Suburban Problems

[Xingu]

The face you make when you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

 

[ChrisBcritter]

Plant-fed venison for dinner?

[Snake45]

Not too far from where I live, yard deer are referred to as "suburban rats." They're considered vermin but no one is allowed to actually do anything about them. 

[Mark]

8 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Not too far from where I live, yard deer are referred to as "suburban rats." They're considered vermin but no one is allowed to actually do anything about them. 

When anyone is watching, that is...

[Joe Handley]

8 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Not too far from where I live, yard deer are referred to as "suburban rats." They're considered vermin but no one is allowed to actually do anything about them. 

Saw on the news i  the last couple weeks that there's a community that is planning to cull some here and has some of their residents up in arms over it. I get the whole guns in a park thing and "Ehmigerd Bambi's Mother?!", but I wonder how many may have had to deal with Lime Disease or hit one with a car.

[mikemodeler]

I have a solution to your problem and it will feed your family for a while and provide a nice pelt!

[Tom Geiger]

We have enough deer here that you can't plant gardens,  it's just called "feeding the deer".  The only place I have flowers and such is inside my pool area fence.  

Elsewhere I've had to plant deer resistant stuff like  Lambs Ear and Veronica.  And they'll eat that too if they're hungry enough!

[Rob Hall]

Heh-heh..I see the deer in my yard all the time, they come up to my patio and eat out of the bird feeders.  I see them in my front yard, driveway, side walk from my security cameras all the time.   And I'm in a leafy suburb only a mile or so from a major intersection of two freeways.

[Xingu]

Our yard is actually a nursery this time of year. The does will come and drop the fawns off in our yard and go about their business for most of the day. There is a large shade tree in the middle of the backyard and it is not unusual to 5 or 6 to be laying there. Some will even be sound asleep. Wife wanted a garden so I converted and expanded my old dog kennel so she could have raised beds. Can't keep the deer out when you leave the gate open.

There are still two tree stands up in the yard, but in recent years a new housing development has gone up on the other side of the trees you see in the photo. Still a couple of hundred yards between me and the next house, but not worth taking a chance.

[Tom Geiger]

1 hour ago, Xingu said:

Our yard is actually a nursery this time of year. The does will come and drop the fawns off in our yard and go about their business for most of the day. There is a large shade tree in the middle of the backyard and it is not unusual to 5 or 6 to be laying there.

Similar problems!   The above one loves to sit in that spot near the creek.  She'll sit there all morning some days. 

And here's the herd,  you can walk right through them and they won't budge.

[NYLIBUD]

Well imo we are invading the deers space.We build neighborhoods further into their territory,and then wonder why there are so many deers in some areas.Im sort of a part time hunter,(I go once in awhile,rabbit mostly)But I’m not gonna blast a deer in my back yard while I sit on my lounge chair.No sport in that.Of course,The Lyme disease is a real concern.But like most communities,we can’t shoot deer that wander on our property.U get a massive fine,but again that’s if anyone finds out.lol????.Now birds are a whole different story.I’ll take out a bird in a second.To me their nothing but flying loud annoying rats.

[Draggon]

14 hours ago, Joe Handley said:

I wonder how many may have had to deal with Lime Disease or hit one with a car.

I have Lyme disease. It has completely devastated my life. Bambi and her clan frequently visited my parent's back yard.