Animal-rights advocates to protest deer ‘harvest’

Taking a page from embarrassment-proof PETA, Bite Club of KC is using blood and guts to make the point that using rifles and crossbows to control the deer population at Greater Shawnee Mission Park is barbaric.

The group’s Web site features images of deer in various stages of conquest and a dog that’s been carved up and served on a plate. Deer hunters are bluntly characterized as “fucking murderers.”

Staff at the Johnson County Parks and Recreation Department came up with a plan to control the park’s deer population with marksmen. Parks officials want to reduce the number of deer per square mile from 200 to 50. Archers will conduct a second “harvest” this fall, if needed.