Deer crashes through Chuck E Cheese

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Customers at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant got more than they bargained for when a deer crashed through the restaurant. The deer jumped through the window at the pizza restaurant at Southern Hills Mall on Sunday.

No one was hurt, said Kris Walter, a mall spokeswoman.

She said a couple of guys jumped on top on the deer and held it down until officials from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources arrived.

The deer was injured but was able to be taken out of town and turned loose, Walter said.

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Information from: Sioux City Journal,
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com
Source: Sioux City Journal

Americas Deadliest Big Game Animal

If I were to ask you what you thought America's deadliest big game animal was, what would you say? This animal kills or injures more people every year than any other animal. Would you say the grizzly bear or maybe the mountain lion? You would probably be very surprised when I told you that the white-tailed deer not only causes more human deaths and injuries but also causes more damage and destruction than any other big game animal.


Over 120 people are killed in the United States each year in deer-related car crashes, and hundreds more are injured. This far surpasses the few deaths and injuries caused by mountain lions and grizzly bears.

According to the Insurance Information Institute, average cost of damage to each of the 300,000 vehicles involved in collisions with deer each year is over $600, totaling more than $180 million.

Deer cause enormous damage to farm crops and suburban landscaping as well. Biologists studying declining bird populations, including woodcock, believe there is a link to the consumption of habitat by deer.

Another growing problem caused by deer is Lyme disease and two new diseases, Ehrlichiosis and Babesiosis, all three carried by deer ticks. About 14,000 new cases of Lyme disease alone are reported in the United States annually. These tick bites are not just coming from the deep woods but from people's backyards in their urban neighborhoods.

Sixty-five years ago it would have been laughable to imagine too many deer in North America. There was even concern at that time that they would soon be extinct. Today there are more than 25 million white-tailed deer and 5 million mule deer in the United States, and the populations continue to climb.

The cause of the deer population explosion is multifaceted. Foremost, state conservation departments have for decades been successfully managing deer for hunting by providing the animals with food, cover and protection. Additionally the 65 million people who feed birds in their backyards have also successfully managed deer by unwittingly providing optimum habitat.
Nature has also had a hand in the success. Prior to the 1980s, winter kill was a part of the deer management formula. But the mild winters in the past decade have resulted in very little mortality.

The only effective way to reduce deer populations is to cull them, preferably by hunting. Many conservation departments have dramatically increased their deer permits for both residents and non-residents.

This can help, but more controversial is how to control deer in urban and suburban areas and people's backyards where public hunting is either not permitted or is impractical. Numerous methods of control have been attempted, from trapping to contraceptives, but except for shooting the deer outright, nothing has proven effective.

Urban deer task forces consisting of cross sections of community interests continue to grapple with the problem of what to do with America's deadliest and most destructive big game animal

Find the Deer in this Video

Ok the story behind this video is as follows. This was a commercial that actually made air time. The video however contains something that was captured unintentionally. In this segment of the video clip you watch a car from a distance to the sound of pleasant music. The Car disappears behind some trees. Just as the car re-emerges into view if you look closely you might see a big buck that was moving along the edge of the tree line.

The big buck isn't all that apparent and you have to look closely to see it. The commercial was made without the buck being noticed apparently. Some people have had a hard time seeing the buck initially. But once you see it there it will stick out to you like a sore thumb.

The buck will be about 30 yards from the road on the tree line

Deer Herd increases with Supplemental Feeding

Supplemental feeding of deer is gaining popularity in Wisconsin. Practiced primarily during late autumn, winter, and early spring, deer feeding involves placing grains, apples, hay, and other feeds where deer will find and consume them.

A diverse array of people feed deer. Many are suburbanites who feed a few deer; others provide supplemental food to literally hundreds of deer within deer wintering areas. Deer feeding sites are sometimes maintained by municipalities, which commit a portion of their tax revenues to deer feeding, or by businesses that fund deer feeding operations as a cost of doing business.

People are motivated to feed deer for a variety of reasons. They may believe deer cannot survive winter without supplemental food, or they believe that feeding deer in winter will result in a larger, huntable population the next year. Suburban landowners may believe supplemental foods will divert deer away from expensive shrubbery, hence reducing landscaping costs. Others simply enjoy seeing deer at close range. Some business owners know that attracting deer also attracts customers.

Deer Hunting 2006 an amazing Success

Well, another Deer Hunting Season has come and gone. The tallies are in an all I can say is
DeerBeards Rule Baby!!

Needless to say, we slayed numerous deer, ate pounds of jerky, chili and velveta sandwiches.

DB STATS 2006

• Deer Killed = 6
• Shots Taken = 14

We will be updating the site over the next couple days, sharing pictures, videos, stories and more...

OGB

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As bloggers, we have a certain responsibility to uphold a level of impartiality, to report what happens, not what we would like to have happened. In this post I am just documenting the facts, as they happened and frankly, I have no idea what the #%&^% this guy was thinking......

Deer Population surge results in City organized Hunts

City across the midwest are starting to allow the hunting of white-tailed deer on city-owned property. The towns are even going so far as to ask large property owners who might consider opening their backyards to hunters to register with police.

The Pound Ridge Town Board voted Oct. 5 to allow bow-hunters with valid state licenses to hunt on three pieces of town land - 63 acres off Winterbottom Lane, 19 acres of Sachs Park and 17 acres off Horseshoe Hill Road.

Why? Pound Ridge, like much of the Lower Hudson Valley, is overrun with deer - five times as many as the environment can sustain, town officials say. Suburban development has reduced the habitat for the natural predators of deer, including hunters, and left the deer free to eat everything in sight. There are whole tracks of woodlands and forests where few branches are left within a deer's reach. Few shoots grow from the forest floor, few spring wildflowers live long enough to bloom. While the deer are having a feast, the birds and other beasts that call the forest understory home, are left without.

Pound Ridge isn't alone in taking action.

A couple of years ago, New York City's Department of Environmental Protection opened 330 acres of land in surrounding the Kensico Reservoir in North Castle - called the Big Peninsula - to deer hunting for the first time. They even gave out prizes like venison cookbooks and headlamps, and reduced the hunting age to 14 (with a parent) as an incentive to draw more hunters to its property. Next year, the DEP plans to open even more land, nearly 36,000 acres to deer hunting.

Why, you might ask, is New York City so desperately seeking hunters? It turns out that the saplings and ground cover that the deer eat help filter the water that flows through watershed properties and ultimately comes out of the tap.

Even organizations that are notoriously animal-friendly have called for increased deer hunting, for example the New Jersey Audubon Society, which opposed the state's bear hunt, began advocating for deer hunting last year and is considering allowing hunters onto some of its own property.

The Audubon folks were reluctant to endorse deer hunting, and so are we. But song birds, trees, wildflowers and water quality need protection, too.