DB: Feral Hogs Killed a Texas Woman. Experts Say They Are Coming for America.

[nonniey]

45 minutes ago, twa said:

Sometimes they just give ya love bites

 

nsfw probably

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Lucky hog.

[China]

 

[Mr. Sinister]

6 hours ago, DCSaints_fan said:

 

The original comment by Mr. Sinister only said exsanguination, which is blood loss.  That alone does not sound horrific. But "Exsanguination due to feral hog assault" is.  Compared to something like "Disembowelment"which would is always horrific regardless of circumstances (unless you were under anesthesia, I suppose)

 

Anytime I hear "Exsanguination" my immediate thought is a creepy Victorian vampire in a top hat, drinking virgin blood.

[youngestson]

On 12/4/2019 at 9:18 AM, twa said:

Thy taste petty good.

I thought wild hogs in North America had trichinosis. 

[twa]

4 minutes ago, youngestson said:

I thought wild hogs in North America had trichinosis. 

 

Some, but if you cook your meat it is not a problem.

 

 

[China]

On 12/4/2019 at 3:47 PM, Spaceman Spiff said:

Oh come on.  I'm upset that it took this long for someone to post this:

 

[Brick Top - Greedy As A Pig Video]

 

 

In other news...

 

Farmer 'eaten by own pigs' as horrified neighbours discover bones in his yard

 

A pig farmer is feared to have been devoured by his own pigs after he vanished from his farm in Poland leaving just bones.

 

The man in his 70s lived alone on his farm in Osiek, Lower Silesia, and hadn't been seen since late December.

 

He was likely eaten by the animals between December 31 and January 8, the Gazeta Wrocławska newspaper reported.

 

The elderly farmer had long been abusing alcohol, and when police were called they found his pigs out of their pigsty and wandering freely around the farmyard.

 

Magdalena Serafin, prosecutor for the surrounding district, told the Gazeta the man was last seen alive on New Year's Eve.

 

At the time, he was reportedly fetching water from a well, which was where his bones were discovered by a neighbour on January 8.

 

"We do not know the exact date, but in the period between December 31 and January 8the victim was eaten by pigs," Magdalena said.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

 

[Destino]

How do they know these people died by pigs eating them.  If someone where stabbed in the fleshy bits, and the pigs then ate those very same fleshy bits, how would anyone know? 

 

Also, I'm not a murderer.  I just want to make that clear. 

[China]

3 minutes ago, Destino said:

How do they know these people died by pigs eating them.  If someone where stabbed in the fleshy bits, and the pigs then ate those very same fleshy bits, how would anyone know? 

 

Also, I'm not a murderer.  I just want to make that clear. 

 

Well, the article I just posted does say he could have had a stroke or a heart attack, and then his body was eaten by the pigs, not that he was eaten alive.

[ClaytoAli]

Mmmmmm......

[Malapropismic Depository]

3 hours ago, Destino said:

How do they know these people died by pigs eating them.  If someone where stabbed in the fleshy bits, and the pigs then ate those very same fleshy bits, how would anyone know?

 

Forensic Science

[China]

Feral Hogs Are Invading Yankeeland. Northern Friends, Here’s What You Need to Know.

 

Dear Yankee,

 

The South has fallen. Apparently so has Canada. Now an invading army of feral hogs is threatening to come for you. Trust us, we’ve seen the worst down here in Texas. When the hogs arrive up North, you’re in for a porky horror show. Wild pigs are rapacious. Rooting and marauding day and night, they can and will destroy your lawn, your crops, the fairways of your local golf course, and whatever else they run across. Feral hogs were blamed for the recent death of a woman from Liberty. (That’s a town in East Texas, not a state of mind, though we do like to live free in the Lone Star State.) And yes—as the memes foretold—thirty to fifty feral hogs can run into your yard within three to five minutes while your small kids play. It’s never too soon to panic.

 

To help you Northerners prepare for the coming onslaught, we asked a few professionals of the porcine arts to offer their advice, and maybe their condolences.

