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Friday, March 18, 2005
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Snapshots from Home DEER, ME Well, it’s just as the website I consulted said: Deer like to bed down for the night on the tops of slightly wooded hills, so they have a view of predators. UD and her dog were headed toward the top of her backyard early this morning when, as one, a small herd of deer who’d been stretched out there staggered to their feet and stared down at the two of them. UD didn’t go up. She and the dog (who hadn’t seen the deer yet) turned around and walked to the front yard. And the deer shrugged and lay down again. Which is to say that in some important respects UD is willing to share her life with large numbers of deer. But things have gotten so bad in Montgomery County, Maryland, that the county now sponsors multiple deer hunts. On private land. In principle, UD could invite a group of hunters over one Sunday and let them blast away. |