Don’t forget, deer were already here

Dear editor: Re: Solve deer issue, sterilize bucks, Herald, Letters, March 13

So Jan from Kelowna thinks we should round up all the bucks and castrate them. Wonderful. In no time flat the indigenous deer population will become extinct.

Just for the record, young lady, you might be well advised that we owe them! We owe them and all wildlife big time. They were here first, we are the real wild life, we are the intruders, we should be thankful to be allowed to share this land with them and theirs.

Have you heard of building a fence? Why not just shoot them all like they did to the cougars in Penticton? The cougars, you might recall, did nothing wrong apart from being in and around Penticton. Shame! So in Jan’s world, she would have all the deer lads firing blanks and all the ladies getting false promises. I think that logic would better be applied to the human race, especially in B.C.

I can think of a lot of males academic and otherwise who should never be allowed to reproduce or, God forbid, be cloned.

If the deer in your area are a problem, put some deer netting over them or put up a fence around the vineyard. The netting is cheap and is thin and black and almost invisible and the deer are not stupid – they just move on

I have been doing this for years and my plants and cedar hedge are all doing fine.

Don Smithyman Oliver