Deer died painfully when trap collapsed

[Catherine]

The City of Cranbrook BC is culling its deer population. The group they hired puts out a type of trap that contains the deer until someone can come and kill it humanely. This time the trap collapsed and the deer suffocated slowly and painfully.
So much for a humane cull. 

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/cranbrook-deer-die...-1.4732629

The city is permitted to kill 60 mule deer and 10 white tailed deer per year. The cull has been going on since 2011. 
If culls worked the problem should have been solved by now. That is eight years of killing deer.

Maybe they should take a lesson from Oak Bay on Vancouver island. They are having a deer over population problem.  They tried a cull and it didn't work. Instead they are injecting female deer with contraceptives so they won't give birth for a while. This will allow the overall deer numbers to decline. Some of the females will still have babies and they don't have to keep the birth control program going once the numbers are manageable.

Maybe Cranbrook should pay attention and learn something. One deer dying painfully is one too many.