The Des Moines Yacht Club seems to be saying that they have tried to do what they can for right now. However, that deer is going to get bigger and could jump the fence, and either get hit in traffic or hurt someone. It is too risky to wait for the deer to leave on its own. People need to get it out. The point of bringing up this story of the deer is to get you, our fellow local community member aware, in hopes that enough concern from you will cause qualified people to get that deer and put it in its natural habitat. That deer should not be at the Des Moines Yacht Club. Please help if you can. Thank you.

Regarding the comment by the Des Moines Yacht Club: "We have our gate open off and on but that is more than likely not how it came in as that is off of the street and traffic of downtown."

...I wonder how the deer got into the yacht club because if it didn't go through the gate on its own, then the deer must have leaped over the chain-linked barbed-wired fence; which seems unlikely because the deer is too young and the fence is too tall. However, the other thought would be that someone may have brought the deer into the yacht club....

With that said, it sounds like the yacht club, the police department and the fish and wildlife folks have similar suggestions on how the deer should be dealt with...Yet, their suggestions sound like the resolution lies heavily on the deer.

If the deer does make it out, where does he go? To exit the yacht club, the deer has to come out into the city area; surrounding is the bank, Red Robin, the drug store and in heading west the deer would make its way to Anthony's Home Port, which is right on the waterfront.

If the decision is left up to the deer, then the deer has to decide whether it will come out; which is a liability to both the deer (because it could get hit by a vehicle) and to people (because it could attack people).

The best reasonable solution would be to safely return the deer to a safe and healthy environment.

Looks like everyone is passing the buck.
If we don't look at the deer or think about it. The deer will just go away. Maybe he will find a nice young female deer and they can start a family and live happily ever after.
I know that deer are in the rut this time of year. However this deer is young and if he was in the rut he would be looking for females. At his size and age he was run off by a larger buck that is in the rut. If you don't do something the deer will have no fear of humans and will have to be destroyed. It is a shame that the protectors of wildlife in the state do nothing but sit back and watch and make excuses. Shame on you Washington State fish and game.

Why isn't the fish and game dept taking care of this? Isn't their job to take care of the wild life? If they don't want to do their jobs, then maybe we should shift our funding to the Des Moines Police Dept, so that they can take care of minimizing another kind of "wild life"?

It's not rocket science, folks. You simply shoot the deer with a tranquilizer gun and take him deep into the forest, where he can relearn his fear of our fearless hunter, who tromp around terrifying helpless animals and then kill them and strap them to the front of their truck grills, as a trophy. Needless to say, I'm not a fan of hunting, but that's another soapbox topic.

City of Des Moines, a simple question to you; who should we sue, if one of us has to sweve to miss the deer and someone gets hurt or killed? You might get on it, before something does happen.