kentucky deer woes
Kentucky is home to about 900,000 deer, and most are rarely seen. A few make themselves at home in backyards, however, where they:
Eat shrubbery or munch other expensive landscaping.
Trample flowerbeds.
Send neighborhood dogs into a barking or howling frenzy.
Mix with traffic, resulting in thousands of vehicle-whitetail collisions, damaged cars, soaring insurance rates, injuries and even an occasional human fatality.
“People like deer, and they are amazing animals,” said Yancy, a whitetail research biologist for the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. “But there seems to be a love-hate relationship with them. Especially in some urban areas.”
Big-game managers at the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources use a complex series of computer models and field data to estimate the number of deer in a county or area. How dense are the deer where you live? Here’s a sampling.
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January 4th, 2007 at 2:26 am
We usually have 3 to 4 deer per night on our 3 acres. Sometimes as many as 7 or 8. I guess that messes up the average.
Deers are also very territorial out here. They have chased the dog back up to the house and our cat leaves the area and hides when he spots a deer.