alsaqr
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Hogs are wreaking havoc on well manicured lawns, etc.
City of San Ramon being terrorized by wild boars (yahoo.com)
City of San Ramon being terrorized by wild boars (yahoo.com)
California City Has A Wild Hog Problem
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Grumulkin
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It couldn’t happen in a better place.
Speedo66
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Earthquakes, floods, droughts, mudslides, forest fires, and now lawn terrorists.
When will it end?
When will it end?
edwardware
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Beat me to it.
22250Rem
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Wow. I wonder if they are becoming emboldened by the fact that they are pretty much "untouchable" when in town like that. In a rural area they would most likely learn to avoid lawns after they start getting shot at. Too bad folks have to hire a licensed trapper and get a depredation permit just to trap & relocate them. I'd bet the local government will soon start a trapping program after enough damage gets done and city hall gets enough irate residents contacting them.
1942bull
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IN CA they probably relocate them to a place where they will be safe. That way the hogs can make more and more piglets only compounding the problem, which CA has proven itself to be expert at doing. In my township when the deer begin to be a residential problem the TWP hires bow hunters to thin out the population. It keeps the deep population and nuisance in check.
Shanghai McCoy
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Why don't they have Animal Control take care of it..?
Also, the article says Northern California but that's more the East Bay Area.
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"California City Has A Wild Hog Problem"
California City???
Ain't no hogs or manicured lawns in California City!!! Fire ants and sand... Yes
A California city 35 miles east of the San Francisco Bay... possibility.
California City???
Ain't no hogs or manicured lawns in California City!!! Fire ants and sand... Yes
A California city 35 miles east of the San Francisco Bay... possibility.
Flintknapper
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Homeowners says the hogs were digging holes "with their tusks". City folk.........!
If they try to do anything about the hogs....the PETA people will protest in front of their home. Gov't will probably find a way to TAX you for having hogs or subsidize the hogs (they do everything else it seems).
If they try to do anything about the hogs....the PETA people will protest in front of their home. Gov't will probably find a way to TAX you for having hogs or subsidize the hogs (they do everything else it seems).
22250Rem
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14 years ago we had a bear in the woods right next door to me. He was raiding bird feeders at a neighbors place diagonally across the road from me. Dept. of Environmental Conservation guys set up what I called a "giant Havahart trap" for him in the back yard among the feeders. Basically a big cage on a two axle trailer. Don't know what they used for bait but they got him and relocated him far away. I'd bet the animal control folks in Cal. could utilize something like that if they don't wish to kill them.
Flintknapper
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But they should 'wish to kill them'. The reason they have them is because there are too many of them. There is no large mammal that is a more prolific breeder. Getting rid of them is the only answer. NOT relocating them so they can continue to multiply.
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Well take em.....thats a long boat ride tho.....
Not really sure why but the populations don't seem to explode out here like they do on the mainland.
22250Rem
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..... I'm in complete agreement with that; although it's hard to convince a lot of the animal control folks. They seem content to just shift the problem to another area that they aren't responsible for. The nuisance bear we had went south from right by the shore of Lake Ontario down to the NY- Pennsylvania border where there's a lot of state and federal land. Hogs would be a different story; I'd almost bet that they could get euthanized ( as the conservation guys say) due to their breeding rates and provable damage to crops and private property. Although in California the animal rights groups may not like that.
Speedo66
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That's because the chickens are eating all the food. lol
Let PETA line up in front of the hogs.
It better yet stand in front of the trap when they release them.
Flintknapper
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It's because we don't have Luau's and put them in the ground enough here.
Naw....I don't know either, maybe your pigs are just better behaved.
FL-NC
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They should try to make friends and co-exist with them, since the government won't agree with a Texas solution.
tightgroup tiger
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Naw, California will probably just try to pass a law to deal with their problem and try to make it affect all the US.
Like California and New York always do.
The Texas Solution is the only way to deal with them.
Giving them to the pigs, they'll just eat them.
Like California and New York always do.
The Texas Solution is the only way to deal with them.
Oh!! You meant giving coloring books to the pigs, I was going to agree with giving coloring books to the bleeding hearts in California. That may be meaningfull for them.
Giving them to the pigs, they'll just eat them.
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The title of the linked article very clearly says “The city of San Ramon”.
Mod note, this thread is treading on thin ice, let’s keep it about hogs and hunting and skip the politics.
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I'd like to relocate a couple of them into my freezer.
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