Sunday, June 16, 2013

Anita Birt's Note Book

It's the deer problem. It's  a problem without an easy solution. Victoria and surrounding cities, like Oak Bay, are over run with deer destroying gardens, leaving behind their pee and poop. It's so bad parents of young children cannot let them play in their own back yard or front garden.

So fence your property, say the bleeding hearts. "The deer were here before us. Learn how to deal with them."

Farmers on Vancouver Island lose millions a year from marauding deer. Fence your fields cry the bleeding hearts. The cost of fencing in large acreage is out of the question. Millions of dollars.

Cull the deer. Bleeding hearts suggest capturing the does and sterilizing them. At what cost?

Hire hunters to kill the deer seems to be the only option. Hire sharp shooters to make sure the deer are killed quickly.

Oh dear, We suffered from a plague of rabbits on the grounds of the university not so long ago. The bleeding hearts were out in full cry. Can't kill them. Capture them and send to safe places in the country where a foolish woman promised to fence them in and care for them.

Within months she ran out of money. Rounded them up and sent them to a safe place in the States.

Any brilliant ideas on how to get rid of deer running wild in our cities?

FATHER'S DAY to-day. My father passed away in 1948 when I lived in Wales. I was devastated. I'd last seen him in August  1944 when he and my mother waved me off on the train at Union Stations in Toronto.  I was on my way to Halifax and then overseas to Britain.
Rest well, Pop. You were a good man.

Anita
www.anitabirt.com




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