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I hope the Park makes the correct decision and leaves the deer alone. As a parent, I can't emphasize enough how important it is for institutions, organizations, and those in leadership positions to set the right example for my child and others. We need to teach tolerance and respect - and demonstrate these - if we want future generations to reflect these values.
Hey Allison, killing diseased deer which are tearing down a national park is the correct decision. If your children can not understand the need to control over population, then that is simply bad parenting. I bet if your children get sick you give them medicine; I bet your children have gotten vaccines. Thousands upon thousands of animals have been killed to produces these products, so don't sit and preach about something you only adhere to if it is easy and convenient.
Allison, your a dope. As there are no natural predators in the park, if the deer arent controlled, there will be no foliage left in the park, the deer will die a slow agonising death due to starvation, and eventually, they will try to migrate where there is food (outside of the park) and cause major damage to property and person. There must be balance in nature. Your solution would require your to explain to your children why Bambi is starving to death and/or plastered on the hood of a car...you dolt. Go back to suburban America in your oversized SUV and bury your head in the sand, clearly that's where its been your whole life.
This should have been done years ago. Now that they are proceeding...next up.....extensive shooting of geese that are running lakes and parks throughout PA. Other states also, NJ for one.
Hey Allison....get a clue...I drive through the park everyday and witness accidents and potential due to deer. I also live near the park and have herds of deer regularly pass through my neighborhood and devour hundreds of thousands of dollars in shrubbery. Having a deer population so large in a populated area with significant traffic passing through the park all day long is rediculous. Your tolerance has gone too far...as is the case with tolerance fanatics....it goes from the right thing to do in case were there is a real problem with lack of tolerance to a point were everything goes under the "tolerance" cry regardless of the reality of life surrounding the issue and good common sense. Don't worry, I am sure those folks that are against the hunt can put their names on the list to receive some good fresh deer meat!!!!
We control the pet population by spaying & neutering. Unfortunately we can't control deer that way. We have to employ means of animal & insect control that make it safer for everyone.
The park will make the correct decision and cull the deer. It's not the ideal solution but it's needed to protect people from injury and death. The acute problem needs attention while the contraception effort is being instituted. If it saves ONE person's life over the next year it's worth it. Accidents are too common and near misses frightening. The spread of Lyme disease is horrendous in the region. As for the "Friends of Animals" people, these attorneys that have been interviewed are forwarding baseless excuses and poor solutions to confuse the public and forward their agenda. "Free-living animals can control their numbers, and they do control their numbers...". It sure is working, isn't it, Ms. Hall? And slowing down doesn't solve this. If they bolt in front of you while you are going 15 miles/hr you and your children are still in danger. The final quote of this article, in which the attorney describes the deer as "jubilant" is an example of their twisted thinking - attaching human qualities to them. It's intolerant and disrespectful for these people to advocate prolonging danger to us and our children because it takes away their enjoyment of watching hordes of "happy" deer. How about exerting their efforts to fight child abusers and molesters? Oh right, I forgot. Animals have more rights than children in this country.
The park will make the correct decision and cull the deer. It's not the ideal solution but it's needed to protect people from injury and death. The acute problem needs attention while the contraception effort is being instituted. If it saves ONE person's life over the next year it's worth it. Accidents are too common and near misses frightening. The spread of Lyme disease is horrendous in the region. As for the "Friends of Animals" people, these attorneys that have been interviewed are forwarding baseless excuses and poor solutions to confuse the public and forward their agenda. "Free-living animals can control their numbers, and they do control their numbers...". It sure is working, isn't it, Ms. Hall? And slowing down doesn't solve this. If they bolt in front of you while you are going 15 miles/hr you and your children are still in danger. The final quote of this article, in which the attorney describes the deer as "jubilant" is an example of their twisted thinking - attaching human qualities to them. It's intolerant and disrespectful for these people to advocate prolonging danger to us and our children because it takes away their enjoyment of watching hordes of "happy" deer. How about exerting their efforts to fight child abusers and molesters? Oh right, I forgot. Animals have more rights than children in this country.
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An organized hunt will not only solve the problem of over population, but it will also keep costs down for taxpayers and make it safer for drivers and people that are sight-seeing at the park. Seems like a no-brainer to me. Or we can invest millions to tranquilize and neuter the deer, whoever thought of that idea should be neutered to save us normalpeople from yourfuture procreations. Get over it. Killing and eating animals has been happening for thousands of years. There is not a more efficent or cost effective way. They should hold a raffle for hunters to be able to hunt there, and reward them for each deer they kill/save from being hit by a car or being starved from overpopulation.
I am anxiously awaiting Ashley Judd's condemnation of Rendell for all of this senseless killing.
Friends of Animals? Or Friends of Bambi? Where do they get the idea that "free living animals can control their numbers"? That is silly unless she means starvation and disease, and that is the consequence of overpopulation.
I am anxiously awaiting Ashley Judd's condemnation of Governor Rendell for this senseless killing of these beautiful animals
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How about wiring around the perimeter? Does everyone have to model Sara Palin in her kills of wolves and other animals?
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