Comments on: Oh, Deer

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:20:49 +0000

This is sure a far cry from when I lived in upstate NY years ago. Everybody would hang their gutted deer in the front yard, from a tree, so all the neighbors could ooh and aah over the size of the deer, the antlers, etc. It was almost like getting in the car to go look at Christmas lights. Everybody would pile in the car to go drive around and look at the deer trophies. I guess that old saying is true, ” Don’t name something if you are going to eat it.” Of course, you’re not going to eat Stan, cough cough, but if you are humanizing a dead animal, you’re going to get into trouble over it sooner or later. LOL.

By: Protective Mother

Protective Mother — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:54:45 +0000

Yes! My kids first noticed the dead carcass one morning and I didn’t have the heart to tell them the poor innocent creature was dead so I just said it was sleeping in hopes that it would be lawfully disposed of before we had to take that route again. You can imagine my horror when our second journey approached and the kids began to yell, mommy mommy that deer’s sleeping there again. The children began getting attached to the “sleeping” deer who they named Stan. Day after day they stared in bemusement at the fact that Stan could sleep so soundly, with its eyes open no less, next to traffic. Now the deer is beginning to get a giant hole in its gut! I’m debating about dressing in all black, taking my husband’s pickup, and under the cover of darkness, disposing of the creature myself. How else am I supposed to explain the gaping hole to my innocent babies who have grown so found of Stan? Of course after losing close to 20 pounds my black pants no longer fit me anymore and who can afford new ones in this economy….what a conundrum. I will be losing sleep tonight.

By: Sheldon Citizen

Sheldon Citizen — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:37:43 +0000

I’vewondered the same thing.

By: bridgeman

bridgeman — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:15:22 +0000

Willy. There is a web cam of Eagles at the Minnesota DNR site this year. Pretty neat!!!

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:50:08 +0000

So the land owners are creating habitat “for the wildlife”? There aren’t any other places for habitat, than on the edges of towns, on both sides of the highway, with animals dodging and getting killed by vehicles traveling at 60mph? When animals are splattered on the shoulder, how are they benefiting? They are a nuisance this close to town. When a deer goes through someone’s windshield & they get hurt, then it will matter.

A million dollars?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:18:48 +0000

I think the farmer should have a right to shoot any deer on his land. I have seen spots in a field up to 20 acres completely destroyed already. Who pays the farmer for that loss of production? Lets see now… 20 acres x 180 bushels…at todays price…you figure out the lose!