No. You don't. they are voracious eaters and eat anything. They have decimated my holly bushes, moved the cover off the strawberries and ate ALL the fruit, and a deer tick gave my poor baby (a chocolate lab) both Lyme disease and Anaplasmosis. I need to be checked too. I am so getting ready to learn to hunt AND learn to like venison. Can I send the plethora of deer in my area to you?

I am so afraid of hitting a deer during rutting season. They do so much damage to vehicles. They also damage all the vegetation. We currently live in a small town, which is city life to me. My husband wants to sell the house and move to the country. I am afraid of wild critters and have no desire to live there. This is a quandry for us. He wants a big shed and if I consent to moving, I want my own shed for quilting!

Deer are beautiful creatures, but they can be destructive to plants (especially gardens) We have a doe and 2 fawns that pass through our yard daily. They are fun to watch. I believe they have been nibbling on our green beans.

I like wildlife ... alive and from a distance. If I'm in their territory, I respect it and behave accordingly. I surrounded "my" territory with a 6' wood fence and will insist (usually with the unsolicited help of three large canines) that critters remain on the opposite side.

Mine.
Yours.

I don't need the problems that they bring with them. I don't need/want the fleas or ticks they carry, or the diseases that they could spread. I don't need/want the injuries that could result from a "meeting" where they feel threatened or emboldended during rut. I've seen cute, pretty, Doe Deer SHREAD a large dog with her hooves - a dog that was a good 30' from the Doe's fawn and walking in the opposite direction. I've seen Bull Elk break through a chain link fence and destroy wood decking because his harem was near and he didn't want the people sitting on the deck to get any closer. I was one of the people ON that deck (not for long mind you!).

I've also seen far too often what Deer can do to an automobile (and themselves) so I support hunting to thin the herd as Deer no longer have any natural predators (other than the inevitable starvation if the herd isn't thinned).

So I probably would have enjoyed the Doe in the driveway for a breif moment - then would have taken immediate meausres to insure that future visits were not welcome.