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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (31684)2/23/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I don't know about a moose in Manhattan. That sounds like something someone who wrote for the New Yorker would write - - the old New Yorker, someone Ross would have been able to tolerate. "A Moose in Manhattan." By Cleveland Amory. Or E.B. White.

I don't think the deer in Fairfax are starving, anyway. They seem to be fat and sleek, to me. We live a half mile from Eleanor Lawrence park, a wildlife preserve, and there are herds of deer in there. If I walk through the park (hike, really, it's hiking trails) I always see several deer. Come Christmas time they have a tendency to wander into the neighboring suburbs in search of lawns to eat. Several times around Christmas time I have noticed awfully lifelike deer ornaments in the neighbors' yards, and then realized that they were not ornaments. I have seen as many as a dozen deer at one time grazing on a powerline right-of-way in the park.

I can't remember the number of deer-motor vehicle accidents there are every year in Fairfax, the number 500 comes to mind. A few people are killed every year in deer-motor vehicle accidents. I think the locals want to cull the deer for the sake of the humans, not the deer. This is widely resisted by folks who have never run into a deer at 55 mph late at night.
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