Hog Wild Explosion Cancelled (sp)

Bandera Bulletin ^ | 03-06-2019 | Bill Pack

[Texan5]

My work compadre knows a couple of those guys-and you are right-it will not be good PR for them-he said he heard a rumor that a couple of them were p****whipped into opposition by whiny women, and that sounds logical-since guys at work gossip, I’m sure the truth of it will be known by Monday or so-shunning isn’t just for the Amish...

[Mears]

Thanks——that’s how my Mom grew up,in very rural Nova Scotia——I get it.:-)

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[Texan5]

You’re welcome-it is just a different world out here in redneck country...

[IronJack]

More moral cowards.

[Chode]

so this isn't a hog filled wi tannreite? damn...

[SanchoP]

Bandera has sure gone downhill. Why don’t they put the “animal activist” in a sack and drag them across the line? Next you’re gonna tell me that beef jerky store has closed. (That would break my heart.)

[susannah59]

We’ve been way “Disney-fied.” A lot of people think the world is a Disney movie, an amusement park, or a petting zoo.

I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals. (”The mother coyote is worried that she won’t be able to feed her babies.” Really? Coyotes worry? How do you know?) A lot of people seem to believe that animals really are people, too.

I find hogs to be scary, myself. I have a relative who was bitten on the face by a hog when he was a child. He was literally scarred for life, emotionally as well as physically. My ex’s late mother had an aunt who had one arm amputated below the elbow following a hog attack. And those were domestic hogs, not feral ones.

[Flaming Conservative]

Youngsters? Wild hogs? That combination can’t exist. REAL wild hogs are dangerous, foul beasts. And a “group of youngsters” is going to get one into a sack? Oh, I don’t think so. Something doesn’t add up in this reportage.

[9422WMR]

“So how do they feel about shooting them from helicopters with assault rifles?”
Pretty darn good if you’re with these guys!!
http://www.helihunter.com

[trebb]

First it was midget tossing and now it’s wild hogs....where will it stop?

[mad_as_he$$]

+. My first question.

[Chode]

GMTA!

[Texas Fossil]

We have trapped them for years and have many traps that we occassionally set.

Hogs are smart. You have to bait them a while until they don’t think it is a trap.

[RedMonqey]

"I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals.”

I know what you mean. It used to be cute that these type program "anthropomorphizing" animals to make urban audiences better relate to animals in the wild but now it has reached to levels that animals ARE people.

Nope, they aren't

Mostly because animals have no rights(not like humans) and they do not recognize the rights of others.

Mammals do however, have "emotions" inbred in the mammalian part of their brains to care and feed their offspring. Whether this is "worrying" can be debatable.

When my father was a young boy, he was playing with a piglet which started to squeak. The mother sow heard it and charged my father and was on top of him and torn at his ear. His father came running and knocked the big sow off him.(No mean feat if you ever saw a adult hog.) My grandfather warmed Dad if he hadn't been there to get the sow off him, it would have killed him. My dad believed him and stayed away from playing with the piggies!

Our dad told us this tale at dinner one night after we told him what we were doing all afternoon. We were playing "rodeo' with a bunch of piglets.(Catching them and tying them up)

We found something else to do the next day.

[susannah59]

I’d say your grandfather had a huge adrenalin rush from fear when he saw the sow attack your dad! Your dad was fortunate he was within earshot.

A lot of people don’t know that it’s not uncommon for sows to eat their own litters. Apparently they aren’t all born with maternal instincts.

Not long ago I was watching a nature program when they showed something that shocked me. A fox kit died and they showed the mother fox eating the body. I wasn’t shocked that it happened but that it was shown. That kind of reality isn’t common.

[RedMonqey]

Yeah, some sows do eat their offspring. These tend to make it to the breakfast table a lot earlier than brood sows who succeed in delivering healthy litters. However even good mothers have stillborns and large litters can have an occasion stillborn or an weakling in a large litter that gets pushed away from an teat or just one that gets squished as the sow stands in the nest and resettles. That’s why it’s important to keep an carefully eye on the nursing sow for the first few days. Removal of the dead piglet is important so the good mother doesn’t develop “a taste” for “pork”

In nature, I imagine all animals have this instinct, mostly to keep the nest the clean of dead offspring(stillborn) or to remove an offspring that would be too weak to survive and the nutrients would be better given to an healthy littermate to thrive. And dead creatures could alert a pred
Mother

Nature can be cruel but she has to ensure her children live to ensure the next generation... and then the next. And she has many children to feed. And they all get hungry.

The Disney version or “anthropomorphizing” nature shows do a disservice to young viewers, especially urban and suburbans youths who will never see the wonders, and the horrors of Nature in the raw. Add in the ruse of the “villain” in these shows is usually Man. Usually in the pursuit of hunting, development of wild territory(pollution or expansion of suburbia) or of late, “Global Warming”

Kudos to the show that allowed the fox eating it’s young. It’s all part of “nature’