Shot For Tulips - Save Cayuga Heights Deer

"Is one of the most educated communitiesin America losing its mind?

Cayuga Heights has been said to have the most Ph.Ds per capita of any municipality in America. Yet today, its trustees are on the verge of approving an expensive, dangerous, and frankly bizarre plan that if put into effect, is certain to put a serious dent in our communitys well-deserved reputation for sensible, compassionate, and forward-thinking public policy.

As most people in Ithaca know, there has been a controversy around the fate of the deer in Cayuga Heights, whose appetite for tulips, heirloom tomatoes, and ornamental shrubbery has, in the minds of the current mayor and trustees, created a situation so dire and unacceptable, that action of the most extreme sort is not only justified, but urgently required.

According to the plan now being considered, every single deer in the village is slated to be violated or killed. The first phase involves capturing 60 female deer, surgically sterilizing them, then puncturing their ears with numbered tags and encumbering their necks with radio collars. These are the lucky individuals. The intended fate of every other deer in Cayuga Heights, including pregnant does and fawns, is to be shot dead at 8 to 10 undisclosed bait sites in our neighborhood backyards. This annual massacre, to become a part of our local culture, will be carried out by out-of-town contractors who earn their living exterminating wildlife.

fawnThe ethical grotesquery of this plan appears to be lost on those who conceived it, who seem to be oblivious to the mental and emotional torture that will be experienced by the few deer chosen to survive, not to mention the many people who care about these gentle animals. Year after year, deer in and around Cayuga Heights will be lured by piles of corn into the kill zone, and those marked for survival will watch as their herd mates are brutally killed right in front of them. Were such a sadistic policy to be carried out against dogs or cats, or horses, an outraged crowd of us would spontaneously rise up to stop it. But the deer, ironically, because they live free of direct human control and are no individuals private property, are somehow seen as unworthy of moral consideration.

Do we really want to live in a society where bureaucrats meet behind closed doors to arbitrarily decide how many of each species are allowed to live, then send technicians out to mark the few chosen to survive as ornamental reminders of a bygone era, doomed to move among us as freaks festooned with the trappings of their utter domination by humans? Do we want to cover the eyes and ears of our children as unsuspecting animals are methodically executed in our neighbors backyards?

I have anywhere from five to fourteen deer in my yard daily. I enjoy them, as does my neighbor. I have watched them grow up and feel like they are part of my home now. I have watched a young buck take care of an orphan all year, with the fawn nursing at any mother that would let her. My deer friends are not aggressive but so gentle. It breaks my heart that they may be killed."


Much more details and contact information
Go here
http://www.cayugadeer.org/index.htm
Way at the bottom you will see

Thank you



Please learn about deer birth control

http://www.pzpinfo.org/pzp_faqs.html

Plus other non-lethal options.

http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/DOE/2%20-%20What%20DOE%20Can%20Do%20for%20Y...

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[kittyweese]

People can be so hideous. We perpetrate most of the violence in the world then at this time of year have the nerve to go about singing joyously "Peace on Earth." Yeah, right.

[NepheshAngel]

I have always said that myself about "peace of earth" how lame to use it es during this time of the year (hunting season) when our wildlife are murdered by human fecal matter called sports hunters..

[dovad16]

Alas, all people are raised to be speciesist...designating one species as of greater worth than another. As you say, people so regard horses that it would be unthinkable to them to do this to them. Poor humans, unable to detect that these fellow creatures have souls no less then themselves. Men's inability to develop a "reverence for life" results in the behavor you described.

[NepheshAngel]

Some believe that their beloved pets will go to heaven meaning they do believe animals have a soul which included deer, cows, pigs, elks, bears and all kinds of life in the animal kingdom not just their pets.

[dovad16]

I agree with that belief. They have a soul no less than you or I according to my belief, and will be given an extension of life. As to whether or not they go to a place such as heaven, I do not know.

[NepheshAngel]

They have a better chance at heaven then most humans on this planet and I know in my heart if heaven exist that is where the murdered deer are and where they will go. Those who kill for self gratification (sports and fun) will not be there maybe to hell or purgatory but not in heaven.

[BlitzenReindeer]

:'(