Flintknapper
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jdmerk wrote:
Until you actually put some thought to it:
1. Dogs have to eat (which means I have to feed a half dozen of them).
2. Dogs have to be trained to hunt hogs (most are not born ready to go).
3. Unless have really good dogs...they will also chase other animals and livestock (something less than desirable).
4. Free roaming dogs (unless on thousands of acres of land) will invariably cross over onto neighboring property. They don't last long that way.
5. Unless you have "catch dogs"...the dogs will only chase and occasionally "bay" the hogs. No hogs are actually KILLED....(does nothing to reduce the population).
6. Every time hogs are chased by dogs (but escape), they learn from the experience and become harder to locate next time.
7. When #6 (above) happens, it only serves to educate the hogs...while at the same time....spreading them out (geographically). So, even if I don't have hogs....now my neighbor does (and so on...). The object is NOT to scare hogs off of my property, but rather to KILL every one of them I can.
There is only one solution to the Feral Hog problem that makes any sense:
KILL as many as possible whenever, however...you can. Then urge your neighbors to do the same. Anything short of that....only results in "swapping hogs"....all the while, they are making more. Understand?
Flint.
I don't consider it presumptuous at all. Niave......but not presumptuous.Sorry if this seems a little too presumptuous for my first post...but why not get a pack of hog dogs to patrol the property?
True.You mention how hogs hate dogs.
I have five dogs already...and if letting them loose would control the hogs around here I (and everyone else) would have figured that out and employed the method.You could get a half dozen hounds, spay/neuter them or select all male/female if you are worried about them going feral and displacing the hogs. Keep them as pseudo family pets so they stay accustomed to you...or as dedicated family pets that just roam free.
Yes, but Deer Season is exactly when you least want hogs. Also, Deer Season in Texas runs about 3 full months (including archery season), thats a long time to keep dogs penned up.You could pin them up during deer season so they don't run the deer off too.
Seems like the obvious, least expensive least time consuming solution to the problem..
Until you actually put some thought to it:
1. Dogs have to eat (which means I have to feed a half dozen of them).
2. Dogs have to be trained to hunt hogs (most are not born ready to go).
3. Unless have really good dogs...they will also chase other animals and livestock (something less than desirable).
4. Free roaming dogs (unless on thousands of acres of land) will invariably cross over onto neighboring property. They don't last long that way.
5. Unless you have "catch dogs"...the dogs will only chase and occasionally "bay" the hogs. No hogs are actually KILLED....(does nothing to reduce the population).
6. Every time hogs are chased by dogs (but escape), they learn from the experience and become harder to locate next time.
7. When #6 (above) happens, it only serves to educate the hogs...while at the same time....spreading them out (geographically). So, even if I don't have hogs....now my neighbor does (and so on...). The object is NOT to scare hogs off of my property, but rather to KILL every one of them I can.
Right...............that is unless you enjoy the hunting and trapping and destruction that the hogs bring to the property.
There is only one solution to the Feral Hog problem that makes any sense:
KILL as many as possible whenever, however...you can. Then urge your neighbors to do the same. Anything short of that....only results in "swapping hogs"....all the while, they are making more. Understand?
Flint.
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