The news reports that central New York State has gotten more than 9 feet of snow over the past week. I was wondering... what happens to animals in situations like this? Will all the deer in the area die?

It seems like animals that live in trees or dig boroughs would just need to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. But what about deer, with their contiuous need to graze? They have those pointed little hooves that can't possibily support them on top of 10 foot snow drifts. Do they survive?

Animals will survive...especially deer.
Don't worry yourself.
Deer don't graze...maybe half....the other half is leaves on trees...scrubs and bushes.....they'll be fine.

There should still be plenty of places that aren't covered by snow.It all depends on how dense the forest areas are and how much tree cover there is.The open areas are the worst hit,since there's nothing there to help block the snow from piling up.Under the forest canopy however,it is a much different story.There will be large drifts in the forest...but still probably a decent amount of smaller drifts that the deer can easily get through.

The deer will be totally fine, they eat a lot of twigs and things in the winter, especially willows, dogwood etc.. (at least that's what I saw them eating while I was growing up in Montana)

Hey even if the snows kill off 1000000 deer we will still have too many of them running around.

Awww...I'm glad there are good hearted people to zero out the bad people like me which shoot deer.

Hey, I don't have any problem with people hunting deer-- as long as they eat the meat or donate it to charity. I own 150 acres of woods and I allow some hunters on my land. If I don't, starving fawns come wandering out onto the highway and get hit by cars. Just because a person loves animals doesn't mean she's got her head in the ozone.

I just feel saddened by suffering. Guess I must be a real jerk.

well, i live here in central NY, where all the snow has hit, and let me tell you guys, we have way too many deer, and this kind of snow around here happens all the time.

I lived in Syracuse for 18 years and it never happened there. Five feet, yes. 115 inches? No

syracuse doesn't have 115 inches, oswego does. besides, oswego and pulaski always get nailed with snow because the lake effect bands come right off the lake at them, last year they had bad snow storms too, and a few years before that.

I'm not trying to start and argument, but theey always get lots of snow, and every year there are still too many deer

don't worry. the deer always find a way to survive

you would be surprised at what some animals can do to survive,this does not surprise me in the least

The deer would migrate away I guess not a huge amount of distance but they would move away from deeper snow areas

they have built in survival skills to survie...theyll be okay most animals know before hand bout storms and weather ...if watch them they can tell you when it is close...its amazing how they are..im sure they will have no problem..probably alot less the mankind in the snow..