What the fuck did you genuinely say we should introduce bears and wolves to combat pigs? As metal as that sounds it is probably the single funniest and poorly thought out statement I've read in a while. Look at the map previously posted, I don't think introducing bears and wolves to central Texas is going to improve the situation.
This case is less about hunting and more like pest control. The main issue I have with this instance was they already had the feral hogs subdued in a cage, so there was no need to use them for target practice by releasing them regardless of the weapons they used.
As far as pest control goes though, I’d say nothing should really be off limits as long as it works well and doesn’t cause collateral damage.
For example: using large amounts of poisons which harm the environment or ecology would be bad, but chasing them in an open field with an M240 mounted on a Humvee would be fine.
how would introducing predators be more humane?
do you think animals kill each other humanely? :v
So your decision is either ignore the issue until it goes away with a fence
Or disrupt the environment far worse than just killing them would
What fucking hippy nonsense is this lmao
You raise a good point. Why don't we just ask the hogs to leave politely and use our superior diplomatic skills to convey them?
instead of killing the hogs ourselves we should send out squads of professional trappers to capture them and put them in shelters where they can fight each other to the death in the thunderdome and drive themselves to extinction
My solution is we burn them alive with flamethrowers and eat the instacooked flesh
The more they scream in agony the better they taste
TWO PIG ENTER
ONE PIG LEAVE
Aw, it was a reply to my post, so now I wanna know what you said.
The only predator that could possibly deal with wild hogs are wolves, and we would need an inconceivable amount of wolves where it would be much more efficient to just fucking shoot them. Wild hogs already drive out other animals from their habitats, so we don't need to be throwing wolves into the mix.
Damn that guy's a good pilot.
Thats what sucks shit about boar, the meat is total ass and filled with all kinds of nasty shit.
Yep. Some people take the tusks for trophies but other than that I don't know of any use for them. Their diet and activity level makes them taste awful.
If only we could convince the elephant hunters and/or people in china who want ivory that wild boar/pig tusks were the perfect alternative. The problem'd be gone in a month.
There's really not much of an other way. If there was, then it would've been thought of by now by the quarter of the country that has to deal with them on a fairly frequent basis. They're pests and they need to be controlled. The fact that you brought up fences to combat them earlier shows how little you've actually looked into this subject and just decided to hop in with a "holier-than-thou" attitude.
What are you going to throw at these hardy, angry things which would have a reliable 'Win rate'? Goddamn bea-
...I did not expect to be beaten to the punch on that.
Even if there was a type of bear or wolf which loved pig meat above all else, and they were persistent enough to stalemate the growth of what as far as I can tell is something on par with the survivability and breeding rate of rats, the end result would be that they would have a bear or wolf problem afterwards. And since this is a hypothetical where the bears/wolves merely keep the pigs in check, instead of eating them all and then dying out from lack of food, they're setting up shop from then to eternity.
Then your stuck with the alpha hog, who gained the power of all those it killed before, like some sort of pig highlander o me something.
We need to invent a way for the pigs to attack each other.
Turn the massive swarm of 100 pigs into 20 relatively tiny groups of 5 mutinous pigs and this problem would disappear overnight..
Two hogs enter.
No hogs leave.
Introducing more species is how you fuck up the ecosystem even more.
I think problem people really have is that they're "enjoying it". The fact that it is a minigun should mean nothing, (other than it's expensive as hell).
When The Australian Army declared war on the Emus, they used truck mounted machine guns. So what's the big deal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Yeah, I'm surprised so many people seem to be missing the point. Culling destructive overpopulated animals is fine. Penning said animals, then releasing them in a field to be mowed down by a minigun for entertainment is a completely different issue altogether.
People who never had to deal with hogs, people who never spent days painstakingly erecting fences and growing vegetables only to wake up one day and find the fence smashed, the plants fucking gone, and hog hoof prints absolutely everywhere, people who probably have never seen a single hog in their entire lives:
"Omg that's CRUEL why won't they find a painless and humane way to deal with those poor disgusting pig-shaped spawns of Satan and Hitler?"
Me, an intellectual:
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/125/816/fb9.gif
the feral pigs being left alone disrupts the ecosystem more than us killing them
We're as much a part of local and global ecosystems as everything else. Acting like its anything else is kinda dimwitted.
No ones saying that isn't true, but we're here to stay, so everyone who wants piggies to roam free is just going to have to live with that.
so if the wild hogs were not caged, would using a minigun on them be acceptable?
they should cage them all and then put them into a giant hydraulic press, i think that'd be pretty bad ass
Will they explode? Lets find out!
it is veury dangoorus and may aettack at any moment, so ve must DEAL WITH IT
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