Gaining ground. Hunting will not stop wild pigs invasion in Canada.

nowarningshot said:
I hit the link before realising it was CBC. Now I need another shower to wash the social programming off.
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some people here make a buck by posting cBc links. CGN can bring significant traffic to their website.
Maybe should be a rule about posting links from communists websites. :)
 
essorx said:
Unless I'm mistaken, they can't even control them with choppers, vehicle, full-auto weapons and nvg/thermals. No way the average Canadian fudd double barrel shotgun from dawn to dusk is gonna do anything :-/
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The problem down south is far greater than here though, if we keep their numbers in check we might be able to avoid massive populations destroying everything like the south has in places.
 
We'd better keep ahead of them, or we will be looking at an economic as well as an agricultural disaster.

My greatest concern is that, apparently, they have not been able to control their invasion anywhere no matter how they have tried.

Ted
 
Butcherbill said:
Soon enough the animal right activists will be up in arms about saving the feral pig I bet...
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Funny, but most likely true. Take the feral cat rescue losers fer instance.:bangHead:

Feral hog is far better eatin' than the chem filled swine ye get at the store fer sure. I say bring on the buggers & allow us folks to take 'em with suppressed arms.:cool:
 
essorx said:
Unless I'm mistaken, they can't even control them with choppers, vehicle, full-auto weapons and nvg/thermals. No way the average Canadian fudd double barrel shotgun from dawn to dusk is gonna do anything :-/
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I guess there's some question about that. Some people regard them as just another hunting opportunity and want to keep them in play. We had a local population here, find a farm raising them and a few will slip under the fence, but they got eradicated real quick.

Grizz
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
Funny, but most likely true. Take the feral cat rescue losers fer instance.:bangHead:

Feral hog is far better eatin' than the chem filled swine ye get at the store fer sure. I say bring on the buggers & allow us folks to take 'em with suppressed arms.:cool:
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Speaking as a feral cat rescuer, cats are trapped, rendered unable to breed with any kittens removed and placed in homes. Colonies are allowed to live out their nature existence with volunteers feeding them one meal per day. Feral Cat colonies make a huge dent in local rodent populations which in turn protect human property. 99% of the feral cats I have come across have been a family pet at some point and were unlucky enough to get a psychopath for a pet owner.

My hope is that the hog population comes to Eastern Canada fast and big. Enough to force theses suburbanites to demand longer hunts closer to their precious plastic ponds and groomed lawns, then we can have some meat hunting in the summer and late winter and finally a lot less whining noise about guns going boom, boom.
 
fraserdw said:
Speaking as a feral cat rescuer, cats are trapped, rendered unable to breed with any kittens removed and placed in homes. Colonies are allowed to live out their nature existence with volunteers feeding them one meal per day. Feral Cat colonies make a huge dent in local rodent populations which in turn protect human property. 99% of the feral cats I have come across have been a family pet at some point and were unlucky enough to get a psychopath for a pet owner.

My hope is that the hog population comes to Eastern Canada fast and big. Enough to force theses suburbanites to demand longer hunts closer to their precious plastic ponds and groomed lawns, then we can have some meat hunting in the summer and late winter and finally a lot less whining noise about guns going boom, boom.
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Excellent post.
 
I saw some in New Hampshire near the farm in Grafton county, this is not very far from Québec, we should see them soon.
 
I think if people consider this a food/protein source in a serious manner, they would come up with a system of capture! Such as corralling them in some way and then killing them! Doing it one at a time, albeit fun, would be difficult to keep numbers down!
 
fraserdw said:
Speaking as a feral cat rescuer, cats are trapped, rendered unable to breed with any kittens removed and placed in homes. Colonies are allowed to live out their nature existence with volunteers feeding them one meal per day. Feral Cat colonies make a huge dent in local rodent populations which in turn protect human property. 99% of the feral cats I have come across have been a family pet at some point and were unlucky enough to get a psychopath for a pet owner.

My hope is that the hog population comes to Eastern Canada fast and big. Enough to force theses suburbanites to demand longer hunts closer to their precious plastic ponds and groomed lawns, then we can have some meat hunting in the summer and late winter and finally a lot less whining noise about guns going boom, boom.
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What about the cats impact on song birds and other non-pest species? I've heard it can be huge and problematic... I imagine they could take out grouse and their chicks too...
 
russm86 said:
What about the cats impact on song birds and other non-pest species? I've heard it can be huge and problematic... I imagine they could take out grouse and their chicks too...
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Thus the neutering and removal of kittens. As well as the destruction of unhealthy cats during neutering. The process is to eliminate the feral cat population humanely. Feral cat colonies do not typically accept new members so once a colony is fully neutered it is typical 2 to 4 years before it disappears. The real problem is the human that get cats for children and then realize that cats, poop, pee, groom and exercise their claws like normal mammals. Then they get a car ride to a park or a farm and get chucked out a window. No cat asked to be feral but a cat put into the situation will survive, just like you or any mammal. Problems in nature almost always comes back to the human element.
 
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