As deer encroach on Washington suburbs, attitudes about kills shift
Early next year, if all goes according to plan, six cops armed with high-powered rifles will take up positions inside Cabin John Regional Park and begin killing the sweetest looking of creatures: white-tailed deer. The park sits seven miles northwest of the District, on the edges of Bethesda and Potomac — not exactly hot spots of hunting culture.
“They can’t get here fast enough,” said Ty Tydings, an area resident who ran over a deer last year, has had to slow down to avoid four more this year and is tired of seeing his shrubs get eaten. “Everyone is pretty sick of deer.”
I know what you mean, Ty. While we're not tired of seeing the deer, we do get tired of them grazing off all the plants in our yard. We have 3 times as much undeveloped land as developed land, and they still insist on coming up into our yard and grazing off the Hostas, Day Lilies and Euonymus.
Critics of the killings still enjoy wide support inside the deer-rich District and in pockets around the region, including Fairfax. The activists favor doe contraception (including permanent ovary extraction), the application of deer-repellent sprays to shrubs and a higher tolerance for the animals.
Spaying deer? You're kidding me, right. Spaying deer, keeping them to heal up and releasing them back to the wild? If you can catch them to spay them, why not just slaughter them, and give the meat to the poor?
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