Sorry Tracy, I guess I was still thinking about Mike calling them pests for intruding and then the other posts saying that the deer cause havoc and all. then your post on the heels of it talking about someone being killed by a deer... I just jumped on it. No offense meant.

>Hi Alan,
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>I never wrote nor implied that. I was simply pointing out that deadly accidents do occur between vehicles and wild animals. I must have missed something in the discussion...
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>>>I personally knew two people who were killed by deers leaping over their cars (one in Wisconsin and one in North Carolina) while they were driving down the road. Both were killed by a deer hoof to the head. I see 4 deer everyday outside my house. They live in the woods beside my house. My daughter has had her drivers permit since August 2006 (we have a graduated system here) and she has had to avoid deer(s) in the road 5 times already. One night a deer was running down the road straight into oncoming traffic.
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>>The deer are just doing what they've always done. The fact that we came along and stuck a roadway and homes in their paths doesn't make them villains.
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>>>>>>>>Now I can shoot a deer and feel a primary sense of joy and excitment instead of guilt. Sure if it is a poor shot and it suffers, I feel bad. But the feeling of a clean shot and quick kill of a deer is definitely one of the top 5 joys in my life.
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>>>>>>>And that you feel that way doesn't bother you? If you were living in frontier times and killing that deer meant your family would eat for a week instead of going hungry, I can understand the feeling. But in the modern world, how can killing an innocent creature give you joy?
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>>>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>>>It's easy to paint deer as innocent little creatures, but they are a pest here. People die from car accidents with deer,
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>>>>>Er, isn't it that deer die from people running into them? It's not as if the deer flatten the cars.
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>>>>Actually the deer do flatten the cars. I've seen cars all but totaled after the driver hit a deer.