"It looks the same as bunny
poop and you can find a lot of it all through Belmont," said sophomore
Isabella Sziracky when asked her opinion on deer feces.
Carlmont is located in the middle of a deer habitat so at night herds of deer travel through and around the school campus. In 1940 researcher Logan Bennett found that deer go poop exactly 13 times a day. Deer, like humans, tend to poop after eating a meal, but deer do not care where they drop their feces, so while walking they simply let it out.
The droppings of a healthy deer, which we are able to see on Carlmont's campus, are shaped like small round pellets that are pointed at one end. Because deer are herbivores, their feces are actually a very healthy substance to have on the school fields. Jerome Harris, the school Plant Manager, believes that deer poop is not all bad for the school and that it is “in fact somewhat [like] a fertilizer.”
Many students say that deer poop is bad because they always step on it, but the school’s janitorial team does their best to keep it away from students and their shoes. “Whenever we find deer poop [on campus] we try to get it up as fast as we can,” said Harris.
Harris and his team do a very good job of keeping deer poop away from students. “I never see deer poop around,” said the puzzled sophomore Laila Rafi when asked her thoughts.
“It is always a hassle,” said Harris, “[and] it’s not very sanitary, but then again we are in their habitat.” Cena Cook’s straight forward response expresses what many students feel for the hindrance, “It’s poop and it’s gross.”
In July of 2011 Oregon Public Health Division officials found that deer feces are a source of E. coli (O157:H7). This summer the E. Coli strand made 15 people sick and killed one.
Many students have hostile feelings toward poop because it gets on their shoes, or simply because of the ideas that the word poop represents. “Deer poop is annoying,” said freshman Kayla Coyne while showing her shoe. “I always step on it while walking around campus.”
Carlmont is located in the middle of a deer habitat so at night herds of deer travel through and around the school campus. In 1940 researcher Logan Bennett found that deer go poop exactly 13 times a day. Deer, like humans, tend to poop after eating a meal, but deer do not care where they drop their feces, so while walking they simply let it out.
The droppings of a healthy deer, which we are able to see on Carlmont's campus, are shaped like small round pellets that are pointed at one end. Because deer are herbivores, their feces are actually a very healthy substance to have on the school fields. Jerome Harris, the school Plant Manager, believes that deer poop is not all bad for the school and that it is “in fact somewhat [like] a fertilizer.”
Many students say that deer poop is bad because they always step on it, but the school’s janitorial team does their best to keep it away from students and their shoes. “Whenever we find deer poop [on campus] we try to get it up as fast as we can,” said Harris.
Harris and his team do a very good job of keeping deer poop away from students. “I never see deer poop around,” said the puzzled sophomore Laila Rafi when asked her thoughts.
“It is always a hassle,” said Harris, “[and] it’s not very sanitary, but then again we are in their habitat.” Cena Cook’s straight forward response expresses what many students feel for the hindrance, “It’s poop and it’s gross.”
In July of 2011 Oregon Public Health Division officials found that deer feces are a source of E. coli (O157:H7). This summer the E. Coli strand made 15 people sick and killed one.
Many students have hostile feelings toward poop because it gets on their shoes, or simply because of the ideas that the word poop represents. “Deer poop is annoying,” said freshman Kayla Coyne while showing her shoe. “I always step on it while walking around campus.”
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