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I’d like to address the people who are fond of putting out food for the in-town deer population. Please don’t be surprised when you emerge some chilly morning and find one dead in your yard with a bloody trail leading into the street. Please note the slightly accusatory look in the lifeless eyes that are still blissed out from all the free chow. I have nearly run over several of these “pets” as they huddle around your equivalent to a soup kitchen. I recognize that humans have encroached on deer habitat, but I don’t think that feeding them is an appropriate way to make it up to them.

This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.

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No Deer Handouts

by Source Weekly, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 21, 2009

<h1>No Deer Handouts</h1> <p class="byline">by Source Weekly, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 21, 2009</p> <p>I&apos;d like to address the people who are fond of putting out food for the in-town deer population. Please don&apos;t be surprised when you emerge some chilly morning and find one dead in your yard with a bloody trail leading into the street. Please note the slightly accusatory look in the lifeless eyes that are still blissed out from all the free chow. I have nearly run over several of these "pets" as they huddle around your equivalent to a soup kitchen. I recognize that humans have encroached on deer habitat, but I don&apos;t think that feeding them is an appropriate way to make it up to them.</p> <p align="right"><em><br /></em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/no-deer-handouts-2134445/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=12398&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/no-deer-handouts-2134445/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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