[hrgrisso]

A buddy and I went on our Javalina (wild big pig) this weekend. We drove all over our area. We didn't see much of anything. Then we crested a hill in an area that looked great and on the other side was a "homestead" (looked more like a garbage dump...). The whole thing was gated etc. Pens had been placed all around inside the perimeter fence.

There was a piece of plywood painted up "Pig Sanctuary" with a painting of a Javalina blowing a raspberry.

There was an old man wearing beads and the whole area smoke of "SKUNK!"

I was a little angry :banghead: since we estimated that they had "sanctuaried" about five hundred pigs. Five hundred pigs that were not available to be hunted.

We reported them to Game and Fish since there seems to be very little legal ground which a person could do this and then release them (according to their website, I'll add it on her later) after hunting season was over. What do you all think?

[Pumpkinheaver]

The javelina is a game animal right? Fish and game should be able to do something about this. If he's trapping them does he have a license?

[MCgunner]

I'd have to read the game laws, but I think it Texas, trapping of a game animal is verboten. The limit to TAKING Javelina here is 2 per year. I think he'd be in violation. I think I'd snuck in outside the fence and shot one of 'em just for the heck of it.:fire:

[auschip]

Javelinas or pigs? If it's pigs, then odds are he can do it no problem. Javelinas it is probably illegal depending on your location.

[lawson]

javelina are a game animal in arizona, and you can only hunt them if you get drawn for them. more javelina tags are given out than deer, but not much more. they are small hairy critters, not much like pigs at all. not even the same species, though they have a common ancestry.

out of curiosity, where was this? i don't want to put in for a unit where someone is keeping all the game prisoner. last february we hunted on the north side of Roosevelt Lake, and we all filled our tags.

[MCgunner]

auschip

It's pig like, but not a pig. Texas is full of 'em, BTW, mostly south and west Texas and southern hill country. The Javelina (Collared Peccary) is of the same order as swine, as I understand it. Javelina is a regulated game animal in Texas and native to the south west.

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=50369&d=1167788030

[rustymaggot]

the name is collared peccary. not a pig. ive heard they were a part of the rat family but i had no verification for many years. i recently researched it and no, they are not rodents.

[pat86323]

i studied them a bit in a environmental biology class i took. They are not really related to anything that isnt extinct. They are the last of their genus, though if you had to relate them to something the closest living relative is a hippopotomus believe it or not. And yeah id like to know where this took place as well. Get a bottle of prickley pear juice and dump it on the hippies shoes.... betcha 50 bucks his little "pets" eat his feet.

[rustymaggot]

Get a bottle of prickley pear juice and dump it on the hippies shoes.... betcha 50 bucks his little "pets" eat his feet.

hahahahahahha.

[Full Clip]

Sounds like Hannibal Lecter stuff to me.