I’m torn on this one.
On the one hand, I understand the indiscriminate hunger of deer and the damage they can do to a landscape, or your carefully tended garden. In a single night, they can ravage months of work in the vegetable beds.
Other times, they can do so much cosmetic damage to a landscape that repairing it is a costly and frustrating experience, if repair is even possible.
But, on the other hand, I really like deer.
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They’re beautiful animals. Stumbling upon and startling a doe in the wild is an exhilarating moment; she takes off like lightning and bounds effortlessly through undergrowth and treelines alike. I’ve even seen a doe clear a two-lane road in a single bound.
These are stunning creatures. Stunning creatures, that is, with an insatiable appetite and utter disdain for boundaries.
I’m admittedly soft-hearted when it comes to almost any animal, bird, or bug. I shake my head and say, “Those dang deer… But I guess they’re hungry, I can’t blame ‘em,” every time I spot damage.
Call me an enabler, but I don’t really mind deer doing their thing.
Of course, not everybody feels that way. For most folks, deer are an intolerable nuisance and the bane of a gardener’s existence.
I understand this, and have worked for enough clients who disdain deer and want them banned from their properties to know how to achieve this end.
Going forward, let’s remember a key facet of gardening that applies doubly to deer duty:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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