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Originally Posted by wodin
When I was growing up in rural Wisconsin, it was a real treat to see a deer grazing in a field, and sometimes a year or two would pass without seeing any. And other wildlife, except rabbits and squirrels was nearly as rare.
I went back to visit my aging mother a few years ago, and the place was a veritable zoo. The deer were everywhere; at one point I was forced to stop and let a whole herd of them cross the road while the buck stood in the middle of the road staring at me while his harem crossed. I saw wild turkeys, raccoons, foxes, bald eagles, badgers, and even a great horned owl.
The farmers hate it, the critters decimate their crops!
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It was worse a couple of summers ago. I left to go pick up Chris from work at 10:30 at night, and I had Jay (my son) with me. He says, "Mom, what's that at the end of the block?" It was a deer. We don't live on the outskirts of town, either, this is a fairly surrounded residential neighborhood. Same summer, I was coming home my usual route and a deer bounded in front of me across N. Court St. - trying to get to a green patch behind our local car dealership. Scary.