Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog in her yard: "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Officials said a wild hog attacked a woman in the back yard of her home. St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue reported that a 26-year-old woman was told there was a pig in her back yard Monday afternoon. When she went outside to investigate, the 200-pound animal charged her, cutting the back of her left leg.
Rescuers were able to treat the woman for her injury at the scene. An animal control officer lassoed the hog and transported it to the Pinellas County Animal Control Office for rabies testing."
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These wild piggies are not particularly afraid of people, they have two litters per year, and they eat everything that grows while leaving a trail of destruction behind them. And they taste great. A solution suggests itself...
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Hogs? In Privatopia?
That would turn it into Porkutopia.
Would that mean we'd be in hog heaven?
We would. Braised wild boar is excellent fare.
This an actual bona fide European wild boar?
They have the same problem now in the south of England. Some farms were raising them, for the meat of course, and as porcine beasts tend to do, they outwitted the farmer and escaped. And thus, after around four hundred years, the wild boar was inadvertently reintroduced to England.
In colder climates they can get HUGE. Not quite Iowa State Fair huge, but pretty enormous nonetheless.
I see Wikipedia shows them as introduced to the southeastern US and California.
I will post a photo of the one I shot. The way I understand it, the genetic picture is mixed up because there were many European or Russian boars brought here over the last 150 years or so. They can breed with domestic pigs that had been brought over in the colonial era. They have produced hybrids and they can all breed with each other. And people are still introducing other animals from Europe and Russia to this day.
This is the strange part. We were told that if you take domestic pigs and set them loose, in a generation or two the offspring look like Russian boars. When they become feral, the new generations get the upright ears, straight tails, ridge back, deep chest, and nasty disposition. So they revert to the appearance of the original Russian boars. So they say. But look at mine, and you see all those characteristics.
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