big life; small space

Just before I moved away from Chicago they were having a similar debate about the deer, one of whom had recently sent a child to the ER with a torn scalp when he sat up straight in his sandbox just as the deer passed over it. I definitely favored the 'rangers cull the herd with anesthetic darts and give the dressed meat to homeless shelters/money from sale of meats to soup kitchens' option over the so-called environmentalists' proposal to 'release native cougars into the wildlife preserves.' I just kept wondering exactly what they expected said felines to do if chasing a deer resulted in a bloodied toddler in their path.