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Originally Posted by MuffinsMom Anyone watch this? How horrible! These people unleash these dogs on these defenseless pigs and they tear them up!!!! The poor pigs are screaming from pain! Its outlawwed in only one state Louisiana I think it said. The people said they were just training the dog to hunt! Miserable rotten people!!!! Grrrrrr......MuffinsMom |
I didn't see this show....but as usual I suspect it has not been portrayed correctly. I'm NOT sure if you are talking about "pigs" as in farm pigs or "WILD BOAR" as in
a wild vicious animal which can take down a full size cow or horse or KILL A HUMAN in the woods of Louisiana. Wild Boar have huge curled tusks which will cut a man to pieces.......if you manage to get yourself to a tree.....he will sit there for HOURS waiting for you to retreat from the tree. Men (including my father and/or brothers) have been known to sit in trees all night because of some Wild insane boar. They are determined MEAN creatures and very dangerous. If left to breed and multiple.....without hunts....they would quickly over populate the area.
Also wild boar are a serious danger to automobiles.....if an auto hits a deer.....usually the deer will be thrown over the vehicle....yes there is damage....but the humans probably will survive. With Wild Boar......we talking a 200 LB plus animal standing only a couple of feet tall. When struck by an automobile they quite often roll UNDER the vehicle....this causes the dirver to lose control and even roll the vehicle. There have been some really serious accidents involving wild boar and automobiles.
The only way to hunt these vicious creatures is with "hog dogs"......but like everything else there are abuses. Hog Dogs.....do not rip or tear up a wild boar.....his only job is to find and contain the boar until the hunter can arrive. These dogs are considered very valuable animals....because they are bred for the job which they do.....to allow them to get ripped up by a wild boar is contra-productive to the hunter. NO humane hunter would allow his dog to be RIPPED UP or KILLED by a Wild Boar. The dogs are taught exactly what their job is.....which is to CONTAIN the animal.....they usually work in packs....and each pack member knows exactly what to do!
I know some do not agree with game hunting and/or fishing......hunting Wild Boar is a sport.....same as deer hunters or any big game hunters. But in the rural areas of the United States.......hunting Wild Boar is benetifical to humans. I know some do not agree with this.....but Wild Boar do not have any natural enemies....only man can reduce their numbers down to something less dangerous to humans. Please do not forget......a HUGE portion of the populace in the United States still live in very very rural areas. We don't have to worry about horrid human attacks...but must learn to live with the wild life.
But I say again.....AS IN ALL THINGS when man is involved there will be abuses....and I also do not condone the story protrayed the way in which you told it. I didn't see the story. But pleeeaaaseee be open minded.....these Wild Boar are a serious threat to any other mammal.....man, horse, cow, etc.....vicious vicious animals!!
But as I said.....I didn't see the show.....don't know if your talking farm pigs....or actual wild boar.
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Here is some information on the Wild Boar Conservation Assoc. and their beliefs.....
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THE WILD BOAR CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
PATRICK MYERS, WBCA, 14300 Chef Menteur Highway,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70129-2013
The Wild Boar Conservation Association was organized in July 1985 at a meeting in Mobile, Alabama. The association is a dedicated group of hog hunters that want the Wild Boar to receive the credit he deserves as an outstanding game animal.
The members want the hog hunters of America to organize in such a way as to help the Wild Boar survive and where he now roams for the purpose of hunting.
We are opposed to hog hunters that show no respect for the hog and hunt with the bull dogs loose or too many dogs loose that kill pigs, maim sows and shoats and eventually get their dogs cut to pieces by a tough old boar. We take pride in our dogs and respect the Wild Boar as the greatest large game animal in North America.
Hog hunters are a rare breed who depend on their dogs, sometimes to save them from serious injury, more so than any other hunter who hunts with dogs. He depends on dogs to locate, bay and catch the most dangerous animal in the woods.