[LndLocked]

Originally Posted by scrapple

I woke up during the night to yipping and thought it was probably foxes. Glad to know Nature feels comfortable enough to live with us.

Their are dif Fox and Coyote around.

[TNLAKEPANDA]

I have a smoker!

[getdul981]

Wild hogs are wild hogs. Wild boars are wild male hogs. Wild sows are wild female hogs. All boars are hogs, but not all hogs are boars.

[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by TNLAKEPANDA

I have a smoker!

[Neal2tire]

With the exposure on this site I'm sure the management is on it. In most cases controlled hunting is done with bows and in some cases guns. Thanks for the heads up. I walk every night about midnight.
NG

[Bizdoc]

I have a mountain feist (a type of dog bred in the Appalachians for hunting small game). She responds rather strongly to the presence of wild animals (dinner time!). When we first moved to South Fernandina (on the edge of the desert), she regularly would get her hackles up during late evening walks. She still does from time to time. (No, she doesn't tell me what she's thinking about for her midnight snack.)

The point is that this part of TV was range land until very recently. All kinds of critters lived here. Some still do. Unlike the Disney channel or Animal Planet, some of them would be happy to eat you for dinner. Like the nature preserves? The price for having them is that nature lives there including animals you may not really want as neighbors.

[PaPaLarry]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

My sarcasm detector went off!

My experience with wild hogs has been mainly eating them while in hunting camp. A close friend and hunting buddy from my college days is an acknowledged expert regarding Florida wild hogs. He manufactures special hunting ammunition specifically for killing these dangerous animals. He has personally killed many dozens of them, usually when they are charging him with the intent to harm him.

Generally, they will flee in the presence of humans, but you can't count on this. The older and larger males have very dangerous tusks. Don't seek out a confrontation with wild hogs.

I'm including a couple of photos from the ammunition web site. My buddy James C. Gates is in one of the photos.

Wow!!!! Very interesting.

[nitehawk]

I just know that the powers to be will take care of everything

[cwbrandt]

So after no response from the golf course people, I followed the great suggestion by kittygilchrist and called community watch who came out yesterday and said it would be handled. They called this morning and said that a hog hunter would come out to handle the problem.

Meanwhile I now realize that there have been holes in my garden which probably were also made by these hogs. They dug up some lily bulbs and other flowers I had just planted. We also had some animal dig up the corrugated pipe which we had buried 2-3 years ago to take water from the downspout farther away from the house. I suspect that some smaller animal was in the pipe and a larger animal wanted to get to it. I don't know if we can blame the hogs for that but it was close to the area they visited yesterday.

[perrjojo]

We have had some wild hogs here in Haciendas of Mission Hills. My daughter lives on a horse ranch in Texas and they have occasionally had problems with wild hogs. They can tear up an entire pasture in no time. They are destructive and can be dangerous.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Neal2tire

With the exposure on this site I'm sure the management is on it. In most cases controlled hunting is done with bows and in some cases guns. Thanks for the heads up. I walk every night about midnight.
NG

Hogs are baited into a trap with food.

[Chi-Town]

Where is the "Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent when you need him? He claimed to have killed 455 hogs one weekend last year with a machine gun. I think he said that he shot them from a helicopter. 750 rounds per minute.

[BobnBev]

And I though this thread would be------------





"boar".......ing

[Average Guy]

Maybe these wild pigs/boars could be trained to patrol the squares so that no one saves seats anymore.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Average Guy

Maybe these wild pigs/boars could be trained to patrol the squares so that no one saves seats anymore.

LOL! I'm happy that this situation being posted has been educational to folks not from around here about the jeopardy of thinking pigs are all domesticated and cute.
Some posters made me proud who kept putting awareness of danger back into view, esp moderator and Carl. I suppose this area, like all places, has its dangers. Lucky for us most of them here are seldom encountered, and if you know what to do and not, you'll likely be okay.

Except for those pesky seat savers, the beasts. Seat Hogs, that's what they are.