Colorado Springs City Councilman Tim Leigh may have put a big target on his back over what he says is the best way for cities to deal with an overpopulation of deer.
“The obvious answer is kill them,” Leigh said Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Ed Billings notified People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
“Colorado Springs City Councilman Tim Leigh is proposing to kill a supposed over population of deer in the Colorado Springs Area,” Billings wrote in an email to PETA.
Billings, who provided the animal rights organization Leigh’s contact information in an effort to put pressure on Leigh to reconsider the idea, also created a YouTube video mocking Leigh and featuring Councilwoman Lisa Czelatdko. To watch that video, click here.
CSAction.org also created a YouTube video encouraging viewers to contact Leigh as well as the other council members and Mayor Steve Bach. To watch that video, click here.
Here’s what CSAction.org wrote:
“One of our new developer-puppet city councilpersons, Tim Leigh (Hoff & Leigh) was interviewed this week by (Daniel) Chacon of the local daily and he reports he said the following:
“Erindale is apparently being overrun with deer”
“the obvious answer is KILL THEM.”
“KILL THE DEER”!
Well, we say that the people of our town need to tell this vicious, violent councilperson to keep his hands and guns OFF OUR DEER.
Write him:
TLeigh@springsgov.com
Phone: 719-385-5483
FAX: 719-385-5495
Write the rest of city council and tell them HANDS OFF OUR DEER!
adougan@springsgov.com
bherpin@springsgov.com
jmartin@springsgov.com
lczeladtko@springsgov.com
mccord_allen@yahoo.com
shente@springsgov.com
vsnider@springsgov.com
bwilliams@springsgov.com
mbennett@springsgov.com
And write the mayor and tell him HANDS OFF OUR DEER!
sbach@springsgov.com
Kill the deer, before they run onto the interstate and kill a person. Us or them, folks.
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
Dan, he was kidding when he said it, right?
Must be a slow news day if Daniel is getting his story from Ed Billings.
Perhaps we should round the deer up (in a humane manner, of course) and drop them off at Ed Billings’ house… I’m sure he wouldn’t mind putting his money where his mouth is… a couple tons of hay will feed them for weeks… problem solved.
They are not Ed Billings’ deer or ‘our’ deer: they belong to the DOW. As such, CDOW property manages game populations, in the case of game population within city limits, controlled hunts using handguns and bows are well regulated and proper, and coordinated among game wardens, police and sheriffs. Tim Leigh would be advised to soften his rhetoric with the use of CDOW’s term ‘harvest’ instead of kill.
And no, publius, deer can’t digest hay without weeks of transition off browse. They starve with full bellies.
Better hope Billings has plenty of leafy shrubs!
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