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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by spokesbeing on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:32AM (#35303010)
Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though:

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-...

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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by pixl97 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:40AM (#35303073)
When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and kill dozens of them at a time. The sheer number of hogs and the rate at which they breed down in the river bottoms is insane.

Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them, they are pretty clever and once you use a trick unsuccessfully on them they tend to avoid it.

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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by Mountain_Skies on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:43AM (#35303112)
Biological warfare, in one form or another, might be the only way, but that comes with risks that are probably unacceptable, even in light of the amount of damage they cause.
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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by HarryHirsch on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:35PM (#35304967)
Put lions in - wolves are too small, and jaguar won't touch them, jaguar is solitary but pigs come in packs.
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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by ETH_start on Saturday March 25, 2023 @03:10PM (#35305993)
Lions can't handle the Canadian climate, Siberian tigers can, and they are proficient boar hunters.
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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:55AM (#35303232)
>Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them

Same how Australia fought the Emus in The Great Emu war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wms8ZEtVQhg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by psychlops on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:49AM (#35303173)
It's nothing that increased farming won't solve. Farmers will efficiently eradicate any pest in their designated areas.
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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by cryptonector on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:30PM (#35304924)
| But if you just shoot one, the rest scatter.

But you don't shoot one. You shoot most of them. That requires thermal optics, semi-automatic rifles, high capacity magazines (and lots of them), ATVs or helicopters or well-planned stands with a good view of a clearing that hogs might hang out in at night.

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