Are feral hogs a problem in Canada?

skimmer said:
Huge problem. There aren't enough to shoot.
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If you said the same thing in cafe full of rural folks in an area plagued with them...you'd be really unpopular.
They are a financial burden as they destroy crops, but you wish there were more?
Not a well thought out statement. It'd be like rural folks wishing a plague of cougars or raccoons upon your neighborhood, not a nice thing to wish on your neighbors.
 
tokguy said:
If you said the same thing in cafe full of rural folks in an area plagued with them...you'd be really unpopular.
They are a financial burden as they destroy crops, but you wish there were more?
Not a well thought out statement. It'd be like rural folks wishing a plague of cougars or raccoons upon your neighborhood, not a nice thing to wish on your neighbors.
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you are right,

However, I think some of the farmers where i am at would prefer the hogs. at least when you shoot them you get some meat, unlike the coyote/wolves that are taking down livestock on a regular basis. Shoot them and there is nothing other than a deap predator.
 
It does vex me when someone says something moronic like "Wish there were more" concerning what is a problem situation...so they can voice their intent to hunt something they are obviously not informed on.
Go into a Coffee shop in Jenner or Buffalo, AB and spout off about how great the Elk situation is...you'd be lucky to not get a punch in the nose. I'd think Feral hogs are not dis-similar.
Wildlife problems cost local rural landowners considerable money, folks; show a little intelligence and class. If you want to help; then offer, but don't spout off about how great it is as you want to shoot something.
 
They have organized hunt parties in Europe & USA where they go on horseback with spears. That sounds pretty interesting.
 
There are not nearly as many here in Sask as there used to be as there was a very devout culling program a while back whereby a select few gov't butt-kissers got to fly around and shoot them. Didn't matter if they were on private land, etc.
 
saskcop said:
There are not nearly as many here in Sask as there used to be as there was a very devout culling program a while back whereby a select few gov't butt-kissers got to fly around and shoot them. Didn't matter if they were on private land, etc.
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I'm unsurprised that they didn't tell me about that.
 
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