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amacmil304@aol.com writes
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>But the public don't regard deer as pests.
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That's not true, Angus. Try talking to people in southern England whose 
market gardens and orchards, let alone private gardens, are being 
subject to serious damage by Roe Deer and Muntjacs.

See, e.g.:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/article51962.ece
written over three years ago.

-- 
Malcolm