October 14, 2025

Oh My Deer!

The City Coumcil wants to hire a professional group to decrease the city’s deer population because deer cause accidents and eat flowers.

May I remind you that the city could save a lot of money and stop buying signs that say “stop”, “slow down”, “road obstruction ahead” or “watch out for deer” because when a driver sees the doe and her fawns in the road, they usually stop or at least slow down for a better look. Often they stop to take pictures. Not many cars will step on the gas when the deer walk casually across the street.

Further, you should welcome the deer who voluntarily clean your brick walls from unwanted ivy, chomp down invasive growth from your back yard and even cut down those pesky flowers that grow uninvited in your garden.

If you really want the deer to leave, just step outside, make a loud noise and wave your arms up and down wildly. They will skeedaddle and you’ll get some exercise.

The professional killers promise (at a substantial price }to destroy 50 to 100 deer before the deer become “educated” and learn to avoid the lethal arrows or bullets What are you all afraid of? That deer will become so numerous as to take over the city? How many towns in Ohio have you ever heard of where the deer have swamped council meetings? Taken over the police departments? Overwhelmed Board of Education meetings? We would all probably be better off if they DID go to Washington and take over congress.

So without being maudlin or religious, may I remind you that deer are God’s creatures and are deserving of life as much as you and me. Leave them alone. There is nothing to fear. If you want to educate them, teach them to read.