Posted on 11/22/2023 1:01:00 PM PST by DFG
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.
In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that's spreading out of control.
Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet" and “an ecological train wreck.”
Pigs are not native to North America. While they've roamed parts of the continent for centuries, Canada's problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said. The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.
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That’s what I keep my gun for.
On with the boar eradication. Happy hunting!
Can’t be any worse than what is coming across the southern border.
We coild deport thr pigs to Gaza, that would run the rest of the muzzies out without a shot fired
Filling their tunnels with pigs could be fun. The IDF probably wouldn’t like it much, either.
Hunt all they want. The pigs still come back. We hunt every week and we still have pigs. Coyotes too. They thrive on pigs.
Biden administration will not allow hunting of them ... only putting lipstick on them to make them more presentable for Democratic events.
We already have them in Missouri because the state was paying people to hunt wild boar. They did such a good job that there weren't many left so the hunters released Euro boars into the wild to pump the numbers back up.
They can destroy a good sized pasture overnight. Very hard to kill by shooting. Trapping is the best and make sure you get the head boar inside the trap before springing it, else he'll be out there making a hundred babies.
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