I thought I’d seen every episode. New one?
They’re scary. There was a doc about them some years ago, how they’re ruining farmers and attacking people. I think this was it.
I once knew a woman who said she knew a family who lived on a farm. Their little girl was sitting on the fence and fell into the pig pen and nobody noticed quickly enough. “I went to the funeral so we could bury what was left of her,” she told me.
Also there’s this:
Yeah this is behind a paywall but you get the idea:
There’s a popular state park in my town that is full of gators. Gators for days. Big ones, little ones, mean ones, sleepy ones. It’s a nice place to take visitors because it’s pretty freaky to see one just hanging out two feet from the trail. They honestly couldn’t care less because they just want to nap during the day.
Every now and then some wild hogs will make it out there. You’ll see these great rutted torn-up patches of dirt on the trail. The gators don’t scare me, but the thought of startling a hog sure does. I won’t go out there if I know there’s pigs currently loose.
No, he got blasted for saying he needed high-powered weaponry in case his kids playing in the yard were attacked by 30-50 feral hogs. The common response was, “if this is a realistic threat, WTF are you doing, letting your kids play in the yard?”
The best thing to come out of this brief controversy was this Twitter thread, in which people rewrote well-known poems to include the feral hogs. Some excerpts:
so much depends
upon30-50 feral
hogsRunning into my
yard3-5 feet from small
children
and
The 30-50 hogs come
on little feral feet.They sit looking
over backyard and kids
on silent haunches
and then move on.
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No, the common refrain was why he would need those weapons to get rid of hogs, and that there couldn’t really be such a problem.
Think about it: do you really know of any place in the US where they don’t let kids play outside? Because what you’re demanding–that the areas of the US where those hogs show up in large groups, no kids are allowed to be outside.
I linked the podcast for a reason.
Feral Hogs, the alternative online dating site.
A feral pig once dated my sister.
The “Homestead Rescue” episodes I was referring to consisted of families trying to eke out “living off the land” and the feral pigs were undoing their efforts and making menacing moves against the people.
Each homestead had a plethora of problems on top of the feral pig menace.
The rescue advice with regards to the pigs was to teach the homesteaders how to shoot. And then there was a mention that along with removing the menace, the pigs they shoot could be part of their homestead food supply.
These homesteaders were located in Texas and Louisiana, both part of @Beckdawrek’s back yard. Now our Bekkers has stated, many times, her local Fish & Game have put out warnings that feral pigs are infected, infested, nasty, and probably are contaminated with alien spores.
I do hope the appropriate F&G people have contacted the homesteaders in their locations and informed them to cancel the pit BBQs.
~VOW
@BigT, we never, I mean NEVER let the kids and pets out alone here. Alone being the operative word.
Feral hogs are a real danger. Bears, coyotes, snakes, fire ants and even a Big Owl that’s nesting close…are all dangers to children and small animals, as well.
I posit if you ever heard the feral hogs fighting amongst themselves you would not go anywhere near them. It’s truly scary.
I never walk un-armed.
And…the idea of using these filthy,nasty, diseased animals as a good source of food would only occur to me in a Zombie apocalypse and all the deer and squirrels were gone. It would have to be dire. And then I’d question it, still.
They are a scourge in S. Arkansas.
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I immediately understood that reference. Or did It? Maybe I just have an overactive imagination. Does it mean what I think it means? Oh look, there’s some lovely filth over here.
Better let Sinned know, Ynnad.
I saw a werewolf Feral Pig with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein
They’re strong, fast, highly intelligent, and will eat anything that moves, anything that doesn’t move, and anything they can stop moving. There’s a reason they developed boar spears.
An administrative assistant once asked me, “You’re a chemist, how do you get rid of a dead body?”. I replied, “Back home, we would just feed her to the pigs.” She responded, “That was way too specific. Why did you say feed her to the pigs?”.
Why is it safe to eat wild deer but not feral pig? Im a city boy so this is all new to me.
People eat them all the time as far as I know. Or maybe it’s just my redneck cousins and hillbilly in-laws.
Where Mr.Wrek hunts in Texas the are no bounties paid.
It’s a huge private ranch.
The Rancher advertises and Hunters come.
There’s free camping spots and water.
The hunters sit in blinds and pick off as many as they can.
I know you have to have a hunting license. I’m not sure if you need permits or tags of some sort.
The feral pigs are not edible.
They carry every disease imaginable.e
Mr. Wrek says they never touch the dead pigs. The Rancher takes care if that.
Heck, maybe he’s getting the bounty.
Now you see the violence inherent in the system!
They have prion diseases. Worms. Some pus-y skin diseases that I think is something real bad. It smells like rotten garbage. Yes, you get down wind and you can smell them.
Pestilence of all kinds crawling on them.
I live in redneck central. No one eats them here.
Wild hog from Grampas day is no more.