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Bow hunting this year started September 26, 2021. Just how comfortable does the big orange sign warning you about dangerous bow hunting make you feel while you’re trying to relax and experience the healing, therapeutic power of nature. I no longer feel safe visiting our parks – but I won’t let it stop me!
Cincinnati Parks, to counter CUDA’s well-documented objections, are now promoting their false claims using a video presentation. You can see their propaganda with jazzy music in the background here: https://www.facebook.com/CincyParks/videos/633672270673101/ But don’t believe it!
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CUDA FOUND AN AMAZING VIDEO BY A VETERINARIAN ON THE HORRORS OF BOW HUNTING and have now posted it on our Cincinnati Urban Deer Advocates Facebook. It disputes the myths about quick bow hunting kills. The title of the video is: “A Veterinarian Perspective on Bowhunting”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgA1iD0dhvg – Please send to others.
So long as the Ohio Depart. of Natural Resources’s (ODNR) fundng is linked to excise taxes on firearms and ammunition, and bows and arrows, so long as they influence decisions, hunting will never be brought under control or stopped.
In 2020, CUDA met with the new park board president, Jim Goetz. He assured us he would move our proposal to stop hunting in Cincinnati parks to the ODNR via the park board, and requested we get at least one community to officially sign on via their park advisory group or their council. WE DID THAT! – Stanbery Park Advisory Group stepped up. They had been working for four years on the deer issue and wanted the bow hunting gone!! In 2021, after hearing nothing for a long time, and after pushing for a meeting, Goetz said he didn’t have enough support from the park board! We further learned that the park pro-kill employees were waging a political effort against us – and no doubt had influenced the park board. As we have the science on our side, the park people have resorted to dirty politics.
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THIS HURTS PERSONALLY
Three days after hunting began, I watched this small fawn follow his mom. She showed him how to find bird seed on the ground at the bird feeders and then led him to the bird bath to get a drink of water – she drank first and then the fawn did. The fawn is completely dependent on his mom – and is now learning how to find food and water. If that mom is killed by a bow hunter, this fawn’s survival will be in peril.
I repeat that deer are sentient beings. They feel pain. They have a social structure; they’re a matriarchal society. Fawns stay with their moms for one to two years, and sadly many of the fawns see their mothers killed. Hunting is not wanted in the city!
HUNTERS DON’T OBEY THE LAW
Although barely a week into the deer killing season, I was walking in Drake Park picking up beer cans, whiskey bottles, etc. and stepped inside a No Hunting area. Just about 10 feet in, I found an arrow lying there! A bow hunter was seen in the area and he was also seen coming out of a residential/wooded area across from Drake Park (also a No Hunting area).
I filed a complaint with Cincinnati Parks – but expect another “cover up.” In short, hunters are using the No Hunting zones as well. (The hunter, if identified, will simply claim he was cutting through the area to get to a hunting area).
More people need to speak out if only for their own safety. If you would like to contact us, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/ CincinnatiUrbanDeerAdvocates/
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Article by Millie P. Schafer, Ph.D. – Executive Director and Coordinator of Cincinnati Urban Deer Advocates (CUDA) She is a retired research scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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