To the Editor:
I witnessed the second day of deer season how inhumane and unbecoming of the human spirit deer hunting can become. Our land is posted. When my husband heard a shot at the end of the field Sunday afternoon, I walked out to see if anyone was on our property. There wasn't, but the neighbor next to us has had two deer feeders set up all summer and while I scanned the area I saw a deer lying by one of the feeders next to a pine trying to move his legs, he had been shot. I became very angry and started swearing and my neighbor came around the side of his deck. I gave him a piece of my mind including that he should be ashamed of himself, one for shooting a deer off his back deck and leaving it to lie there and two for letting the deer think they had a safe haven in his back yard. He also was not in any hunting apparel. He pretty much told me it wasn't any of my business.
Would you believe, on Monday when I walked out and checked our field and woods, the deer feeders were gone?
Hunting is a privilege that should not be taken lightly. There are those who go out and earn the right to take deer but they do it legally.
Kimberly Goad
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