On 2/27/09 8:19 AM, Clay Blackwell wrote:
. . . and the deer seem to be smart enough to know that they're free to wander about un-molested in the city.
The City of Warsaw organizes a herd-reduction every year, using volunteer bow hunters. (I don't know why they volunteer when it means jumping through a lot of extra hoops.) But Warsaw insists on conducting the hunt under rules intended to insure plenty of deer for next year!
On the other hand, when I googled hunting regulations to gather material for a scathing letter to the editor, I found a note that DNR intends to declare Warsaw an urban hunting zone, where hunters are allowed an extra deer each, and have to shoot a deer without antlers before they are allowed to shoot at one with a good rack. (I got the impression that it's an official rule that an urban-zone hunter who takes a deer with small antlers is presumed to have mistaken it for a doe.)
I hope (but don't believe) that the urban zone will include the Old Boy's Club. That's where the deer who forbid me to grow tomatoes and peppers come from.
I never even considered planting corn.
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