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Tayo Johnson
From:acs6455@aol.com
Sent:Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:41 AM
To:Mary Mills
Subject:deer situation
My name is Anne Serling. I live on Cedar Lane in the village of Lansing. I have attended several of these
meetings and each time, I leave a little more disheartened.
I can only describe the initial proposal to bait and shoot deer in the village of Cayuga Heights as sheer insanity.
I shudder to think of the consequences that such an act would inflict on my neighbors and their children. I think
too of the legal ramifications that such an action could incur if, God forbid, a child or someone else were
accidentally killed.
Now you come forward with this next proposal--this egregious plan to “net and bolt” these creatures. I had to
look away from the video of this and I wonder how ANY of you could even stop for one moment to consider
such an atrocious act.
Mayor Supron has said in a recent newspaper article that 75% of the Village supported killing the deer. Please
tell us where that statistic came from because I have talked to people in Cayuga Heights. Not one, I repeat NOT
ONE has ever been questioned as to their feelings about these proposals.
Those in favor of killing the deer have said that they are violent. For the past twenty five years I have run on
Cayuga Heights Road almost every morning. In those 30,000 plus miles I have, on several occasions, seen deer
and they have seen me. I have never had cause to be fearful. I have never even been approached by these
animals. To categorize them as aggressive or violent is a misrepresentation. You’re looking at the wrong
animal.
I would implore this board to make the right decision. Use sterilization. Raise the fences.
Torture of any species is never the right answer.