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Post by Bonny on Sept 6, 2014 10:33:42 GMT -5
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 6, 2014 10:41:39 GMT -5
Those monkeys from that research lab had a good time on the G.G. bridge, too .
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 6, 2014 11:03:10 GMT -5
I saw that in the news the morning. Seeing all those cars backed up behind two smug-looking deer is hilarious. I don't imagine the commuters found it nearly as funny as I did!
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Post by Phoenix84 on Sept 6, 2014 22:04:33 GMT -5
Normally, I thought deer tried to steer clear of heavily populated areas. But I have seen them on the highways of densily populated areas on occasion.
I wonder what happened to them, I guess they got off the road and went to wherever.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 22:16:57 GMT -5
A friend of ours just hit a deer but didn't kill it. Just hurt real bad, crying. Friend shot it, killed it and then called to report it. Was told it was not legal to shoot it. He should have just watched it suffer until someone came. It wasn't like someone was there quick either, this is farther north in the middle of nowhere. Have not heard yet what will happen to him because of this stupid law.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 9:19:06 GMT -5
It is also felony poaching if you run over a deer and then drag it home to use the meat. It's a stupid law, but I understand why it exists...
I always laugh when I see deer. My grandmother lived in the Oakland hills where there were a LOT of deer. She was the only person I have ever met who hated them.
She tried all of the "deer proofing" ideas to rid them from her plants, and said most things people say to do only attracted them more.
She was a mild woman, but she would curse a blue streak if you mentioned deer. LOL
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Bonny
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Post by Bonny on Sept 8, 2014 9:30:34 GMT -5
We have plenty of deer haters on our street. The woman next door has 8' high green construction type fencing surround her yard...and every once in a while a deer still figures out how to get in there and eat all her flowers. Yesterday there were 10 on my lawn. The people two doors down have had their front lawn torn out and the landscaping guy doing it said "Uh oh, I didn't realize you had a deer problem here".
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Post by weltschmerz on Sept 10, 2014 16:55:31 GMT -5
Still on of the funniest things I've ever heard....
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Post by movingforward on Sept 10, 2014 17:04:13 GMT -5
The people in my city crack me up. They move way the hell out of the city because they want a quiet natural setting in the hill country and then they show them on the news complaining about the deer in the area
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Post by Bonny on Sept 10, 2014 17:37:55 GMT -5
The people in my city crack me up. They move way the hell out of the city because they want a quiet natural setting in the hill country and then they show them on the news complaining about the deer in the area We've owned this now 50 year old house for nearly 20 years. We live within the limits of an incorporated city. The deer have actually increased in the neighborhood because we don't have as many mountain lions as we used to. About the only thing that kills off the deer are cars and a few coyotes.
When we moved back after being away for 9 years the difference was striking. We never used to have 17 deer sitting on our front lawn before.
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Post by t-dog on Sept 10, 2014 17:55:16 GMT -5
For those that don't want deer in their yard - go to the local salon and ask them to save for you the hair that falls to the floor all day long. Sprinkle the human hair around the plants you want safe from the deer. Deer won't go near them if they smell like people.
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Post by cronewitch on Sept 10, 2014 18:54:10 GMT -5
A friend of ours just hit a deer but didn't kill it. Just hurt real bad, crying. Friend shot it, killed it and then called to report it. Was told it was not legal to shoot it. He should have just watched it suffer until someone came. It wasn't like someone was there quick either, this is farther north in the middle of nowhere. Have not heard yet what will happen to him because of this stupid law. A friend of ours lived in the back country but had a field of clover in front of his house. He watched a huge buck eat his clover like he was his pet. A lady hit his buck and came to his house to report it ran up his drive way. The buck was injured badly so he called the authorities, they said shoot it and haul it up to the back for the coyotes. He shot it but didn't want to eat it because it was a pet almost so he gave it to ISO to bring home. They don't feed coyotes the hunt coyotes. Shooting an injured deer is the right answer even if he is a pet almost.
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Post by Bonny on Sept 10, 2014 20:23:04 GMT -5
For those that don't want deer in their yard - go to the local salon and ask them to save for you the hair that falls to the floor all day long. Sprinkle the human hair around the plants you want safe from the deer. Deer won't go near them if they smell like people. LOL I'm pretty sure a couple of them would eat out my hand if I tried. They come up on my deck to eat my roses AND up my front porch steps to my front door to eat my jasmine.
