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- Deer cull 2.0
- Dog nearly killed by whitetail deer, owner says
- Raccoons moving into East Kootenay
- McRae to take on Ogilvie again in next Kimberley mayoral contest
- Only one solution to deer question
- Kimberley woman attacked by deer in her own yard
- City issues aggressive deer alert
- Kimberley defers hunt, focuses on deer cull
- Council approves Urban Deer Cull Strategy
- Sub-committee to draft urban deer cull strategy
- Taming the apples of our lives
- No action on urban deer until fall
- Tips to help avoid wildlife while driving
- Kimberley agrees to pick up dead deer
- Kimberley committee calls for urban deer hunt, Cranbrook report coming in February
- Door-to-door deer
- Johnston named Publisher
- COs put down four deer in Marysville
- Cranbrook deer survey results in
- Cranbrook Urban Deer Resident Survey closed
- Hundreds fill out resident survey on urban deer
- Deer survey available online tomorrow
- The deers of our lives
- Cranbrook to be polled on deer situation
- Another deer attack reported
- City, MOE to talk deer
- For now just stay out of their way
- Dealing with the deer
- A violent example of the interface
Will the injuries sustained by a woman attacked by a deer in Kimberley this week make any difference in the City of Kimberley's ongoing efforts to do something about urban deer?
Not likely, says Mayor Jim Ogilvie. It certainly should, says Columbia River - Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald.
"I don't know," said Mayor Jim Ogilvie. "I don't think so. It didn't make any difference before. This isn't the first time. There's been more than one attack. This is just the only one where the victim was hospitalized as far as I know.
"There have been other attacks, other cases of deer stalking people. Those people just managed to get out of the way."
Ogilvie has written a letter to Minister Terry Lake (Environment) asking for some kind of support and aid in coming to a solution. (See full text of the letter on Page 7).
"People around Kimberley have been saying that sooner or later something like this would happen," Macdonald said. "We just have to find a solution and get to it.
"The province has to be involved. They are the province's deer like Jim says. If the province has the right to set regulations around deer, then they have the responsibility to manage them.
"It does not work to have habituated deer in a community."
In the meantime, Ogilvie says people must get the message to give deer a wide berth.
"Dogs seem to be a real magnet to deer. And they do tend to attack small dogs more than larger ones," he said. "People need to be aware of where the deer are and try to stay away. They are wild animals and as such, they are unpredictable."
