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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
SPCA wants deer cull off the table Animal activists urge Oak Bay to reconsider deadly decision Christopher Sun News staff
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Festive fiddler Max Hollmann, 3, on plays along while Daniel Lapp performs on stage at the Oak Bay Light up Sunday evening.
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old weather left an opportunity for crime last week. A resident of Foul Bay Road left his minivan unlocked and running to warm it up at 7:30 in the morning on Nov. 24 and when he next looked out of his house, the van was gone. As the owner was reporting his
van stolen, Saanich police received a report of a single vehicle crash on Cedar Hill Cross Road. Sure enough, said police, the stolen van from Oak Bay was involved in the Saanich crash. Witnesses provided a good description of the man who had
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been driving the van and had fled the scene. Around 8 a.m. a member of the Oak Bay police located a man matching the description on Shelbourne Street. The 21-year-old was arrested for the theft of the vehicle. He was later released with a court date next month.
The BCSPCA and others are demanding Oak Bay council reverse its decision to allow a deer cull in the district, saying the lethal approach will not end the problem. Two weeks ago, Oak Bay council voted five to one to sign onto the Capital Regional District’s deer management pilot project, which recommends the culling of up to 25 deer, with the meat, antlers and hooves going to the Songhees First Nations. Coun. Cairine Green was the lone dissenter and Coun. Tara Ney was absent for the vote. BCSPCA manager of wildlife services Sara Dubois said Oak Bay’s approval for a cull is “misguided” and a “knee-jerk reaction.” “We’ve heard from a lot of our supporters who are really upset Cairine Green with this deer cull,” Dubois said. “Take the cull off the table and have a conversation with deer management experts.” BCSPCA CEO Craig Daniell wrote a letter to council in late June, expressing his organization’s opposition to a deer cull in Oak Bay. The letter asked for community consultation on the issue and enforcement of local bylaws as locals are feeding deer, encouraging the animals to stick around and multiply. Dubois said deer control is under provincial jurisdiction and the province should be dealing with the issue directly. She cited a cull in the interior, where of the 25 deer killed, 11 were the wrong species. “Responding to wildlife is not something municipalities have experience in or have the support and resources to do,” Dubois said. “It’s an indiscriminate cull. … They have no sense of the deer population.” The Association for the Protection of Fur Bearing Animals is also against the cull and has launched a letter writing campaign on its website, directing the public to voice their opposition to Oak Bay council. Please see: Public safety put before lives, Page A2
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