They don't even bother to get up when we pull into the driveway. I'm pretty sure they're laughing at us.
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Post by cronewitch on Sept 12, 2014 13:08:01 GMT -5
For those that don't want deer in their yard - go to the local salon and ask them to save for you the hair that falls to the floor all day long. Sprinkle the human hair around the plants you want safe from the deer. Deer won't go near them if they smell like people. LOL I'm pretty sure a couple of them would eat out my hand if I tried. They come up on my deck to eat my roses AND up my front porch steps to my front door to eat my jasmine.
They don't even bother to get up when we pull into the driveway. I'm pretty sure they're laughing at us.
My ex was running a chainsaw when a deer came up behind him to smell a box of sugar frosted flakes that was on the ground. When I was young we fed a young deer carrots, he had a nice red bow on his neck and went door to door up the alley, he disappeared one hunting season, what idiot shoots a deer with a red bow?
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Post by Bonny on Sept 12, 2014 14:12:55 GMT -5
LOL I'm pretty sure a couple of them would eat out my hand if I tried. They come up on my deck to eat my roses AND up my front porch steps to my front door to eat my jasmine.
They don't even bother to get up when we pull into the driveway. I'm pretty sure they're laughing at us.
My ex was running a chainsaw when a deer came up behind him to smell a box of sugar frosted flakes that was on the ground. When I was young we fed a young deer carrots, he had a nice red bow on his neck and went door to door up the alley, he disappeared one hunting season, what idiot shoots a deer with a red bow?
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 12, 2014 14:33:18 GMT -5
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 12, 2014 14:33:53 GMT -5
The same idiots that a truck full of apples and veggies so the deer come and feed. Easy kills. Pricks.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Sept 12, 2014 14:36:28 GMT -5
The people in my city crack me up. They move way the hell out of the city because they want a quiet natural setting in the hill country and then they show them on the news complaining about the deer in the area We've owned this now 50 year old house for nearly 20 years. We live within the limits of an incorporated city. The deer have actually increased in the neighborhood because we don't have as many mountain lions as we used to. About the only thing that kills off the deer are cars and a few coyotes.
When we moved back after being away for 9 years the difference was striking. We never used to have 17 deer sitting on our front lawn before.
When I was growing up in a small town, there was a big gray doe (gray is an unusual color for deer here) who would come out of the woods (my parent's neighborhood backed up onto a cemetary, which borders a wildlife area). This doe would come out of the woods and graze on the edges of the lawns and defiantly stare down the few cars that would come down the streets. Recently I was visiting my parents and got up first thing in the morning. Out in their backyard was a young doe grazing on the grass. I'd never seen a deer bold enough to jump their fence before. She was also gray, so it made me wonder who her grandma (or mom) was
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Post by cronewitch on Sept 12, 2014 20:09:14 GMT -5
My aunts farm has a draw that has deer and some come in her field almost to the house so we sit in the dining room watching the deer. The golf course has a creek and the deer line up at the edge of the trees to go to the creek at dusk. We party there sometimes and watch the deer watching us wishing we would leave. There isn't any sportsmanship in shooting deer like that, town deer are pets, you want venison go in the woods and look for them. Nothing wrong with hunting but road hunting and hunting deer wearing bows is wrong, baiting is wrong, dogs are wrong, work for your food.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Sept 12, 2014 20:37:32 GMT -5
DH was unloading the car at a mountain area and felt something nudge his rear end. He turned face to face with a huge buck deer. Scared the bejesus out of him. He yelled at me to stay indoors.
Bad things happen when deer get to used to humans. We love to see them and give them treats of apples and a lovely meadow to feed in. Then some yayloo hunts the red bow deer.
Our city has a heard that moves from the yards at night to the woods during the day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 10:23:10 GMT -5
I remember when they said to buy Irish Spring soap bars and shred them to deter the deer.
Went to my grandparent's house one night to the smell of the Irish permeating the area - and the deer were right next to it eating the plants. Apparently they hadn't heard that the soap was for them. LOL
Grandma had a nice rant about grating soap so the deer could enjoy clean smelling air. LOL
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 14, 2014 17:21:49 GMT -5
Use the maloridite. The deer hate Wisconsin poo
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