 

“Lord willing, the pigs don’t get all the way up there into Yankee land, and that we can keep them down here and we can deal with them,” says Wyatt Walton, vice president and hog removal specialist for De Leon-based Lone Star Trapping. His company catches up to 6,500 hogs a year throughout the state, from West Texas ranches and Hill Country subdivisions to the Big Thicket National Preserve. In the past three years, he has trapped 1,200 pigs at the U.S. military’s Joint Base San Antonio. The live hogs are hauled to a USDA-inspected processing facility where they’re butchered and sold to restaurants, primarily on the East Coast.

 

Wild boar can make for a fine meal, but if the pigs are still oinking when they arrive in Yankee land, Walton says landowners should keep in mind that these beasts are incredibly intelligent. Half-measures just won’t do the trick.

 

“If you start throwing little box traps at them because they’re cheap, you might catch four or five and think you’re doing good,” he says. “Well, if there are fifteen pigs out there, you just educated the other ten. There’s only one thing worse than a feral hog, and that’s an educated feral hog.”

 

Walton deploys an elaborate system for catching pigs that involves monitoring game cameras on his cellphone to count the number of hogs in any particular group, called a sounder. He lures them in with a corn feeder and then, over a period of several days, slowly builds a circular pen around the bait, one panel at a time, lulling the pigs into a false sense of security. Then he sends a text message to slam the gate shut, trapping up to 78 hogs at once.

 

“It takes me twice as long to get ’em, but I can get ’em all with one text message,” he says.

 

Walton, who made local and national news when he caught a 411-pound hog in September, says you Northerners shouldn’t get too worked up about the possibility of hog attacks.

 

“As far as Yankees up north probably wetting their britches thinking about these killers coming north, I’ve been around thousands of these pigs, and they want to get away from us just as much as we want to get away from them,” he says. “You’ve got to corner them to get them to want to fight you.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Destino]

[The Sisko]

On 12/4/2019 at 8:29 AM, Bang said:

Anybody want to bet those hogs crossed over from Mexico?

 

~Bang

What’s worse is I hear most of them were rapists.

 

There’s a really great Reply All podcast that does a deep dive on this issue. It turns out that simplistic, good ole boy solutions don’t work and in fact, made the problem worse. Shocking, I know. Especially for the @twa crew that thinks these kinds of solutions are always best.

 

The other wild thing about the podcast is just how many sickos there are in this country.

 

[China]

Now they're going for Canada:

 

Huge feral hogs invading Canada, building ‘pigloos’ as they go

 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some Canadian farmers imported wild boars from Europe to raise for meat. But as wild boars are wont to do, some of them escaped, either digging under fences or barreling through them. Others were set free once the boar meat market cooled.

 

At first, it didn’t seem like a big problem; many thought they couldn’t survive Canada’s long winters. But the boars proved hardier than some researchers expected, and now they’re causing havoc across wide swaths of Canada.

 

The descendants of these wild boars have interbred with domestic pigs to varying degrees, and are now found throughout western and central Canada, from British Columbia to Manitoba and beyond. As they spread, they sow environmental destruction, plowing through crops and grasslands, causing erosion, displacing wildlife, harassing livestock, and eating just about anything.

 

These feral fugitives can weigh up to 600 pounds or more, and sport sharp tusks and bristly coats over thick, warm fur. They are reproducing rapidly and their range is expanding. Their combination of wild traits and domestic ones—including their high tolerance for cold and ability to birth large litters—may have led to “super pigs,” says Ryan Brook, a wildlife researcher with the University of Saskatchewan. The creatures even have been known to build above-ground shelters that researchers have dubbed “pigloos.”

 

“We should be worried, because we know the biology,” Brook says. “They're called an ecological train wreck for a reason.”

 

The hog explosion is a new problem, and until recently, “no one even knew where they were,” says Ruth Aschim, a doctoral candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. She and her advisor Brook spent three years mapping their distribution using trail camera images, GPS collar data, and interviews with local landowners, farmers, and hunters.

 

For three months of the project, Aschim lived out of her tent and her car, meeting with local biologists and conservation officers across western Canada.

 

The results, published in a paper in Scientific Reports in May 2019, reveal wild pigs have spread extensively over the past three decades, with sightings emanating outward from former boar farms. They’re continuing to move into new territory, far beyond where they were once raised.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[TradeTheBeal!]

Oh no, we’ve lost Manitoba.

[Destino]

People are out of work, gun stores are still mostly open, and feral pigs are a problem.  I feel like there’s a solution here.  Hunting is generally a largely solitary activity away from large gatherings right?  Well then, put people to work killing hogs.  
 

