What a shock we had yesterday to wake up to this sight right next door to us? Our deer neighbor and friend is out of town and we are kind of glad because walking out to get your newspaper to this scene could cause hysteria on a Sunday morning. We are deerly hoping it will be gone upon our neighbor's arrival home today. So far several calls to environmental and animal control have not stirred up a quick response but with the SMELL that is causing a little grumbling around here, I suppose we will get some action going here very soon.
The deer appears to have no visable injury or shot marks so all we can conclude is that she got hit from a car up the road and made it as far to this walkway and just dropped dead. One thing for sure, the sight of this and it's SMELL is deerly noted among the neighbors here. Well, I better go for now and call those environmental control people one more time.
quick little update- the environmental "control" people pulled up just around 12:30pm today with a big garbage truck with the big claws on top. Of future note to any of you who might find a dead animal in your driveway or walkway, the city will not pull into the driveway (the rules) and they will not touch the animal even with gloves on but they will offer you their gloves to haul it up to the street upon which they will then pick it up with the claws. After much "friendly" discussion between the two city workers and myself and another neighbor threatening to call the local newspaper and having to call the mayor himself, the dead deer got clawed up off the end of the driveway ...only after the other neighbor pulled it on a tarp up to the end of the driveway...whew...drama in the cul de sac was kind of exciting, smelly, and unsightly. One thing I learned is I have some really good close knit neighbors and the neighborhood watch thing really works!!! Blog fans, be thankful for them and be nice to your neighbors today! You never know when you might need them.
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