We can’t have it both ways on deer

To the editor:

Re: Mixed reaction management options

Let me tell you what it is like to hit a deer with your car. One winter, I hit two deer on two separate occasions. Both deer ran at me from my blind side. The first one hit the front of my car and, before I could stop, my car smacked into it pushing it forward two or three times before sending it flying onto a nearby lawn, dead.

The second deer’s hind leg nearly ripped off when it rotated around my front wheel. It still managed to run into the woods where it dropped dead. Thankfully, I managed to keep my car straight on the road both times so I did not run into an oncoming vehicle nor did I hit a pedestrian.

According to the literature from Truro’s Tuesday night’s information session, the only thing that really works is a cull. Relocation, birth control, surgery (good lord), even fencing to deer are not adequate measures. Folks want “something done” but, heaven forbid, anything should die.

The Town is in an awkward spot when people think they are “barbaric” or folks would be “ashamed” if deer are culled. Truro doesn’t want to be seen as “bad people” especially in these days of the Court of Social Media. Perhaps we should send an owl to Dumbledore and see if he can carry the deer off to Hogwarts!

Deer are beautiful, no doubt about it. But so are cows, chickens, pigs, and fish.

How do you think their meat got onto your plate? Someone had to kill it.

The deer like it here as the food in our yards is tasty, there aren’t any natural predators so they can multiply at will, and their ticks can have a field day. And before anyone says that we’ve forced them out of their natural environment, my garden hasn’t been a forest for 200 years or so.

So give it a rest folks, we can’t have life both ways. Let the town do the right thing and cull the giant deer herd.

Lesa Light,

Truro