The Cult of the Environment has a furbaby wing:
As the District and its highly populated suburbs grapple with their expanding deer populations, Fairfax City is planning a new approach: tranquilize and capture all the female deer in the six-square-mile city, take them to a surgical table and sterilize them to keep them from reproducing. The entire process, from “darting” to release, takes about 90 minutes. If Fairfax City receives clearance from the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, officials said it will be the first jurisdiction in Virginia to try the sterilization approach. […]
The process begins with shooting female deer (does) with tranquilizer darts, which are equipped with tracking chips so the deer can be found after they are shot. DeNicola said it will be him, a graduate student and a veterinarian to handle the deer, with a police officer assisting with security. A tranquilized deer will then be taken to the Fairfax police headquarters sallyport, where a surgical table will be set up. DeNicola showed the council a slide show of how the deer are opened up, its ovaries removed, and then sewed back up. DeNicola said the deer typically come out of the anesthesia after about an hour, and after a short period to get its bearings, it is taken back to where it was found and released.
We are surrounded by crazy people.
This is proof that there are to many tax dollars available.
The idea that this idea is even floated shows there the governments are over funded.
Keep them in the city…. so we can hit them on the roadways.
Brilliant.
While they’re in there would it be too much to ask of them to remove the backstrap also..?..
I like Instapundit’s approach – invasive species should be eaten. Venison can be quite tasty.
Heck, that’s nothing, Kate. In Nanaimo, we scooped up hundreds of feral rabbits and shipped them to shelters in Texas.
We too have a huge deer problem. They’re like lawn ornaments. But many here would prefer to abandon neighbourhoods ‘back to nature’ rather than shoot ’em.
SDA has been a big part of my intellectual life Kate. May God bless and keep you safe!
Wouldn’t it be simpler just to educate the bucks in how to use condoms?
So effing stupid that you just know it will get funded – because politicians will support the nonsense as a vote – getter.
The State of Illinois, has the same problem with an ever-expanding deer population “downstate.” (of Chicago) Strangely, although it isn’t a State that first comes to mind when thinking about deer, IIRC Illinois now has more deer per capita than any other State.
Does Obamacareâ„¢ cover deer as well?
Seems that a much better solution is to allow venison to be sold in all butcher shops and meat counters right beside beef , pork and lamb. Too logical ?
Here in Iowa, we have a lot in common with the folks in and around DC. The first step in the Fairfax City plan is “shooting female deer (does) with tranquilizer darts”. The first step around here is “shooting deer of either sex with a firearm”.
Typical leftist thinking … turning thousands of doe’s in into ho’s. They will be doing it for fun not procreation. One day an innocent deer in the woods, the next day, a disgraced animal fornicating in the wild with no Bamby’s to show for it. Shame. Next thing they will want to provide deer counseling for childless deers.
It’s not a bad idea, if it were applied to the PEOPLE of Virgina.
Rizwan nailed it.
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But give the needy food stamps, not venison.
Stunning anti humanist logic at work, if you can trank ’em you can just shoot them, less cost greater benefit.
But that would not sell would it, killing dear and eating them is cruelty to animals, where as drugging them and ripping their reproductive organs out, is A OK.
A cull is necessary and will be forced upon us.
When you combine no limit to taking public money with stupidity this is what you get. I have seen the same kind of stupidity over and over in Canada, be it for coyotes, deer, black bears or whatever.
Why not shoot them? No limits of any kind, and a four week window for legal trade in venison. The problem would be over before you knew it.
As long as there are idiots the rest of us will never lack for amusement. I guess the good people of Fairfax haven’t pondered on the axiom “nature abhors a vacuum”. As the sterilized does die off, fertile one from surrounding areas will move in.
