Porky-pines!
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Thunderhog
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Yes, don't eat rodents!......
At present I don’t generally eat rodents but they seem popular on CGN.Yes, don't eat rodents!......
I've got nothing against the "if you shoot it, eat it" idea. If that's your rule great.
I don't eat coyote, fox, weasel, or skunk either. Neighbors have a lot of raccoon problems but I haven't noticed those in our yard in the 3 years we've been here.
I don't eat coyote, fox, weasel, or skunk either. Neighbors have a lot of raccoon problems but I haven't noticed those in our yard in the 3 years we've been here.
They show up on the trapline pretty much every year but I leave them be...walking meat source that can be killed with a stick....had one dog in particular who never learned so I spent some time pulling quills with pliers from her mouth...have had fishers and even marten with quills near their mouths wander into traps over the years....I just can't imagine a marten going after a porky but then again truth is stranger than fiction sometimes
Thunderhog
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Yes, as well as Liberal rodents!.......
LOL
I’m a registered kennel and active breeder with the CKC. Our dogs are like our children, any varmint that posses a threat of any kind to the well being of our dogs receives medication in the form of a 3800 fps 70g pill that sends them to their forever nap. Coons with distemper are a real threat this year and have been dispatched without a second thought. Yotes #1 on the vanquish list and yes pincushions follow up a close second. At least one of the aforementioned visitors gets a treatment once a month
Had a dog way back when I was a kid on the farm, dog was stupid, a couple times a year we had to pull quills out of his mouth, we tried to keep the porcupines exterminated but some slipped through the loop I know from personal experience that if you hit them with the 257 WM pushing a 110gr Nosler accubond @ about 3450 fps there is a huge quill show, took care of more than one for a farmer friend of mine who's dog seemed to like a snoot full of quills also
I know from personal experience that if you hit them with the 257 WM pushing a 110gr Nosler accubond @ about 3450 fps there is a huge quill show, took care of more than one for a farmer friend of mine who's dog seemed to like a snoot full of quills also
Londonshooter
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They really are cute little critters and in my experience they just like to be left alone. They will climb a tree rather than have a confrontation if given a chance.
I have read that in Ontario they are considered a non-game animal and property owners may kill them if there is a reasonable belief that they are damaging property or will damage property. My pointer got into one two years ago and that is when I discovered that no local vet would see her, nor the emergency vet service, unless we were already clients. And they weren't taking new clients. So it was 24 hours and 500km drive before the dog could be tended to, and close to a $1000 vet bill. Nothing personal against porcupines but I have shot 9 of them at my place in the past two years. I don't have experience with eating them but do know that when incinerated in a burning barrel of dry maple they smell pretty tasty once the quills burn off. There are still some more around on my property and I honestly dread encountering them when out with the dogs.
Anyone ever hear porcs talking to each other? There is no sound like it.
I have read that in Ontario they are considered a non-game animal and property owners may kill them if there is a reasonable belief that they are damaging property or will damage property. My pointer got into one two years ago and that is when I discovered that no local vet would see her, nor the emergency vet service, unless we were already clients. And they weren't taking new clients. So it was 24 hours and 500km drive before the dog could be tended to, and close to a $1000 vet bill. Nothing personal against porcupines but I have shot 9 of them at my place in the past two years. I don't have experience with eating them but do know that when incinerated in a burning barrel of dry maple they smell pretty tasty once the quills burn off. There are still some more around on my property and I honestly dread encountering them when out with the dogs.
Anyone ever hear porcs talking to each other? There is no sound like it.
That would be salt.
In R.M. Patterson book, The trail to the interior, natives were hired as line men to help the supply boat up the rifles on the Stikine river. The boat always came to stop every time a porky was seen and didn't move until the line men had cooked and eaten it. Didn't take long they liked it heavy on the rare side.
canadaman30
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I have to completely wrap my wooden hunting blinds with chicken wire and spray with liquid repellant. They'll eat a plywood box blind like candy in spring time.
22lr is my eradicating tool of choice..
22lr is my eradicating tool of choice..
Thunderhog
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A porcupine has quite the vocals indeed. When injured or distressed they can sound like a human baby crying.
It's a very distinct sound. I no longer hunt or shoot porcupines, used to destroy them for the Forestry/Replanting people up in Prince George back in 1985.
We don't see that many porcupines out in the wild these days, when we do, it's just a time to view them at a distance. I no longer have bird hunting dogs, so I don't bother these quilly characters.
