Posted on 03/18/2013 10:50:03 AM PDT by george76
The invasive porkers have made themselves at home across more than three quarters of the U.S. and are responsible for an estimated $1.5 billion in damages each year. Most worrisome is their ability to learn from each encounter with a frustrated human.
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The wild pig population in the U.S. has ballooned to more than 5 million. In one year alone, federal managers trapped and killed more than 32,000 pigs from 28 states and collected thousands of samples to check for the nearly three dozen diseases feral pigs are capable of carrying and passing on to humans, livestock and other wildlife
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Better yet, put a bounty on the pigs. Start it at $50/head.
“It could have enormous costs,” he said.
One good thing about hogs, they like to eat snakes. It may be interesting to see how things shake out in Florida.
I had no idea there were SO many of these things. I just remember that the bounty on wolves out west worked so one on feral pigs might too.
Here in NH we do not have a feral hog problem. However, the eastern coyote is getting to be an issue around here. With the mild winters they have been multiplying to the point they are coming into suburban backyards and killing small dogs and occasionally attacking small children. They have been killing cats for years. They are becoming more and more aggressive.
The eastern coyote is bigger than its western sister. They hunt in packs just like wolves.
My Ex told me about when she was a little girl (family of 11) growing up in NE Arkansas, the pigs would often get out of the sty and into the coal pile. They would eat the coal and eat their young. .....Yes, pigs will eat anything!
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