Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Pål Jensen
Vic wrote: >I have contacted a vet and we are going > to try to tranquilize the animal in the next day or two, remove the arrow and > set it free. There are all kinds of problems we'll have to overcome to make > it a success but the vet thinks it's worth a try Around here injuried animal

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Johnston
> I hope the his bill is not going to be too high Jeez, Vic, that's unusual. I hope you're taking a lot of pictures. Re the vet bill, just make a plea for donations to help pay for an operation to save the doe! You'll be inundated with more money than you know what to do with. People love to

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Brogden
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope the his bill is not going to be too high With all the publicity surrounding this deer, you're not going to have to pay for the vet bill. Either the vet will waive his fee because of the free publicity he's getting, or a radio station will

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Cotty
>but the vet thinks it's worth a try >I hope the his bill is not going to be too high If there's any costs involved, you can try asking for a 'facility fee' from the TV news - they will have contingency budgets for this, and although not astronomical (say a hundred bucks) they will rare

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Keith Whaley
Oh, no in this country, Pål. We pretend they're all the personification of Bambi and Thumper, and Willie the Orca and we lovingly ascribe human characteristics to them, etc., ad nauseum. They're NEVER "just animals." Hollywood and the liberal media and the tree-huggers wouldn't LET them be! And, t

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Cotty
>Let me get this: A deer with an arrow sticking through its head, is coming >regularly to your backyard, but the first one to photograph it was a >newspaper photographer...? >Man, I sure hope when the aliens arrive they'll choose some other PDMLer's >backyard! That's a bit harsh, isn't it? BTW, m

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Keith Whaley
Dan Scott wrote: > > On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:12 AM, Keith Whaley wrote: > > > Oh, no in this country, Pål. We pretend they're all the > > personification of Bambi and Thumper, and Willie the Orca and we > > lovingly ascribe human characteristics to them, etc., ad nauseum. > > They

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Brogden
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Keith Whaley wrote: > Hollywood and the liberal media and the tree-huggers wouldn't LET them > be! If you can't make a point here without resorting to political posturing, then don't make it. Please. I'm sure many of us would love to discuss this ad nausea with you, but let

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Pentxuser
Sorry I have not been able to get to the computer to respond. The deer was eating again from the backyard feeder last night It seems ok I'll try to keep in touch... PS I have not seen the deer yet so I can't get pictures of it. I work afternoons and it always comes when I am at work. The new

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Herb Chong
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >My wife did get some shots last night but she has no idea if they will turn out... Vic < time for the digital. you would know right away. Herb...

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Pentxuser
As you can imagine it's been a crazy couple of days around here. The deer has been here twice today eating out of the feeder. Once at noon and again just now when I came home from work 11:30 p.m. It did not come when the vet, and whole crew ready to try the rescue were in my home from 3p.m. unti

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Pentxuser
Keith the problem I see is that we are all to quick to put animals out of their misery. It's too damned easy to say hell just put a bullet in their head. With a little effort these animals can live a normal life. Maybe if we stop looking for the easy way out this world would be a better place...

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Pentxuser
Well said Mike. Vic In a message dated 1/30/03 3:44:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Finally, it's human nature to sympathize with a suffering creature. It's >not > >necessarily inconsistent to give money to help a doe with an arrow in its > >head while at the same time tolerating the fact th

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-02-01 Thread Keith Whaley
Hi Mike. I purposefully took some time to think this thru before I answered you, so I was actually thinking about my answer instead of just knee-jerk responding to some of your comments. Mike Johnston wrote: > > Warning! Rant mode on. > > > Oh, no in this country, Pål. We pretend they're all th

Re: Injured deer at my home

2003-02-01 Thread Keith Whaley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Keith the problem I see is that we are all to quick to put animals out of > their misery. It's too damned easy to say hell just put a bullet in their > head. With a little effort these animals can live a normal life. With a little effort? What does that mean? If yo

Re: Cat season, WAS: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Stoddart
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Mike Johnston wrote: > Oh, and I really was just kidding (I know I need to be careful here. > Shakespeare said, "Hell hath no fury like a cat lover scorned..." I > think...or words to that effect...). It's Congreve Mike, William Congreve: "Heaven has no anger like love to hat

Re: Cat season, WAS: Injured deer at my home

2003-01-31 Thread Oliver Raymond
You'll get LESS flames by following these suggested posting topics than stepping into a CAT vs DOG war :) 1) sold all your equipment without telling the list, and only posted FS: (but actually auctioned) stuff on rec.photo.technique 2) bought a Leica M6 'becasue someone famous' used it, so i

Re: Guns, politics, abortion... WAS: Injured deer at my home

2003-02-01 Thread Keith Whaley
Nossir, we don't. keith Mike Johnston wrote: > > > I purposefully took some time to think this thru before I answered > > you, so I was actually thinking about my answer instead of just > > knee-jerk responding to some of your comments. > > Keith, > Thanks for the thoughtful reply, but... > >