Kentucky Bans Hog Hunting

[puma guy]

In their infinite and in my opinion flawed logic, the DNR and legislators have banned the hunting of hogs to "make them easier to trap".

https://www.winchestersun.com/2024/05/1 ... r-advance/

[Paladin]

Sounds like clownworld:

wildlife experts are encouraging landowners to instead contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to have the animals removed

Yeah, this sounds unlikely, impractical, and expensive

[Rafe]

Sounds like clownworld:

wildlife experts are encouraging landowners to instead contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to have the animals removed

Yeah, this sounds unlikely, impractical, and expensive

Also begs the question... Removed to where, exactly? Does Kentucky have some 200,000-acre dedicated feral hog preserve with an impenetrable fence around it? And, what, they have game wardens who bring in feed and take care of the animals? I don't think so.

Any state that decides to put feral hogs on some sort of protected species list is going to be literally overrun in a decade. The critters have a short gestation period of about 115 days, and sows are sexually mature at 6-8 months of age and average 4-6 piglets per litter. Under favorable conditions I think that generally equates to two litters per year or a little longer.

So two hogs have 6 piglets. Seven months later the sow and 3 female piglets (assuming half the litter is female) have 24 new arrivals, and the total is up to 32 including the original parents. We keep that up and 7 months after that we can have a grand total of 128 hogs, 126 added to the population in just 14 months.

If you started with a sounder that had 10 females instead of just one, in 14 months you could have 1,260 new hogs rooting around.

"Wildlife experts are encouraging landowners to instead contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to have the animals removed."

Yeah. Get back to me on that. The new movie Planet of the Pigs will be in theaters near you in 2026.

[Paladin]

The new movie Planet of the Pigs will be in theaters near you in 2026.

[RPBrown]

The new movie Planet of the Pigs will be in theaters near you in 2026.

Dems will give them voters registration and state ID cards.

[Rafe]

The new movie Planet of the Pigs will be in theaters near you in 2026.

Dems will give them voters registration and state ID cards.

And don't forget Medicaid and free public education for the rapidly growing number of young ones! The good news on that last front is school lunches shouldn't be problematic: they'll eat almost anything.

[gamboolman]

Babylon Bee?
If not then:

[puma guy]

Babylon Bee?
If not then:

Nope! It's not Babylon Bee, See the link attached to the OP. Tennessee stopped hog hunting on public land in 2011 and put other restrictions on hunting them. I haven't searched to see how that worked out, but I can only assume it's disastrous for everyone but the pigs.