 2014 #34

Sorry, not even close to being the epidemic of starved deer the poster spoke of. Doremus Feb 2014 #39

Deer are ravaging Minnesota forests NickB79 Feb 2014 #31

Deer populations Beringia Feb 2014 #40

Because clearly, man has never been a natural predator of deer NickB79 Feb 2014 #33

I like how the OP uses imagery of deer in spots 'fawns' to solicit sympathy/outrage... Earth_First Feb 2014 #42