Thousands sign deer cull petition
La Presse says that a petition on change.org has collected more than 28,000 signatures asking Longueuil not to kill half the deer in Michel-Chartrand park. On change.org I see one petition in English currently with 957 signatures and one in French with 80, but not the thousands mentioned in the article. Maybe my search words – Longueuil, cerfs – are not sufficient?
Chris 10:18 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
I was going to bemoan newspapers for never linking, but there’s actually a link in that one to change.org, but only to the main page, and not the actual petition. ffs!
EmilyG 10:49 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
There seem to be a lot of French words for deer. (Although they seem to refer to different species of deer, and I think the one around here is “cerf.”)
https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/questions-reponses/animaux-biche-cerf-chevreuil-chevrette-daim-differences-7340/
NDG07 10:59 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
I think there is a problem with the search at change.org; I was able to find the petition in the first page of google results searching for Geneviève Soza-Florent parc Michel-Chartrand Longueuil but not with any combination of these terms at change.org.
Em 11:30 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
https://www.change.org/p/minist%C3%A8re-des-for%C3%AAts-de-la-faune-et-des-parcs-du-qu%C3%A9bec-contre-l-abattage-des-cerfs-du-parc-michel-chartrand-de-longueuil?use_react=false
Kate 11:39 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
Thank you, Em.
Kevin 12:52 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
Deer are just tall and tasty rats. Change my mind.
nau 16:50 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
Rats eat garbage and have hairless tails. Squirrels eat garden crops and have fluffy tails. Deer don’t eat garbage but will eat garden crops and have fluffy tails. Deer are in fact tall, tasty squirrels. Q.E.D.
Kevin 21:41 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
I once had to uproot my garden because of rats.