Please write to make a difference, this is very sad, exploting a beautiful creature!

[jennifert]

Actually Ann, althought I dont' know much about it, there is a "mad deer" disease also. I just happened to see something about it on the news the day before yesterday....It seems to be on the increase....Maybe it's only here in America?

[Edwina's Secretary]

There is a disease in the deer population -- very controversial right now -- I believe it is called wasting disease (?) It is supposedly similar to mad cow.

Wisconsin has some problems. I not sure of where else but that might be what you are thinking about....

For those who eat deer and elk, are you not afraid of catching that disease that makes you crazy

Lots of different opinions on it!

(And I shall keep mine to myself!)

[luckies4me]

Yes that was what I was referring to. It is called something else though, just can't remember what! There has been a few people die from it already too, very sad.

[anna_66]

If you want to hunt, be my guest...
If you want to stuff animals & put them on your walls or what ever, be my guest...
And if you want to eat all that meat or give it away to the hungry, that's awesome!
But I personally could never hunt, or have any stuffed animals in my house.
And I can't stand the taste of wild game meat. I like meat & all, I just can't stand to see something alive & then eat it later or see it staring at me in my home, yuk!

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Yes, it's called Chronic Wasting Disease, and it is spreading in Wisconsin in the deer population. So far it is mostly confined to a small area in the western part of the state. There have been no human fatalities from it, although we did have some deaths this past summer from encephalitis and West Nile virus going around. I did hear about some fatalities from the similar disease "mad cow", or Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD), that at first were thought to be from CWD. My husband had decided that he would go ahead and eat any venison that he got, but -- he got skunked this year, so not a worry. (I've never liked the taste of venison, so I never eat it anyway.)

Ramanth - I tried to find "Jimmy" online, but the only place that he was available has discontinued him!! No Jimmies for us this Xmas.......

[Ann]

Oh really? Well, I've never heard of that so it's probably just in the USA... However, I don't think you can go crazy or anything like that from eating mad cow meat... Of course, I could be wrong again

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by Ann
As for whoever it was that said it was okay to hunt wild cats because they can hurt kids, I have only one thing to say to you: Move. They were there before you, humans are the ones building houses and chopping down forests to put up another McDonalds, they are not the ones going into your original homes and shooting your kids to display their skin on their mantle.

I couldn't agree enough! I hate seeing on the news that they've tracked down and killed a shark/bear/mtn. lion because it hurt someone. HELLO!?!?! The land/ocean belongs to them, they can't go buy property, fence it in and have food delievered. We were the ones who have infringed upon them. I hate that mentality...if it worries you so much that your children could get hurt...don't let them outside. Or, as Ann said...move!