Curious why "does only" for the neighbor's son? A doe will only have one or two or maybe once in awhile triplets; a buck can service many does....here with all the damage they do to the hayfields and finding them in the lots with the cows actually eating with them some times, to me all of them are fair game. I like wildlife, but I usually hit - rather have one run into me - at least one a year due to the increasing numbers and there are alot of hunters in this western part of VA. Got one the other morning on the way to work, put a couple of dents in the fender, busted the plastic grill....killed the doe. I get a little tired of all the ones that have moved here and don't allow hunting and then they are b****g about the damage the deer are doing to their fancy landscaped yards, just like @Latestarter said. "oh they are so beautiful...blah blah.." until hunting season, and mating comes around, and they hit one. Or when we have dry conditions and they are in the yard eating some 100 dollar bush...And now with re-introducing some of the natural predators....next we will have problems like they have had in places where the cougars are attacking joggers....I don't want to go out and just mow every wild animal down.... but hunters aren't all the bad guys either. Running deer with dogs is not allowed west of the blue ridge mtns., but I have no problems with someone doing it. Do you realize that the kids learn about life, they are spending time with their family/mentors, they are learning responsibility, getting exercise, and they spend alot of money on both the care of the animals, and the liscense fees that help to keep up the parks and forests and all that??? Sure some sit and eat KFC in their truck waiting for the dogs to sound pursuit, but they have a real investment in the equipment they they use to moniter the dogs. And those dogs don't run loose all year and harrass the livestock or the wildlife like so many of the "oh my doggie would never chase or kill your cow/goat/sheep/chickens" pet owners.
