![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2CPIciK:
unicornduke:
bomberqueen17 replied to your post: I know everyone thinks its cute when deer makes…
holy jesus my b-i-l killed a deer and i held its feet while he field-dressed it and it was cooling and i just watched ticks dropping off and like AAAUUGGHH
oh god suddenly I want to hunt deer a lot less ew
the newest internet deer sensation is that a deer walked into a store in colorado and they fed it and it came back with more deer friends like no no no no NO NO NO
I’ve seen that one.
And I’m like, someone illegally has been hand-feeding that thing so they can shoot it in the face later.
That is NOT GOOD. That is illegal in NY partly because do you know who else you’re feeding when you feed deer?
BEARS. GUESS HOW I KNOW THIS. GUESS HOW MUCH TROUBLE MY FRIENDS’ NEIGHBORS GOT IN WITH THE DEC WHEN WE TOLD ON THEM BECAUSE WE ALMOST GOT MURDERATED BY A FUCKING BLACK BEAR. It showed up all hey food sources what’s up and seemed offended when we were like AUGH NO WHAT AIIEE. (And then I got literally mugged by a deer on my way to the outhouse. This was a friend’s cabin in the Adirondacks. You see deer up there sure, but they don’t usually walk up to you in the dark and try to get in your pocket. What the fuck.)
I get it. I get it! Deer are magical woodland creatures. Deer are pretty and graceful and weird. And you can tame deer, and that’s kind of cool!
BUT. Deer are also disease vectors, part of a complex ecosystem that involves predators and other unpredictable animals and fucking BEARS, and deer are also insanely dangerous. They are quite big and very fast and extremely powerful and they are WILD ANIMALS.
And insofar as hunting– I mean, they’re hella tasty. And the ticks drop off pretty fast, so probably by the time you have them field-dressed and tagged and drag them back to wherever you’re going to do your breakdown of the carcass, there won’t be any left. But it’s still pretty gross.
(What else is gross is how many ticks wind up on the hogs. I don’t know what to do about that. It doesn’t seem to bother them too much, but I wish that there was some kind of organic-compatible bug spray solution or other, because I feel bad for them. But the hogs are gonna be Certified™ Organic next season so there’s no more room for messing about.) (I have no idea if people fly-spray their hogs like we used to for our horses. Is that a thing? It’s not as bad on pasture as if they were confined but it’s still, IDK, I feel bad for them.)
(Your picture was not posted)
unicornduke:
bomberqueen17 replied to your post: I know everyone thinks its cute when deer makes…
holy jesus my b-i-l killed a deer and i held its feet while he field-dressed it and it was cooling and i just watched ticks dropping off and like AAAUUGGHH
oh god suddenly I want to hunt deer a lot less ew
the newest internet deer sensation is that a deer walked into a store in colorado and they fed it and it came back with more deer friends like no no no no NO NO NO
I’ve seen that one.
And I’m like, someone illegally has been hand-feeding that thing so they can shoot it in the face later.
That is NOT GOOD. That is illegal in NY partly because do you know who else you’re feeding when you feed deer?
BEARS. GUESS HOW I KNOW THIS. GUESS HOW MUCH TROUBLE MY FRIENDS’ NEIGHBORS GOT IN WITH THE DEC WHEN WE TOLD ON THEM BECAUSE WE ALMOST GOT MURDERATED BY A FUCKING BLACK BEAR. It showed up all hey food sources what’s up and seemed offended when we were like AUGH NO WHAT AIIEE. (And then I got literally mugged by a deer on my way to the outhouse. This was a friend’s cabin in the Adirondacks. You see deer up there sure, but they don’t usually walk up to you in the dark and try to get in your pocket. What the fuck.)
I get it. I get it! Deer are magical woodland creatures. Deer are pretty and graceful and weird. And you can tame deer, and that’s kind of cool!
BUT. Deer are also disease vectors, part of a complex ecosystem that involves predators and other unpredictable animals and fucking BEARS, and deer are also insanely dangerous. They are quite big and very fast and extremely powerful and they are WILD ANIMALS.
And insofar as hunting– I mean, they’re hella tasty. And the ticks drop off pretty fast, so probably by the time you have them field-dressed and tagged and drag them back to wherever you’re going to do your breakdown of the carcass, there won’t be any left. But it’s still pretty gross.
(What else is gross is how many ticks wind up on the hogs. I don’t know what to do about that. It doesn’t seem to bother them too much, but I wish that there was some kind of organic-compatible bug spray solution or other, because I feel bad for them. But the hogs are gonna be Certified™ Organic next season so there’s no more room for messing about.) (I have no idea if people fly-spray their hogs like we used to for our horses. Is that a thing? It’s not as bad on pasture as if they were confined but it’s still, IDK, I feel bad for them.)
(Your picture was not posted)
