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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:11:41 -0600, "SteveB"
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The state has a pretty active trapping effort to get the wild hogs
knocked down. They are pretty thick everywhere around here. My wife
used to see them when she was jogging in the scrub park at the end of
our street. We have had them in the neighborhood. They are not
particularly aggressive. They are basically domestic hogs that got
loose.
We have just about everything living in that buffer though. There are
deer, black bear and occasionally a panther out there. The state
really owns the whole shore line of the Estero Bay,back a mile or so
with the exception of Weeks, a few places that have docks poking out
through the mangroves and the back side of the developed barrier
islands.
That is a lot of square miles to hide in.

If you've ever been in pig habitat, it is downright spooky. They can
eviscerate you, and they take substantial firepower to kill. Usually
several shots, as one only ****es them off. They are smart, and know
their
territory like the back of their hoof. Becoming quite a problem, even in
neighborhoods like yours where not long ago if you brought up the subject,
you would lose friends and credibility.

Steve


My wife has been able to run these hogs off just by yelling at them
and once she hit one in the head with a thrown NexTel.
I guess enough people kill them for food around here that they are a
little jumpy. I worry more about the alligators. One took a shot at my
dog on Saturday down at the beach. I managed to scare him off.

Lived in Southern Louisiana for ten years. Fished, swam, and did commercial
diving around them. They always scared the **** out of me.

Steve