 

[China]

At least the ones in this country aren't all coked up like the ones in Italy...

 

Feral Pigs Eat And Destroy $22K Worth Of Cocaine Hidden In Italian Forest

 

Hiding a stash of cocaine worth $22,000 in the woods might not have been the dumbest idea this suspected gang of drug dealers came up with, but it was certainly the least effective. According to Newsweek, a horde of wild boars ruthlessly destroyed it with utter indifference.

 

This violent reclamation by Mother Nature was discovered after police wiretapped members of the gang and overheard them complaining about the damage to their product. Arresting the three Albanian suspects and one Italian suspect thereafter was rather swift.

 

According to The Local, the animals ripped into a sealed package of cocaine and proceeded to litter the nearby woodlands with its powdery contents.

 

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

The Clock Is Ticking on America’s ‘Feral Swine Bomb’

 

Nic Peach Squinted through binoculars at two dots in the distance, tracking what he assumed were a pair of turkeys. But the creatures were not moving like turkeys, which he was hunting on his grandfather’s farm in Little Britain, Ontario. As they moved closer, Peach could see they were pigs, rooting in the ground. Large, hairy pigs. One of them was massive. “My jaw dropped,” he recalls.

 

That was the first day of the turkey hunt in spring 2019, and at the time Peach worked as conservation outreach coordinator for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters in Canada. There, he’d learned about wild swine: an invasive species that causes economic, health, and ecosystem havoc. He knew it was rare to glimpse these creatures, which are excellent at hiding. He also knew that, counterintuitively, he shouldn’t shoot—as gunfire makes other pigs in the group, called a sounder, flee, and hunted pigs wise up around humans.

 

There are as many as 9 million feral swine across the U.S., their populations having expanded from about 17 states to at least 39 over the last three decades. Canada doesn’t have comparable data, but Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan biologist who researches wild pigs, predicts that they’ll occupy 386,000 square miles across the country by the end of 2020, and they’re currently expanding at about 35,000 square miles a year.

 

“I’ve heard it referred to as a feral swine bomb,” says Dale Nolte, manager of the National Feral Swine Damage Management Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “They multiply so rapidly. To go from a thousand to two thousand, it’s not a big deal. But if you’ve got a million, it doesn’t take long to get to 4 [million], then 8 million.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Larry]

(Wonders if he could get a copyright on red and gold "Washington Feral Swine" tee shirts.)

[China]

Dozens of feral hogs invade Southeast Texas neighborhood

 

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KFDM) — Dozens of feral hogs invaded a neighborhood in Fort Bend County and surveillance camera offers the proof.

 

It didn't take long for the huge pack of feral hogs to do some serious damage to the neighborhood.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

[Jabbyrwock]

13 minutes ago, China said:

Dozens of feral hogs invade Southeast Texas neighborhood

 

Showed up a week early for the Dallas game...

 

[Destino]

Any reports of bears wolves and mountain lions behaving happier than normal and carrying extra weight?  With hogs invading the US and Canada, I have to think our larger land predators are pleased by addition of pork to their diet.

[Die Hard]

I just heard a story last week on a popular radio news station of a community near Barrie, Ontario (just outside of Toronto) that had to put down 15 feral hogs recently. Residents of the small town complained and some government employees rounded them up for slaughter.
 

They were trying to make a story about it by giving air time to people who thought there should have been a more humane response.

Others to ask about why our bacon rations haven’t changed.

[China]

Wild boar kills Italian hunter by biting his leg and severing an artery after it had been shot

 

A wild boar turned from the hunted to the hunter after fatally biting an Italian man who had shot at it for sport. 

 

Giulio Burattini, 36, bled to death in front of his father while the pair were out hunting near the Pigelleto di Piancastagnaio nature reserve in Italy's Tuscany region last Wednesday. 

 

Giulio had landed a shot on the wild beast, which collapsed to the ground as the hunter went over the check on his prey, according to local media.

But to the Italian's surprise, the boar shot to its feet and bit the top of his right leg as he approached, severing his femoral artery and killing him.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[abdcskins]

^ The animal lover and hatred of hunting in me says good for the boar. They should have left him alone.

 

Sad though, especially in front of the father. Brutal way to go.