It looks like the thread has been hijacked for the discussion of ticks, so allow me to carry it on even further.
Wouldn't it be great if Fish and Game employed the help of hunters (an abundant resource) to sort of "immunize" the deer population while they are out hunting? What if there were paintballs made which contained the same stuff the vet injects into a dog (Permethrin?), and it marked the deer when it got hit so another hunter would see that it had been tagged. It would kill the ticks which were on it, and eventually drastically reduce the level of Lyme disease, especially because most of the deer would get tagged instead of one or two deer per season per hunter. I'd think that those who are averse to killing Bambi would be less averse to "Tagging" Bambi if it was effective.
It might even be kinda fun.
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