SUPER HOGS MAY INVADE THE US FROM CANADA

[DoneNOut]

To buy a plane ticket?

... or witness an ecological disaster?

For the hogs to come to me! I'm so jealous of the guys that can shoot them off their porch. I have to drive 13hrs to do that!

 

[Mike Matteson]

Same on this side of the divide.I got a buck tag 3 years in a row and got 1 buck 2 years ago.
Slim pickins my friend!

We got protect the wolves,

 

[xsn10s]

Pork chops and applesauce.

 

[30378wbymag]

I would think wolves would clean em out, I think they'd be the only predator that could. Once they got a taste for pulled pork sammy's it'd be all over!!!

 

[xsn10s]

I would think wolves would clean em out, I think they'd be the only predator that could. Once they got a taste for pulled pork sammy's it'd be all over!!!

I think if that were the case the Canadian wolves would have done it already.

 

[Calvin45]

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I've been following the Canadian Hog Problem pretty closely for the last few years... and the problem is growing.

Provinces have taken different approaches so far;

In Alberta, they'll pay you for a pair of ears

Saskatchewan says, shoot 'em if you got em

Manitoba is still trying to figure out what to do

But Ontario says DONT shoot them. Trust the government to trap and euthanize. According to some study they did, hunting of hogs only fractures the pods and creates stress, which causes them to breed more rapidly...

Pfffff….Ontario WOULD say that!

Wait till the Ontarians figure out how tasty they can be, especially the small ones!

 

[billflangjr813]

Super Hogs may soon invade the US from Canada. Most likely in the North Dakota Boarder.
Most thought that Feral Hogs were in the Southern States.
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Let them come. Maybe they'll make it to Florida one day.

 

[Mike Matteson]

Hell you got snakes there and big one's.

 

[Muddyboots]

Got a rare pic of one. Sometimes too fast for shutter speed.

 

[30378wbymag]

I think if that were the case the Canadian wolves would have done it already.

They don't have any southern BBQ sauce up there is why, wolves have taste buds too!!!

 

[Calvin45]

I think if that were the case the Canadian wolves would have done it already.

Yep

 

[Calvin45]

They don't have any southern BBQ sauce up there is why, wolves have taste buds too!!!

To feed the stereotypes…we Canadians are famous for maple syrup…pair it with a hog…MAPLE BACON!!!!

I don't care how picky and pretentious them wolves may be, if they ain't eating it they can get the heck out of my way!

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

They don't have any southern BBQ sauce up there is why, wolves have taste buds too!!!

quarter them down, put 'em in a smoker for 12-14 hours and feed the block...

 

[Double Naught Spy]

That's how the feral hogs plaguing the southern states and slowly moving north came about. A few escaped the pens and over the years they've population grew to where they cause billions of dollars of damage every year.

Free ranging of hogs as a way to raise them has been common since the first settlements. Jamestown was so overrun with feral hogs that they had to build a stockade. Wall Street and the construction of the wall were threatened by freeranged hogs https://untappedcities.com/2013/07/...ts-wall-street-wall-almost-destroyed-by-pigs/

My father grew up in east Texas, and part of his chores were to turn the hogs out in the morning (to forage the bottoms) and he would be responsible for whistling up the hogs in the evenings. He didn't always return with the same number he let loose. Sometimes there were more and sometimes less. Every so often, neighbors would return errant hogs. Some were gone forever.

So it wasn't so much that hogs escaped as much as they just failed to come back home. With that said, I don't doubt some hogs actually did escape from confined pens and such, but a tremendous number of ranchers historically just free ranged their hogs. HOWEVER, the biggest problem since the 80s has been the intentional trapping and relocating of hogs to new areas. Laws have had to be passed to help slow this activity. After all, after hundreds of years of ranching and free ranging of hogs across the country, it is interesting that they have only very recently (last 40 years) become a true problem with hogs appearing in areas where they apparently weren't previously.