10/23/2004: Stuck deer

[wolf]

New Kensington appears to be near pittsburgh. It looks far enough out that people should have some kind of sense, though! I don't know geography on that end of the state well enough to guess how "towny" vs. "rural" that area is.

If it's more towny, I expect people react to deer like most of my suburban neighbors do ... proclaim them "cute" and illegally feed them.

So they could wander in fairly often.

[FloridaDragon]

Originally Posted by wolf

If it's more towny, I expect people react to deer like most of my suburban neighbors do ... proclaim them "cute" and illegally feed them.

Guilty....when we first relocated to CT from FL ('cause of our jobs), we fed the deer. The house was new with very few plantings so the deer did not seem to us to be a problem.....then in spring we finally met our neighbors and discovered the deer come in each fall/winter/early spring and will eat your plants to the ground. Was at a feed store buying a 50lb bag of deer chow when I noticed the guy in front of me was buying a spray-on deer repellant. I told him I hoped we were not neighbors.

We stopped feeding them and just appreciated them when they came around on their own...although as we planted more plants, we ended up resorting to some of the deer repellants ourselves....bars of deodorant soap tied to the inner growth of the plants seemed to work pretty well.

FD

[Griff]

Originally Posted by FloridaDragon

Guilty....when we first relocated to CT from FL ('cause of our jobs), we fed the deer.
FD

Thing is feeding deer in northern climes is all very Disney but in winter causes starvation.