Day four of "Panico 09!" is upon us, and everybody is treating anything having to do with hogs or pigs as un-kosher. So this is as good a time as any to offer good lifetime advice: Avoid Missouri's feral hogs!
Yes, Missouri has a small but stout population of wild pigs, just roaming around and waiting to infect city folk with their terrible swine flu. OK, that's not true. Every single case of swine flu in America came from other human beings, not pigs, and there is a very good chance that none of Missouri's feral hog populations carries the respiratory disease. (It's never been detected in the state.) But it's still not a good idea to get buddy-buddy with a feral hog.
Apparently, this has been such a problem historically that the state government made a video explaining why feral hogs are bad.
The second part of the video starts with a bold titles on the screen
that read: "Feral hogs pose a disease threat to humans, pets, wildlife and
farm animals in Missouri." It then goes on to eerily foretell 30
maladies these hogs possess humans need to be wary of. Forget swine
flu -- a good portion of these beasts have freakin' rabies!
The
closest known feral hog population is in Henry County, which borders
Cass County to the southeast. In the unfortunate case that you do
find yourself nose-to-snout with a hog, the state recommends that you climb
the nearest tree. "If the pig charges, sidestep quickly, taking care to
avoid the swing of its tusks and promptly find a tree to scamper up."
Also if you have a gun and see a feral pig, the state asks that you "shoot them on sight."
As
to whether you should be worried about swine flu in the first place, an
enterprising company has already set up a Web site called ShouldIBeWorriedAboutSwineFlu.com As of today, the answer is a resounding "NO!"
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Pseudorabies is not RABIES! It's not fatal to people. They don't get sick from it. However it is fatal to dogs. IT's not rampant in the feral hogs..it's here and there. I was getting into hog hunting in TX then moved to KS. Now I am more than interested in helping ranchers/farmers with their feral hog problems in KS and MO. Feel free to contact me at: TedH71@yahoo.com Thank you.
Hi Names Randy Kelley from Arkansas--I am a Registered Hog Trap Manufacturer--I am in 7 States and 24 Wildlife districts I have a super bad trap---would like to contact someone---my web site is www.thehawgstopper.com thanks 870-574-1824--Cell# 870-807-1348
Years ago, I camped out on Catalina Island in CA as part of a conservation assignment through the volunteer organization at my junior college I attended that year. They have two things they warned us about when it came to camping on the island: the roaming buffalo, and the wild boars. The buffalo were not likely to come into our camping area, but the boars might, and they told us the same thing about getting into a tree if they came after us.
Scared me so bad, I had to get drunk on boxed wine with my conservationist friends in order to sleep ok in the tent that night...
We didn't see any boar that weekend, but we did see a lot of buffalo up close and personal-like. Those suckers are BIG.
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