You know your deer population is out of control when...

I was driving home this morning and saw a large light colored animal in someone's front yard.  I was marveling at the strange color of deer and worrying about its unusual movement pattern as I was having a hard time judging if it was about to leap into the road.  Then I realized it was a large dog.  I live in a medium sized city and there are at least three different herds within half a mile of my house.

I look out any of the windows of my house and see deer ....

Sounds like not enough folks in Texas have a liking for fresh venison.
Grilled with butter and thyme in a cast iron pan or slow cooked over a wood fire mmm good.
Casie lives in town, a bit hard to safely harvest deer there.
I believe Anne might have feeders set up on her land to feed the deer, probably not too many venison steaks being grilled at her home.
We should just encourage folks in Texas to have more venison BBQs, meet the neighbors, eat good food, and maybe have a cold beer if you like such things.
They claim that cattle poop is causing the ozone layer to deteriorate, I bet those tiny deer poops are as well!
We must protect the earth and eat more deer...after all, we don't want casie to crash into any on her way around town!

The problem with urban deer herds is that without any predators the quickly outgrow the food supply.  They are often either malnourished from subsisting on the corn and other unhealthy choices people feed them or flat out starving. Venison makes the best chili and responsible hunting let's the deer live much higher quality lives.

There was just 1 obvious herd when we moved into this subdivision 10 years ago. I  always knew when deer hunting season started cause that was the only time you saw them in populated areas.  I don't hunt for some reasons that have nothing to do with objecting to the practice, so this was often my only notice.

This city is one of the fastest growing in the country and there are fewer and fewer places nearby to hunt. With 3 herds now, I am starting to notice them getting skinnier. They are always in people's yards even as people run and walk their dogs.  

There's nowhere else for them to go and without the irrigation or lawns and gardens there would be nothing for them to eat.  It's hard to object when they eat my roses if they don't have other options.

It's that way here too in Tennessee. We not only have deer herds in our city, but one night in the spring ten coyotes showed up in our yard and we found a dead deer in our backyard a few days later. We live on a quarter of an acre, in the city! It is mind-boggling.

There's such an issue in Oak Bay and Saanich East on the southern tip of Vancouver Isl, that they've put the deer on birth control medication of some sort. The news report was short on details so I don't know if they had to anesthetize the deer and implant something, or if they could shoot it into them with some sort of injection rifle. Either way, you can bet it was pricey *and* it will be an ongoing expense, but it's absolutely crucial to keep the remaining deer healthy.

There are far more deer in North America than there were 400 years ago. They're destroying ecosystems in areas that can't recover and as Rachel experienced, they're enticing predators into urban areas where they'll learn to target dogs, cats and small humans.

The population does go up and down somewhat, but this year is an up year in my area - I can tell because of how much honking and brake squealing happens on the road out front! Unfortunately, neighbors objected to my inviting a really good bow-hunter on my land, so I'm out of the deer harvesting business.

Birth control for deer:

The single-shot, multiyear vaccine stimulates the
production of antibodies that bind to GnRH. GnRH
is a hormone in an animal’s body that signals the
production of sex hormones (e.g., estrogen, proges-
terone, and testosterone). By binding to GnRH, the
antibodies reduce GnRH’s ability to stimulate the
release of these sex hormones. All sexual activity is
decreased, and animals remain in a nonreproductive
state as long as a sufficient level of antibody activity is present

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwrc/downloads/faq_gonacon_07.pdf