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I'm sure I don't care. A whole block fulla Massengill...you fit right in.
Sounds like to me from your bitter angry posts blaming everyone and everything else it isn’t LI that had the dbag attitude problem it was you. Good riddance. I pity your neighbors in NC you must be a treat to be around.
That because we’ve consumed so much of their natural habitat with overdevelopment. The deer on the island are also unhealthier and tick infested.
Oh please, let's stop deflecting with silly hyperbole. LI's deer issue is mostly restricted to the pine barrens and a bit in the national shore areas. Upstate is a nightmare. Deer on people's lawns, all over the roads. Explosion of lyme disease and auto collisions. It's only 2 hours away. We've been there. Driving through Sullivan and Ulster county at night is a deer slalom course. LI isn't. LI sucks, yes, but let's stick to the reality. In fairness, one of the problems is as those regions grow w/ NYC expats, fewer people hunt. Getting overrun by deer, but a new Whole Foods will open. It's a delicate balance.
Oh please, let's stop deflecting with silly hyperbole. LI's deer issue is mostly restricted to the pine barrens and a bit in the national shore areas. Upstate is a nightmare. Deer on people's lawns, all over the roads. Explosion of lyme disease and auto collisions. It's only 2 hours away. We've been there. Driving through Sullivan and Ulster county at night is a deer slalom course. LI isn't. LI sucks, yes, but let's stick to the reality. In fairness, one of the problems is as those regions grow w/ NYC expats, fewer people hunt. Getting overrun by deer, but a new Whole Foods will open. It's a delicate balance.
The fact remains that LI is a hotspot for Lyme disease and our growing population of and over abundance of deer, albeit mostly concentrated in Suffolk, are exacerbating the problems that come with overdevelopment. In terms of scale, the Island can’t compare to semi-rural Orange County and likely never will in terms of deer population and incidents, you’re right. We’re an isolated Island in the midst of a metropolis. Orange County abuts unadulterated wilderness. Apples and oranges. Your article proves my point, as suburban sprawl into deer territory attracts and cultivates deer populations since they can thrive in areas with human food, gardens, and no hunting. And lack of hunting isn’t the problem, your article points to the fact that over 220,000 deer per year are harvested by hunters. Hunting in suburbia isn’t the solution either. Avoiding overdevelopment and not treating deer like they’re your pets and feeding them or enabling them to eat from your yard is.
Holy crap.
Deer are scapegoats. They are not the primary spreaders of ticks. Fact. 100%.
They are big, they eat up my landscape, and scare the crap out of me every time one of them darts out in front of me in the dark at 2AM. They don't sneak into my house, have babies and proceed to crap all over the place, chew up electric wires, gnaw through the kitchen cabinets, food, and anything else they get their teeth on.
Holy crap.
Deer are scapegoats. They are not the primary spreaders of ticks. Fact. 100%.
They are big, they eat up my landscape, and scare the crap out of me every time one of them darts out in front of me in the dark at 2AM. They don't sneak into my house, have babies and proceed to crap all over the place, chew up electric wires, gnaw through the kitchen cabinets, food, and anything else they get their teeth on.
They might be disproportionately shouldering more of the tick spreading burden than they statistically should be, but take one look at a scrawny one engulfed in flies and who knows what else and tell me they don’t have tics. Regardless, you make a valid point, and people need to consider the role smaller critters and their populations play in spreading tick borne illnesses.
They don't sneak into my house, have babies and proceed to crap all over the place, chew up electric wires, gnaw through the kitchen cabinets, food, and anything else they get their teeth on.
speaking of deer, I was in Phoenix this past week and noticed something strange sticking out of the front of a Nissan Versa. Looked like two little pipes. My DH told me they are deer whistles. They make a loud annoying sound that deer's can't stand so they run away when they hear it. There is a huge deer population there and most cars have this.
speaking of deer, I was in Phoenix this past week and noticed something strange sticking out of the front of a Nissan Versa. Looked like two little pipes. My DH told me they are deer whistles. They make a loud annoying sound that deer's can't stand so they run away when they hear it. There is a huge deer population there and most cars have this.
That’s wild, wonder what one of those costs. Maybe something people in the northeast should consider.
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