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When I was a airbase patrol man we had a terrible Mule deer problem; over breeding; over grazing; and several nearly road-kill'd cripples limping around from the nearby freeway ...just awful. they were a constant hazard to auto traffic. A lot of deer we recognized and actually had names! Then a cougar came into the base. Had we called Fish and Game they would have darted the animal and that's been fatal in the past, so, taking a page from Master and Commander: "the lesser of two weevils", we kept mum; alerted the the Coast Guard families living in the base housing to 'keep the kids close" and after a month or so... a very reduced deer problem and the Puma moved on having done the job it was designed for.