Well at least the veterinarians will be able to feed their families should this harebrained scheme go ahead. When I first read the article I was reminded of my veterinarian friend who at age 13 decided to castrate his dad’s chickens. He read about it in a book and was up for the challenge. The next morning all of his subjects were dead. Seems he didn’t know the difference between a chicken’s testicles and a chicken’s kidneys.
crossbow => venison yum…
Fairfax Co is a bedroom community for DC… these are the people who run the govt.
Nothing is surprising from that band of merry idiots around the beltway.
Shooting them with bows is a good idea,sell more tags, make more money, cater to conservation. I’ve always wondered what deer hunting with baseball bats would be like too. Could catch on in urban or suburban areas where guns would be a problem.
“a four week window for legal trade in venison”
This might run afoul of federal meat inspection regulations.
The process begins with shooting female progressives (hippies) with tranquilizer darts, which are equipped with tracking chips so the hippie can be found after they are shot. DeNicola said it will be him, a graduate student and a vegetarian to handle the hippie, with a police officer assisting with security. A tranquilized hippie will then be taken to the Fairfax police headquarters sallyport, where a surgical table will be set up. DeNicola showed the council a slide show of how the hippies are opened up, its ovaries removed, and then sewed back up. DeNicola said the hippie typically come out of the anesthesia after about an hour, and after a short period to get its bearings (charge their i-phone), it is taken back to where it was found and released.
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As dense as the housing is in the City of Fairfax, I’m not sure even bow hunting would be safe in most areas of it. Plus, there is no way you could get that passed. So, this is probably the best solution in that you at least keep the deer population in check.
Say what?
If it is safe to use one projectile weapon, what is the problem using others?
Tranking children with tranquillizers set to deer weight is probably more dangerous than accidental wounds from arrows.
Course live trapping deer is not difficult.
You could always rope them. I hear that’s fun.
Makes more sense than the local Sask DNR policy of encouraging cougars to infest the neighbourhood. Credible sightings and obvious cougar kills of livestock are dismissed by conservation officers.
God help them if one of these deer dies.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2013/12/bunny-huggers-are-dangerous-lunatics.html
I used to think Hindus were crazy, but really the only animal they think is holy is the cow. The American Church of the Bunnyhugger thinks -everything- from nuisance bears to the friggin’ one inch long Delta Smelt and even the Pierson’s Milk Vetch (poisonous weed that grows in sand) is holy.
Except for if the animal gets killed by a windmill of course. Then its ok.
“in the same decade that actors like Jack Nicholson were graduating high school and moving to Los Angeles to start in the industry on the bottom rung, Burt Reynolds was tackling deer in the Everglades.”
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-accidentally-famous-movie-stars_p2/
Do these morons realize that prey species are programmed for very rapid reproduction? The only reason there are too many deer is no predators. Bring back the predators and the problem will be solved. If it’s too politically incorrect to hunt the deer (despite all of the food that would result in), then bring back the predators.
I believe that cougars were native to that part of Virginia in the past and they should be brought in and allowed to flourish. The best way to sell this program would be the “natural” aspect of this method of deer control and how Gaia approves of this. Very soon the problem would be solved and then the cougars could turn to slow government employees for food. Either that or the cougars could have GPS and radio collars so that they could be captured using anesthetic darts when the deer had disappeared and the cougars moved into the next deer overpopulation area once they’d cleaned out the first.
Loki asks: “Do these morons realize that prey species are programmed for very rapid reproduction?”
Rhetorical I’m sure, but in truth the answer is yes, they do know that. The truth is that these are people who know very well that what they are doing is utterly futile, a waste of money, harmful to the deer and stupid as h3ll.
They’re doing it anyway.
That to me is the most disturbing part of the entire affair.
Why isn’t he castrating some of the bucks too??
Equal sterilization is only fair folks.
(Or is he going to sell the deer ovum? Betcha it’s a yes!!! Why else wouldn’t he just tie the doe’s tubes? Much gentler on the doe. But he’s just wanting the bucks — er I mean the dough! Doh!)
The does won’t go into hear. The bucks will leave the area. Deer population will go down. Still a waste of money.