Huge feral hogs invading Canada, building pigloos as they go

Rynnik said:
We farm south of Hamilton and I can't imagine how much of a mess these things can make. Dreading the day they show up in my back yard but I'll go fully to war against them on that day. I understand that they are really smart and will move to avoid pressure so likely I'll just be making the invasion worse for my neighbors lol. I really hope Ontario doesn't do something stupid with hunting regs and they stay as unregulated open season pests that they will need to be to have an impact on them.
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Let me know if they show up, we'll grab a few others and a M101...

Ubique
 
It's impossible to know if we have a hog "problem". You hear it on the news, but no-one I know has ever seen one.

If there's rumor that there are some in an area and you ask around, there is either none there or nobody will tell you where they are.
 
Hunt&Hook said:
It's impossible to know if we have a hog "problem". You hear it on the news, but no-one I know has ever seen one.

If there's rumor that there are some in an area and you ask around, there is either none there or nobody will tell you where they are.
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This. Keep reading about them running amock and on the maps showing, "known locations" the rm we're in is supposed to be rife with them, and no one's ever seen one, or damage due to.
 
Hunt&Hook said:
It's impossible to know if we have a hog "problem". You hear it on the news, but no-one I know has ever seen one.

If there's rumor that there are some in an area and you ask around, there is either none there or nobody will tell you where they are.
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What I got from that entire article is that it is an exercise in drumming up funding for a couple university folks that don't want a regular job.

They went on and on about the destructiveness of the boars & that they need eradicated but only generalities on locals of where they are at...not one specific location was given nor was there, in this day and age of digital info maps, was there any reference given to a site specific to their where-abouts. It seems to me that they just want to give the impression that their work is super important...simply a 'self-granandizing of themselves to illicit funding.

Now before anybody jumps down my throat...I totally think that total eradication is the tact that should be taken over these hogs...these folks don't have that foremost in their efforts I don't think.
 
the study maker made me laugh. you cannot control eurasian wild boar on the original continent. why she is even thinking you can control them lol ... if the wild ones found a good food source they will get 2 times a year piglets and after that it is over ...
 
Hey, we got rats under control in Alberta, we can do this if we work at it . Problem is the guys who think this is just another hunting opportunity, some of whom aren't about releasing a few piggies. Our County made the keeping of wild boar illegal, the few here are toast.

Grizz
 
I was chatting with a buddy in the RCMP. He was saying there is still an investigation into members of a Fish & Game club that are linked to releasing feral hogs near Pincher Creek and in the Porkies back in the mid 90s. I hear the occasional story of people seeing hogs by Turner Valley but I have yet to even see tracks in any of those areas. Even in the Mayerthorpe and Sangudo hotspots, after all my time out there, not even a track.
 
Trying hard not to get the Isolation fever and be growly... but it's not at all like the funny papers with Asterix & Obelix.
It's not a trivial matter; there won't be great roast boar whilst quaffing tankards of Ale.
If the Landowner has a problem, he ain't gonna Joe Urban wander around with his Canoe paddle 7-08 or 6.5 CRM. That'll likely just drive them deeper into the bush, make them smarter & ultimately harder to deal with.
Supposing you are Joe Urban (Nice RealTree Turtleneck there BTW. Not my style really...thanks. 6.5 CRM...that's nice too...) polish your professional hunter persona... you want to sound like you know what you are doing.
These Boar are a really expensive problem for rural folk plagued by them... so don't come across as an excited Green hunter when conversing with Landowners
And you are right Griz...we can get them too.
 
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Hunt&Hook said:
It's impossible to know if we have a hog "problem". You hear it on the news, but no-one I know has ever seen one.

If there's rumor that there are some in an area and you ask around, there is either none there or nobody will tell you where they are.
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Ever watch Quick #### McDick on youtube? He's down around Tuffnel, you occasionally see wild pigs running around in the background of this videos. Maybe not hard proof, but certainly evidence that they are around.
Check out the link that yomamma posted, it shows where people have seen them. Hunters get cagey about what wildlife they see, and especially where they saw it. They want that information for themselves.
 
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