Truro NS Deer problem

01/22/2026

"Nobody ever imagines getting sick and never recovering. You can't even begin to imagine never-ending torturous abyss until you're living it - "You don't get it until you get it" couldn't be more true. The suffering Lyme victims go through is barbaric and not just the disease itself but the atrocious crimes that surround it. People are afraid to speak the truth because of the rejection they already face in this world living with such a controversial and politicized disease. It's a worldwide pandemic, people need to know the truth. Everyone says don't let your illness dictate your life, chronic Lyme controls every aspect of your life, every waking second and there's no way around it.
Victims are told by the establishment and every doctor they see it's all in their heads. It is, literally. They're living with a permanent brain infection, encephalopathy, hydrocephalus, demyelination or lesions. Your brain becomes hijacked. Your mind becomes it's own entity that you don't even recognize anymore. Progressive cognitive dysfunction and memory loss as if every brain cell is being destroyed one by one. Thoughts disconnected from your speech. Auditory and visual hallucinations as if you've been drugged. It will drag you through the deepest darkest levels of hell you've never imagined existed. Rage out of nowhere like the Incredible Hulk and crippling anxiety. You cry yourself to sleep, you cry alone staring hopelessly at your 4 walls day in and day out. Begging to be saved or begging just to be put out of the misery. Help me please. Make it stop. Sorrow, defeat, hopelessness, powerlessness. Are you dying or fighting to survive?
It's as if your body has an internal circuit breaker malfunctioning each circuit one by one. Pain ripping through and ravaging through every organ system. Crushing every bone, mutilating every joint, suffocating every muscle until strangulation, head pressure as if your brain is imploding, sand paper scraping your brain, razor blades ripping through your intestines and stomach, trying to breathe as if something is squeezing your lungs, blood turned to acid burning you from the inside out like a pressure cooker, railroad spikes into your skeletal system, lesions as if you were burned, pain that throws you to the ground.
Central nervous system as if it were hooked up to a high voltage power line like being tortured to death with a slow steady constant electrocution running through every vein, penetrating the brain to insanity. Electrifying, zapping, burning, tingling, stabbing, vibrating like an internal short circuited exposed live wire backfiring, your core is an electrical circuit while your outer surface feels dead. As you helplessly you feel seizures coming on or restless leg syndrome spreading throughout your entire body, sudden jerks and spasms. Stiffness or spasticity as if you just woke up from a coma. Passing out or falling as if you've become allergic to sitting upright or standing. Balance and coordination circuit has malfunctioned.
Body or limbs disconnected from the brain to paralysis or complete immobility. You're trying to move through cement or turned to stone, can't lift your head, your limbs bearing weights, no energy to blink or breathe, as if every cell and organ system is shutting down. A permanent vacuum installed to your cells slowly sucking every ounce of life. Your hanging on by a threads and every day another thread breaks. Everyday a new weight is added to your bucket. Everything is resistance pulling you the other way. Blood pressure, sugar and heart rate circuit shortage.
Everything makes you sick. Sound, heat, humidity, lights, chemicals, physical and mental exertion, foods. Intense sweating, dehydration, tremors, twitching, vomiting, chills, fever as if you were going into septic shock. Insomnia to hypersomnia are now permanent. You feel drugged, hungover, toxic, poisoned. A 365 day flu, every year. You cant eat, sleep, talk, think, shower, move or walk without climbing Mount Everest. Some recover, while millions remain bedridden or wheelchair bound with nowhere to turn.
But wait....there's no help anywhere? You hit a state of panic. What do you do? Where do you go? How are you supposed to live like this? In a human torture chamber.....
"Lyme disease is absolute torture physically, mentally & emotionally where you scream & scream for help but nobody hears. It is a hell on earth. We live on a different earth, one where no one cares, no one hears, no one helps. It's like being a toddler in an adult body, you can't take care of yourself with a broken brain & broken body but there are only doors slammed in your face at every turn. It's like being undead. You're too sick to ever participate in life. All things that make life worth living have been stolen from you, leaving you a ghost of your former self, forever doomed to haunt the world, but you can never participate in it. And if you dare try, you are given a payback of such severe pain and a flare up of symptoms that make it never, ever worth trying. Everything you used to enjoy makes you severely physically ill. Everyday is a never ending struggle just to survive the most basic of needs. And sometimes, you can't even do that. You are stuck in a world you are not well enough to live in. And no one will help you. There is no help coming. There is no future. There is only now, and never ending pain, and disappointment, and a loneliness only the undead can feel."
Photo bottom part of photo from:https://lymedisease.org.au/lyme-disease/lyme-co-infections/
Quote of: Trishy Munoz

12/19/2025

As part of the Town of Truro’s Deer Management Strategy, the Town has completed its 2025 Controlled Managed Urban Deer Hunt, marking the most productive year since the program began.

