I became interested in deer, when an acquaintance had mentioned to me that she didn't like Sarah Palin. I asked her why did she have such a view of the Republican Vice Presidential Elect? Her answer completely took me off guard, because she replied that Sarah Palin shoots animals. You no doubt remember that Saturday Night Live and other media constantly joked about Sarah Palin being a hunter and shooting moose. I asked my acquaintance if she is a vegetarian? She replied that she is not a Vegetarian. I then reminded her that the chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs that she eats were once living animals.
The person that I mentioned as my acquaintance is not a young child but a 35 year old woman. It is just amazing to me that most Americans eat meat everyday and never relate that these were live animals at one time. If we had to hunt for our food as was the life style even less than 100 years ago when people lived on farms and raised chickens, pigs and cows.
I came along at the end of the era was changing where people flocked to the cities and purchased food from the neighborhood butcher. When I was a child and we visited family who lived in the southern USA, I remember that I could not stand the smell of fresh eggs or a freshly killed chicken. That is why I wonder how many of us would be meat eaters if we had to experience the actual killing and butchering of an animal for food.
Now how is all of this related to my interest in deer? Well, after Sarah Palin had come on the National scene, I began to do research about the life style in Alaska. Sarah Palin had said that she didn't hunt moose, but she had hunted caribou.
There are different types of deer, they belong to the Cervidae Family. In the USA these are the different types of deers (White-tailed deer, Mule deer, Caribou, Elk, and Moose). I live in Maryland and the White-Tailed Deer is dominant here. Although we are living in the period of time that we don't have to hunt for a living. There are recreational hunters here in Maryland that hunt deer during the government regulated deer season. I discovered that fact on a local radio show.
Ellis Outdoors
