DEER TO BE CULLED DESPITE BEST EFFORTS OF INVERMERE DEER PROTECTION ORGANIZATION TO HAVE INJUNCTION EXTENDED TO STOP CULL

IDPT despite their strong effort to convince the judge of the need to extend the injunction were defeated by the argument that the deer present a "public safety issue" despite the fact that not even one person in the area has ever been injured by the gentle animals.  The mayor and council continue to refuse to listen to rational non lethal alternatives that have been presented several times to them during the injunction and now are determined to fill their quota for culled deer.  They seem to fail to realize that the inappropriate cruelty and brutality of the culls have been reaching people throughout Canada and now the world and that thousands of people  have signed petitions and expressed their disgust as this backwards small town council refuses to listen to rationale and compassion.  Barb Julien - an animal activist best expresses the plight of the deer as follows "The deer will be .. attracted inside a trap using fruits .... In the middle of the winter when food is scarce for them, they will go inside the trap - just hoping to eat something so that they can survive the harsh winter. Little will they know that this will be their last meal and that they will not see another sun rise in their life again ... the trap will close in on them suddenly. They will get frightened and desperately try to escape - but the trap is made of steel and they will have no way to get out. There in the dark of the night they must wait - cold, hungry and frightened, they will wait inside the trap for the killers to arrive. With them will be bolt guns - a gun that shoots a 4 inch long steel bolt inside the deer's head. They will come and collapse the trap on top of the deer and wrestle the deer to the ground. One of the killers will try to hold the head of the deer steady. The deer will struggle and cry - but the killers will not care. As soon as one of the killers can hold the deer's head, the other killer will shoot the bolt gun ... The struggling deer will try to move its head away - but the killers will shoot anyway ... Sometimes, the killers will need to shoot the bolt repeatedly to kill the deer ... in the eyes or the neck or wherever they can, and eventually they will succeed. This is how the last night of the deer's life will be."

This unfortunately is the reality of the situation and now this massacre will begin...