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After seeing the devastation that introduced pigs have wreaked in Australia, I can't imagine anyone in their right mind deliberately releasing them into the wild. From a few pigs that escaped from the first settlers'/invaders' farms 200 years ago or more, there are now over 2 million wild pigs in the state of Queensland alone. About one pig for every two humans. Some of them are HUGE too. And the damage they do to the countryside is colossal and often irreparable as they destroy plants right down to lower roots level under ground.

I think there are 20 million feral hogs in the USA causing billions of dollars worth of damage per year? Even with their unlimited supply of guns they can't control them.

Tony

We have those in East Anglia but they are know as Wash Bisons

;O)

Actually back when I was small it was the free roaming sheep that caused much of the mess and damage particularly in Bream where my Nan lived. Woe betide anyone who left the garden gate open as it was bye bye flower and vegetable beds.

regards Martin

Some business have started up in the Southern USA that buy wild pigs and process for food, Sounds like a win-win, not for the hogs but They don't post here anyway,

Pigs are such nice animals, we used to keep them in the parlour over here, years ago.

So they said, anyway.

Funny how we got on to wild animals after BOAT was miss-spelled

Seems likely that we cannot manage boats or boars!

Edited By V8Eng on 09/11/2022 08:39:36

I had thought initially that it should be BOAT, but steered clear of that as it is political and would probably end in the post being closed. Besides the post concerning boars has, I think, enlightened a few. Plus I have learnt something with regard to the problems wild pigs / hogs are causing in other countries.

Regards

Gray

We had the reverse situation of this a few years ago. We were on holiday abroad & the apartment was burgled, ipad/phones etc taken. I sent my daughter a text message from the people next door's phone, asking her to block our phones. She replied to the text saying she didn't recognise the number & asked the sender to prove who they were i.e. me. I sent her another text with the name of her boyfriend & my DOB. Since then, we have a family password to identify each other in case a similar situation arises in the future. very simple but effective.