Birth Control for Bambi

Dear deer, what will they think of next.

Putting Bambi on the pill is an alternative to hunting and killing for controlling the deer population in some places that are too congested or compassionate to kill, like in some suburban areas of New York where Bambi is causing a lot of garden damage and car crashes. This method of deer control is supported by the Humane Society too because the Humane Society’s focus is to encourage people to tolerate and coexist with wild animals. Geese are another group that are sometimes killed when they become a nuisance because of their numbers but there are some people who feel that killing them or the deer that are overpopulating an area is not an acceptable solution. The residents of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY are volunteering to monitor deer numbers and travel patterns and measure landscape damage and the Humane Society and In Defense of Animals are helping to pay for the birth control experiment that is estimated to cost $30,000 for the first 2 years. The does will have to be treated every 2 or 3 years but once they are captured and tagged the additional doses can be delivered by dart making the program less expensive after the initial outlay.

Any one ready to trade in their bullets for birth control darts?