Poaching? You don't need to poach 'em. Walk and put a leash on them. The deer are nearly domesticated in AL.

verry true

I'm going to agree with this. I've said before...I run the Kopf Reservation regularly and those deer don't even consider moving out of your way. They just sit there and look at you.

It is outrageous that the city government of Avon Lake has allowed the deer herd to proliferate to the point where we property owners are being overrun! Property destruction is well documented and it’s a matter of outrage but what the city is allowing to happen to the deer is abhorrent.

Deer are being maimed, they must scrounge for whatever food they can find because of over population and more. If the city doesn’t care about property owners at least they should do the right thing for the deer by reducing the herd! If the law is getting in the way, council should change it.

We have a serious deer problem and council needs to have the “will” to take action. While no one should condone breaking the law and if there is poaching which I seriously doubt, at least someone is doing something - the city is not. If there is poaching the police should prosecute perpetrators but the answer is the city taking steps to reduce the herd which will benefit everyone including the deer!

I love that people think the deer pop has exploded just because we see more of them. WE have been encroaching on THEIR habitat for years, and rapid development in Avon Lake and the surrounding areas has kettled them in residential areas by cutting them off from their habitat.
If Avon Lake wants to cull the herd I'm ok with that, but it should be transparent, well advertised, safe, (slinking around at night with a bow is decidedly NOT safe) and lets make sure the venison is processed at a local Avon Lake owned butcher, and the meat donated to the homeless or needy families.

Agreed! The reality in Avon Lake is that the deer have become a safety issue. It's nice to pretend they're all Bambi, but they cause accidents on the roads because their natural fear response is now gone.
The choices are:
1.let them slowely starve because there are too many deer for the available space.
2: Let cars "cull" them
3: let people with no experience run around at night acting out some robin hood fantasy until they shoot a dog or a child. Or themselves

maybe we need to start poaching people

I agree. We are the ones who make them this way with all the building and development going on. They are not dangerous at all and if you don't want them eating your plants then build a high fence around them. There are more humane solutions. We need to COEXIST people!

Now if we could only get them to obey the traffic rules and look both ways before crossing...

Let's just kill all the deer! Then we'll have no need for woods and we can put up more unmemorable, cookie cutter sub-developments that really add some great value to the city!

I agree with Erika. It's only by luck that I haven't hit one yet but that's a certainty for all of us if the herd continues unabated. Folks, there's no wolves here to control the population so unless you want the wolves back we have to start culling.

There are wolves in Avon Lake - one was found out on Lake Erie last year stuck on the ice.

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