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Originally Posted by easy62
Also remember when deer go into rutt they will stop at nothing and will dart out on roads and highways to get their mate.It starts in late October to late November and then their is hunting season so they are on the run from the hunters. I lived in rural area of Metro Detroit and was hit twice by deer in my car and F150 I had, and like any deer in the north they were big didn’t do anything to the deer they took off but tore up my pickup and car.
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Boy, you are not lying!
A couple of years ago I was picking up my youngest from elementary school when a few young males charged the schoolyard just as the children were flooding out the doors.
Luckily a school aide saw them flying towards them & they got all the kids back inside. I was in my car on the street that they “crossed” & one of them just bounced right over the top of my Dodge Durango. The guy in front of me was on a motorcycle we were in bumper to bumper traffic, he was kind of stuck.
In Colorado at 7,000 ft elevation, wildlife has always posed some consideration (we are not innocent in this ... We encroached on them here first) but a law of nature is that where there is prey ... there will be predators. The Waldo Canyon fire in 2012 destroyed their natural “cover” that protected them to a certain extent & I honestly think that they feel safer now as “urban deer” than to return to the inconsistent foliage of the national forest that borders us.
We struggled with diseased & hungry packs of Coyotes in 2013, an increased incidence of Mountain Lions recently & the apparently now obligatory Bears.
And the weirdest thing I notice now is on our west side with the small herds of females & young: Using the sidewalk & crossing at the crosswalks? It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. Regardless of my observations, the Colorado Dept of Transportation reports that the total amount of Deer killed on the roadways for 2011 (pre-fire) was 545, while 2016 had 926!
Now our city council is considering whether or not to allow “urban hunting”.
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