TinPA3 - I take exception to your comments. Do you have any idea how many thousands of dollars its cost me to raise deer legally, to comply with the states mandatory testing, to keep detailed records of all movement, propagation, and medical history, to build a handling facility, to double tag all deer yearly, to cull animals for CWD monitoring/testing (which, is a post mortem test) etc? Do you realize that my total income is based on deer, as a farmer and taxidermist? I have more riding on these animals than you do. So please, I for one would prefer to see less of those kind of uneducated comments about my industry. Its funny, but do any of you realize that without our captive deer, youd have no test, no records, no way of following a trail to its source? You wouldnt know there was CWD in your state until it was already active in your wild herd, and that would be too late.

I realize that you guys wouldnt know this, but heres a fact. CWD was introduced in some states by state agencies carelessness during wasting disease studies. Ask folks around the test sites near Mt Horeb Wisconsin, and see what they have to say! Wyoming has had CWD for decades, yet they have NO captive deer herds there! Also, I wonder if all the folks out there who wish to condemn guys like me who raise deer are willing to throw out all their deer calenders, posters, books, decals, logos, art work, urine, grunt tubes, hunt magazines and hunt videos? Those are largely photographed in our deer enclosures. Most of the deer you see, especially the big ones, have ear tags that are pixeled out for printing. I know first hand, and I know the names too.

So please, dont be so quick to point fingers. Theres way more to this than you realize. Trust me, most of us are the good guys, we cant afford to have the deer herd sick.