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Wild boars with razor-sharp tusks invade upstate New York
New York Times via MSNBC ^ | 3-12-12 | LISA W. FODERARO

Posted on 03/12/2012 4:51:11 PM PDT by dynachrome

PERU, N.Y. — They roam by night, picking cornstalks clean, making off with apple crops. They have almost no natural predators, but they have razor-sharp tusks and a seemingly bottomless appetite for plants and animals. Their population can triple in one year.

They are feral pigs, and while they have long plagued parts of the Southern and Western United States, now they have become a problem in the peaceful Champlain Valley of New York, an agricultural heartland on the edge of the Adirondacks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boars; chupacabra; newyork; wildboar; wildboars
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To: dynachrome

Feral pigs are also endemic in blue states and universities.


21 posted on 03/12/2012 5:18:44 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: dynachrome

The coydogs run in large packs. They take down full size deer here right 50 yards from my front porch. One winter night they ran `round and ``round the house. I counted 18 going by in the moonlight. There are also large wolves here, bigger than a German Shepherd, but these mostly are loners.
None of the hunters here I know has ever even seen a porker anywhere. Just could be they are eating apples. The local apple orchards here 3 miles and 12 miles away don`t have any porkers around coz there are cougars in the area all the time at night going after deer that feed in the cornfields. My house is 60 miles from Peru.


22 posted on 03/12/2012 5:21:18 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (No Pork ?//??? ? ?? ``?? Who knew?)
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To: bunkerhill7
The pigs are smart. Period.

We have some cougars around here...and plenty of deer too.

I see more deer than anything....but the pigs ARE here.

23 posted on 03/12/2012 5:30:30 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: bunkerhill7

Yeah right!

no coydog that ever lived could take a wild boar.


24 posted on 03/12/2012 5:32:21 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: tiki

Yeah, good luck with that.

lol. They are a plague. Don’t ask me how I know. Y’all have my sympathies. No, really, you do.

They are fun to shoot, though.


25 posted on 03/12/2012 5:33:59 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain. FUBO)
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To: dynachrome

Great area for apple picking...this should make it a little more interesting this fall...


26 posted on 03/12/2012 5:34:20 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: dynachrome

“Wild boars with razor-sharp tusks”

“They have to drink, don’t they? We will release bull sharks with frikkin’ lasers on their heads into the New York state lakes, rivers and streams. This is why I get paid the big bucks.”
The Great Toothless Zero Speaks—Let It Be Writ, Let It Be Done


27 posted on 03/12/2012 5:36:22 PM PDT by tumblindice ( our new, happy lives)
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To: dynachrome

Good pig.

28 posted on 03/12/2012 5:38:27 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Mesquite woodfire takes care of disease (as does any heat used for cooking) (Greenhorns, sigh)

You know nothing of wild pig. I have been eating on them a long time, dude. Please stop with the misinformation, you make yourself look foolish.


29 posted on 03/12/2012 5:40:38 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain. FUBO)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

We have hog shoots and smokin’ events in Texas. Yum! Who is going to do that in NY? Wild boars are bad enough, but fortunately, they don’t have rattlers in NY. :)


30 posted on 03/12/2012 5:41:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: driftdiver

Our contractor, in Arizona, said that dogs get ripped up by Javelina. I suspect that panthers can hang on their backs while they go after the neck.

We just bought a house on “Javelina Road”. During the escrow period while we could still back out we were standing in the back yard with the Realtor when two javelina came around the side of the house and wandered into the forest behind the house. I told the Realtor that if this house had been on “Grizzly Road” the deal was OFF!


31 posted on 03/12/2012 5:44:12 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: tumblindice

lol


32 posted on 03/12/2012 5:44:28 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain. FUBO)
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To: SaraJohnson

lol


33 posted on 03/12/2012 5:47:18 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain. FUBO)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

Holy carp! Fire up the godzilla sized barbecue!


34 posted on 03/12/2012 5:47:42 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Iowa Granny

Marking for research project


35 posted on 03/12/2012 5:47:58 PM PDT by Iowa Granny (Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
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To: dynachrome

They don’t have a problem here in Md. We love Bacon.


36 posted on 03/12/2012 5:49:40 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: dynachrome

In WNY we call them politicians


37 posted on 03/12/2012 5:53:18 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: dynachrome

I thought Jerry Nadler lost weight...


38 posted on 03/12/2012 5:53:35 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: dynachrome

Exceptionally lean, and fat free too!

A baby just off of the tittie is tender and succulent; and tasty as well! lol! They die easy with a .22 to the head( or a .223, see my page )!

Crockpot tittie pork rocks! With onions, garlic and your choice of sauce!

mm-hmm!


39 posted on 03/12/2012 5:54:28 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain. FUBO)
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To: waterhill

Sounds good to me! I’m thinking use the .223 just in case momma is around and objects.


40 posted on 03/12/2012 5:56:58 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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