Feral Hogs Are A Problem

[Lawrence00]

They can multiply faster than rabbits, soil clean water, and damage habitats of native species. No significant natural predators.

Starting soon in Missouri they will be shooting them from helicopters in rural Ozarks ... so check your calendars for hiking days.

Seems they have been fighting this species for several years. 5000+ shot or trapped last year. Texas, Florida, and other states have the same problem.

 

[Rakaia]

I suddenly got a flashback to a foreign sensationalist news report about Australia's plan to shoot feral camels from helicopters.
Where's that journo now?

 

[Imogene]

@Lawrence00

Yes, they are a huge problem. In the beginning, that’s what Catahoula dogs were bred for to hunt feral hogs, but somehow someway they ended up being used for other purposes. One not so nice purpose was the illicit unethical, pitbull breeders, crossing their Pitbulls to the Catahoulas for fighting dogs.

My Catahoula pitbull cross has been with me 13 years since he was a yearling and he is the sweetest dog ever; goes to show it is all in how you raise them.

A feral hog was caught in 2022, about 35 miles east north east of me. There is some debate as to whether it is a feral hog that may have be a partly domestic hog because it is the biggest one anybody around here has ever seen. It was causing a tremendous amount of damage and destruction in the area and took these two guys a couple of weeks to actually get in position to where they could kill it. They knew where it was, but they had to be careful as it was on a lot of private land

 

[hawkdon]

Several years ago there were a couple tv shows abouut the
problem, mainly in texas I think, used to watch those shows...