Yes the article hits most of the marks - feral pigs are a nightmare for pristine areas and areas people would prefer not disturbed / uprooted resulting in a damaged landscape, water run off issues ... as well as outing the presence of people who don't make it easy for controlling the problem, motivated in protecting and aiding the spread of pigs, for their own reasons.
I've seen the same in my locale, though the removal of the bounty based on weight has certainly eased things considerably, IMO. Yes we had idiots that had this brilliant idea of taking small often drought afflicted pigs they'd caught alive a couple hundred miles inland, to the fertile lush coast to live in the thick vegetation on the various hills but would fatten up on local farm crops for a few months so they were good money at the box - a place paying a bounty based on weight as the carcass was on-sold, to be turned into pet meat. I also see the people who don't like baiting due to more often casually placed baits too close or near other people with pets, most end up making any unchained dogs sick / dead as the poison is very effective. (However the sodium nitrite method - in a pig carcass I would think is quite safe for dogs though they don't tend to eat that much of a carcass.) More often I saw the main problem of feral pig removal may way, came down to the sport of hunting the pigs with their hunting dogs - and those involved tend to only get a smaller percentage of the local feral pig mob, since 100% reduction means they would have to find new hunting grounds every week or two if that was their weekend's hobby activity.
Yes the article hits most of the marks - feral pigs are a nightmare for pristine areas and areas people would prefer not disturbed / uprooted resulting in a damaged landscape, water run off issues ... as well as outing the presence of people who don't make it easy for controlling the problem, motivated in protecting and aiding the spread of pigs, for their own reasons.
I've seen the same in my locale, though the removal of the bounty based on weight has certainly eased things considerably, IMO. Yes we had idiots that had this brilliant idea of taking small often drought afflicted pigs they'd caught alive a couple hundred miles inland, to the fertile lush coast to live in the thick vegetation on the various hills but would fatten up on local farm crops for a few months so they were good money at the box - a place paying a bounty based on weight as the carcass was on-sold, to be turned into pet meat. I also see the people who don't like baiting due to more often casually placed baits too close or near other people with pets, most end up making any unchained dogs sick / dead as the poison is very effective. (However the sodium nitrite method - in a pig carcass I would think is quite safe for dogs though they don't tend to eat that much of a carcass.) More often I saw the main problem of feral pig removal may way, came down to the sport of hunting the pigs with their hunting dogs - and those involved tend to only get a smaller percentage of the local feral pig mob, since 100% reduction means they would have to find new hunting grounds every week or two if that was their weekend's hobby activity.
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