My wife and I took a ride East of Ottawa today, looking for fields I could get permission to hunt geese in. On the way back home, I saw what I'm pretty sure is either a wild boar or feral hog. It was in among a bunch of horses, and was just happily trotting along. I've never seen domestic pigs in that area - and I drive by there pretty frequently - and I've never seen a domestic hog that looks like that. I have seen numerous wild boars (shot 2) and this sure looked like one. Sorry, no pics - I didn't have my phone.
I think I saw a wild boar/feral hog today
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Not crazy at all. I am wracking my brain to remember where I saw the article but it spoke about precisely this... loads of feral hogs appearing all over Ontario coming up from the US.
Stay safe when you are out looking for geese and here's to hoping MNR eventually gives us the go-head to clean them up.
Stay safe when you are out looking for geese and here's to hoping MNR eventually gives us the go-head to clean them up.
If you just stopped on a road and started shooting into someone's pasture with horses in it prepare for some charges and pissed off land owners lol
Yeah, they might even shoot back!
maple_leaf_eh
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That pet pig was killed near North Gower IIRC. Shot on the owner's property.
I would never shoot on someone's property without their permission. I'm pretty sure it was a wild hog, either way, and yes, the MNRF has told us to shoot them on sight, but I know if someone started shooting on my property without my permission, I'd be plenty pissed. Also, we had no guns with us, we were out on other business.
I think you might have found another reason to investigate the land you mention and drop in to the land owner and talk about the reason you stopped by.
Good Hunting !
Rob
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Not sure which incident you are referring to, but the incident in Navan a few years ago the farmers were keeping pot belly pigs, and the idiot hunter mistook them for wild boars. They don't look much alike. Interestingly, despite the trespassing, careless use, vandalism, destruction of property etc, Ottawa police was of the opinion they had no grounds to lay charges.
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Wow, talk about a miscarriage of justice, that is pathetic.
Just goes to show - you never know how the authorities will react. I wonder if the shooter in this case wasn't well connected?
I don't post very often on this forum but I'll make a rare exception in this case. I live south east of ottawa and raise heritage breed hogs. I know of several other farmers in the area that do the same. These animals don't do very well raised in a confined environment so you'll see them in fields on pasture quiet often. They come in all shapes sizes and colours and can look similar to a wild boar. As common sense dictates make sure you know where and what you're shooting at before pulling the trigger.Attachments
Cameron SS
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In the Navan case, the hunter knew exactly where he was and what he was shooting at. He asked the farmer permission to hunt and was denied. He told the farmer he saw wild boar on the property while scouting and the farmer told them they were pet pigs. The hunter called the farmer in advance for permission, but the farmer didn't answer so he trespassed anyways, shot the pigs, and then hid their bodies and lied to the farmer when he raced home to check in on things.
MNR apparently laid some fines, not sure if anything else came of it. And people are worried about going to jail if they forget a trigger lock.
You now have a situation where everyone is waiting with their finger on the trigger for your pig to get under or through the fence then BANG.
I am south of Ottawa, the number of times that you see posts on Facebook about a cow on the loose and the cops are taking hours and hours to corral it yet a pig now defaults to feral and can be shot the instant it is "wild".
Just to be clear - I did not say I saw, but that I think I saw. I have hunted wild boar (on a game ranch, but Russian boars nonetheless) twice and have seen feral hogs in the southern U.S. I have also seen a lot of farm hogs. This had the sloped head and massive chest of a boar, had the scruffier tail, was black (or very close to black). It did not look anything like the photo you posted. It also did not look like a pot bellied pig.
