Comments on: First Deer In Florida Confirmed With Chronic Wasting Disease. Here’s What To Know.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:26:31 +0000

@ 12 years ago I was fishing for mullet at fish river bridge and witnessed pelicans starving to death. Later on the news they told about pelicans found dead off Mobile AL. Nobody ever followed up on the story…. They sent the birds for autopsy and found they had starved to death. They were protected right up to the limit of the food supply and nature took over.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:29:52 +0000

I had a deer that came around and wanted to be my pet. He would walk 10 steps, then bend his head down and eat whatever was nearby, then take 10 more steps and eat whatever was nearby. This went on all day. He ate the spiky shrubs that grew under the trees. He ate the weeds I pulled. He was like a goat, eating anything and everything. There’s plenty of food for them. They won’t starve because they’ll simply sleep in a farmers field and wake up and eat. They aren’t starving outside of this disease, but yes, there’s too many of them standing around being useless and destroying everyone’s stuff like democrats. More hunting is needed, not because there isn’t enough food, but because there aren’t enough decently sized natural predators and you wouldn’t want those around anyway because they’d also eat your children.

By: n.godwin

n.godwin — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 05:19:15 +0000

if the developers would quit destroying the deer habitats then maybe they would not eat the crops–they are hungry and have no where to go.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:42:58 +0000

A friend who’s a farmer has special license to shoot deer that are destroying his crops. Ofteh kills hundreds of them each year. Cannot harvest them even for charitable groups but has to report to wildlife folks.
Says the herds of deer are increasing and ‘hunting season’ barely makes a dent in the population.
As to Chronic Wasting, has just been a matter of time and nature for it to appear in Florida.

By: tg

tg — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:58:08 +0000

Cars are not thinning the heard fast enough.

By: Taree Huggers

Taree Huggers — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:28:49 +0000

There are too many deer folks. They are causing traffic accidents, eating peoples fields and gardens, and now spreading disease because of population density. People need to stop interfering with the natural process by feeding them year round. Changing hunting regulations would also help.

By: Roge

Roge — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:32:36 +0000

Two decades ago wildlife officials across the country reduced the number of deer which could be harvested by hunters thus increasing the number of deer. At the same time the deer’s habitat grows smaller every year as the human population grows. Is it Chronic Wasting Disease or siply starvation? The end result is the same.