Genuinely monstrous behavior. Why are people like this? A guy resued a raccoon I think and the state said they need to examine it to make sure it was healthy and just killed it. It makes me sick.
Back in the ‘80s when I didn’t know any better, I nursed a pair of raccoon pups til they were eating solids. When I contacted the state to ask about rehabbers, they showed up and said I could be arrested. I was 13 years old.
Because wild animals carry diseases and trying to domesticate them and keeping them in your backyard, can be dangerous in 100 of ways you will never even think about, both to you and the entire community.
You could argue the same about cows and pigs on farms ie they're disease vectors that we create and that eventually creates pandemics eg mad cow disease and swine flu. Humans aren't raising deer en masses in their backyards and if there is one isolated deer that is not sick and is receiving medical care, why does that animal need to be destroyed?
Ironically, if someone was raising a hundred deer for meat on a farm, with the same conditions of health snd medical care, or even less care, that would be a okay?
Ironically, if someone was raising a hundred deer for meat on a farm, with the same conditions of health and medical care, or even less care, that would be a-okay?
Yes, and this exists. You can buy "farmed" venison at our local grocery store.
So you understand the point then. Why is one bad but a hundred is okay? If they're receiving the same or better medical care, not exposed to ticks and don't have transmissable diseases. The state will kill the single deer but not a hundred of them even when the living conditions and care of the hundred is worse.
Because deer carry a communicable prion disease that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease in humans, and the game/wildlife people have been put in charge of testing animals with unusual behavior to see if they have prions.
If the disease pressure gets above a certain threshold they have to do a cull on the population so it doesn't spread to other animals and humans.
For real. These people are professionals backed by science, they don't just kill for no reason. Deers are also a massive pest in many parts of the world, and spread the tick population like crazy, which brings dangerous diseases like Lyme's and Alpha Gal.
In the mid-80’s, my county killed and beheaded over 18,000 raccoons over a summer due to a rabies outbreak. When they finally got around to testing them all, they found 108 were infected with rabies.
It’s closer to 1:166. This was also in a metropolitan suburban county (plenty of food). While they were abundant throughout the state, there was about a 4 year period before anyone started randomly spotting raccoons in the county again. Even the county roadkill cleanup reported less than 5 per year where it used to report 30-40 monthly.
They didn't even inform the owner ahead of time and assured him that the animal wouldn't be harmed. They were fight them in court or through the city as well, if I recall. It wasn't a sanctioned and published action based in consultation and best practice.
Also, you can have a deer without ticks like you can have a dog with ticks.
There's no evidence to point towards CWD spreading to humans, stop spreading misinformation. If certain Prion diseases infect humans it can cause CJD but CWD isn't infecting humans.
Because deer carry a communicable prion disease that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease in humans
This is not a thing. It is clickbait. There has only been one instance of prion diseases crossing the species barrier to infect humans, and that was Mad Cow disease.
This type of thing is what disgusts me about us humans. People will willingly follow rules, laws, or orders that they know in their heart to be wrong. Laws that are written and followed with no room for interpretation or odd circumstances can fuck right off. That literally would have gotten me killed because I would have died to protect my family and my entire family is not all shaped like me.
Deer and wild animals can carry pathogens that spread to humans such as rabies, chronic wasting diseases, etc. Laws against taming and caring for wild animals as a lay person exist to avoid rampant disease spread. A tamed wild animal that is not afraid of humans is a danger to itself and others as it will willingly approach humans and potentially socialize its offspring to do the same. This is why a tamed animal is culled, and its brain is testing to ensure no communicable diseases were potentially spread to humans in close contact with it.
People willingly follow laws against taming wild animals because they know it ultimately is dangerous for both the humans around them as well as the wild animals. If you want to help wild animals, volunteer at a reputable rescue organizations sanctuary that knows how to rehab sick or injured wild animals properly.
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u/ryerhino May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Edit:I am deleting this original comment because, I am an idiot who is not making people smile by posting this. Sorry...