The 2025 hunt ran from the end of September through mid-December and resulted in a total of 88 deer harvested within the Town of Truro, representing the highest annual harvest achieved through the program to date.

The Controlled Managed Urban Deer Hunt is carried out annually with the guidance, oversight, and permitting of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Hunting is completed on approved sites by proficient hunters who are granted special permits by the Province. As outlined in the Town’s Deer Management Strategy, a controlled managed hunt remains the most effective population reduction method in terms of effectiveness, feasibility, public cost, capacity, and time to implement.

In 2025, the Town was granted provincial permission for a new, more urban hunt site. While this site operated under very strict conditions, the additional site proved highly successful, with 35 deer harvested from this single location.

Of the 88 deer harvested in total,
73 deer were harvested through the Town of Truro’s authorized hunters, and
15 deer were harvested by Millbrook First Nation’s hunters.

Of the deer harvested through Millbrook First Nation, four deer were harvested by youth, and two deer were harvested by Elders as part of Millbrook’s land-based learning program, highlighting the continued importance of cultural knowledge transfer and community-based harvesting practices.

The Town’s Controlled Managed Hunt continues to operate as a strong partnership program with Millbrook First Nation, a collaboration that has expanded and strengthened each year. As in previous years, the program emphasizes respectful use of the animal and minimal waste. Meat harvested through the Town’s portion of the program is donated through Feed Nova Scotia’s Hunters Helping the Hungry program, while meat harvested by Millbrook supports community members through local distribution initiatives. Hides and other animal parts are also utilized for educational and research purposes in partnership with DNR and Dalhousie University’s Agricultural Campus.

The purpose of the Town’s Deer Management Strategy is to reduce deer population numbers within Truro for the benefit of natural ecosystems, protection of residential landscapes, reduction of deer-vehicle collisions, public health considerations, and the overall reduction of human–deer conflict. While residents will continue to live alongside deer long-term, population management remains a critical tool in maintaining balance within Truro. The Town continues to remind residents that feeding deer is the single most impactful action that undermines deer management efforts.

The Town of Truro wishes to thank all partners involved in the 2025 Controlled Managed Urban Deer Hunt, including the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Millbrook First Nation, Feed Nova Scotia, Dalhousie University, the Town’s Hunt Coordinators and other authorized hunters, and community partners who contributed to the success of the program.

For more information on the Town of Truro’s Deer Management Strategy, please visit: www.truro.ca/urban-deer-management.html

10/03/2025

The Town of Truro's annual Controlled Urban Deer Hunt program is now underway and will run until mid-December. The hunt program is part of the Town's larger Deer Management Strategy to reduce deer population numbers in Truro.

The Town's Controlled Urban Hunt is now in its fifth year. Since its inception, over 100 deer have been harvested through the program. The program is designed to balance ecological needs and community safety and is executed under the strict guidance and permitting of the NS Department of Natural Resources.

The program includes partnerships with Millbrook First Nation, Dalhousie University, Feed Nova Scotia, and the NS Department of Natural Resources. Each year, deer harvested through the Town's program are donated to Feed Nova Scotia to be distributed to food banks throughout Nova Scotia. Additional deer harvested through Millbrook First Nation is donated to the Millbrook community members.

The program operates on as little waste as possible. As part of the program, all hides are also donated to Millbrook First Nation. Other parts of the animal are also used for Provincial and National research purposes, both through the NS Department of Natural Resources and Dalhousie University.

The purpose of the Town’s Deer Management Strategy is to reduce the deer population numbers within the Town of Truro for the benefit of natural ecosystems, citizen landscapes, reducing Deer Vehicle Collisions (DVC’s), public health concerns, the possible presence of deer predators, and an overall reduction of deer human conflict. While residents need to learn to live with deer long-term, there are several measures that people can take to assist with deer management efforts in Truro and help to bring the urban deer population within a manageable number. The most important management tool for residents is to stop the feeding of deer within and around the Town.

The Town of Truro wishes to thank all partners involved in the program. More information can be found at https://truro.ca/urban-deer-management.html

05/22/2025

Lyme disease you do not want it. This is why it causes so much pain.

Deer can host these ticks!

03/10/2025

This is why I believe deer like it in town! Safer

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02/24/2025

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗿𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁

Join us on Wednesday, February 26th for an insightful discussion on four years of Truro’s Deer Management Hunt. Learn about the town’s strategy, potential health risks, food donations to Feed Nova Scotia, and what Truro’s deer have been eating.

𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 | 𝟲:𝟯𝟬 - 𝟳:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠
𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝟭𝟯𝟱 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱

Featuring speakers from the Town of Truro, Dalhousie University, and Feed Nova Scotia.

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹: 𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵.𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸@𝗱𝗮𝗹.𝗰𝗮

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and ask questions!

02/24/2025

10/04/2024

Truro Set to Begin Annual Controlled Hunt as Part of Deer Management Strategy
Truro’s Controlled Hunt will begin mid-October and run through December as part of the Town's Deer Management Strategy. Now in its fourth year, the program promotes ethical practices, community learning, and responsible deer population management, with 113 deer humanely harvested in previous years.
Partnering with the Province of Nova Scotia, Millbrook First Nation, Feed Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie University, the Town's goal is to reduce deer-related conflicts, including Deer Vehicle Collisions (DVCs) and damage to landscapes, while supporting local ecosystems.
🔹All harvested deer meat is donated to Feed Nova Scotia to help support food banks.
🔹Hides are donated to Millbrook First Nation, which will also host land-based learning programs focused on ethical harvesting and processing of deer.
🔹Dalhousie University and NS Department of Natural Resources use other animal parts for research, minimizing waste.
Residents are reminded that a key step to supporting deer management is to stop feeding deer. This is vital to bring the urban deer population within a manageable number.
For more information on the Town's Deer Management Strategy, visit:

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12/13/2023

TOWN OF TRURO COMPLETES THIRD MANAGED URBAN DEER HUNT

As part of the Town of Truro’s Deer Management Strategy, the Town completed the third Controlled Managed Hunt in late November. The hunt ran for just over six weeks, and in total 58 deer were harvested.

The Controlled Managed Hunt is carried out annually with the guidance, oversight and permitting from the NS Dept of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR). Hunting is completed on approved sites by proficient hunters who are granted special permits from DNRR. As outlined in the Town’s Deer Management Strategy, a Controlled Managed Hunt is considered the most favourable population reduction method, in terms of effectiveness, feasibility, public cost, capacity and time to implement.

For the full media release please click on the following link:
https://www.truro.ca/town-of-truro-completes-third-managed-urban-deer-hunt.html

10/19/2023

Don't feed the Deer!

By feeding wild animals, you may be conditioning them to expect food from people. Deer that lose their natural tendency to avoid people can become a significant threat.

Residents are encouraged to visit Urban Deer Management to read the Town's Deer Management Strategy and learn more about the efforts by clicking on the following link: https://hub-connect-townoftruro.hub.arcgis.com/apps/e3fee988e7e14531b0036afb804bdc6e/explore?fbclid=IwAR1UwoQO3yIANIGEYsn0HKGLpKzGekfxUhFSkFj1KW9M1ah1QfINzoSux9s

10/14/2023

Feeding deer: You're doing more harm than good

Supplemental Feeding Can Harm Deer
Feed sites congregate deer into unnaturally high densities. These high deer densities can:

-attract predators.
-spread disease among deer.
-cause aggression, wasting vital energy reserves
-reduce fat reserves as deer use energy traveling to and from the feed site.
-result in over-browsing of local vegetation and ornamental plants.
-increase deer-vehicle collisions.

Other Problems Associated with Feed Sites:

Tamer Deer Feed sites cause deer to depend less on their natural environment and more on humans. Deer may lose their fear of humans and become habituated to feeding sites.

Residents are encouraged to visit Urban Deer Management to read the Town's Deer Management Strategy and learn more about the efforts by clicking on the following link: https://hub-connect-townoftruro.hub.arcgis.com/apps/e3fee988e7e14531b0036afb804bdc6e/explore

09/29/2023

The Town of Truro is set to begin the annual Controlled Managed Hunt as work continues on the Town's Deer Management Strategy. The hunt program is expected to begin in early-mid October and run through until December.

This will be the third hunt program undertaken by the Town. The first hunt program took place in January/February 2022, where a total of 14 deer were harvested. The second hunt program took place in November/December 2022, where a total of 41 deer were harvested.

Similar to previous years, the Town of Truro is partnering with Feed Nova Scotia to have all meat harvested through this program donated to food banks throughout Nova Scotia.

The Town's program operates on as little waste as possible. As part of the program, all hides are donated to Millbrook First Nation. Other parts of the animal are used for Provincial and National research purposes through Dalhousie University and the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables.

This year, Millbrook First Nation will once again be managing one of the hunt sites and conducting land-based learning at this site for community youth and other members to help preserve knowledge related to the ethical harvesting and processing of deer.