I crawled through some thick brush up in the Guadelupes to find out what was making a rustling noise and came face to face with a foraging javalina. 'Bout shit my drawers.
There was an enormous pig on a rach in south Texas I used to work on. Deer hunters would see it from time to time but no one ever shot it because they didn’t want to piss it off. Rumor had it that the damn thing had killed a couple of illegal aliens trying to cross the place. That’d be a pretty crappy way to go.
My grandfather kept pigs and was always very careful to remove the tusks of the little ones before they got too big. A pair of wire cutters and <snip>. We were never allowed to go near the pig pens because “Them pigs’ll eat you up if they get the chance.”
Well not to nit-pick, but Javelina aren’t rodents. Peccaries are classified in the Order Artiodactyla, along with other pig-like species.
Rodents are classified in the Order Rodentia
http://www.americazoo.com/goto/index/mammals/classification.htm
Regardless of classification, the little buggers are mean!
Was anyone else’s my first thought on reading the thread title related to John Ross’s novel Unintended Consequences?
Time to feed the hogs! ;j
My daddy had a saying if you were late in arriving: “we thought the hogs had et ya’ !!”
Like others have already said, hogs will eat anything.
My great grandfather (a farmer and blacksmith) was viciously attacked by one of his biggest pigs (male) who was known to be very cantankerous when they bought him. In self-defense he pounded the pig on the snout with the only thing he had handy – a big-ass mallet thing (think “troll hammer from Buffy”) that he was still carrying on his tool belt. Pigs are remarkably intelligent animals, and after that, the beast knew better and my little dad and his brother were able to ride the pig like a horse. He actually became quite a docile and friendly pet.
Note: My great grandfather did not believe in hurting animals as discipline – the pig was trying to tear off his leg, so the snout-bash was his only option.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
I think Unca Cece gave cats a bad rap with that article. I don’t think that dogs are more loyal, they’re more willing to eat rotten meat. However, cats don’t like scavenging, and like their meat fresh. So dogs aren’t mourning your passing, they’re just waiting for you to get ripe.
this is why ** i like bacon**
I can’t believe it’s taken you so long to show up!!!
OK, we need a pig-face smiley now.