Feral pigs and feral dogs in Australia.

[John Gryphon]

While the pigs may not be in swarms spare a thought for the farmers trying to make a quid with both of these pest species.

I had a mate of mine (dog lover) suggested "that I had trapped enough dogs" and basically to stop trapping..he got the GAGF reply!

New group approach to wild dog control rolled out in Upper Hunter - ABC Rural - ABC News


North Queensland council finds winning formula in fight against feral pigs - ABC Rural - ABC News

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I would suspect that many of those against the controlling or shooting of feral dogs are not stock holders and have not seen or experienced the damage that dogs can do to stock, especially sheep!

 

[John Gryphon]

Summed up perfectly FB.

A lot of it is city driven and they dont want to see the gross pics of mutilated sheep etc.

City living? I see an article about keeping chickens for home grown eggs when in the city. Maybe they would get more eggs if they had HENS.

The dogs know which end has the best bits.

 

[ileso]

there is another problem with the feral dogs. its that they mix with the native dingo and its probably very likely that theres very few pure dingos left out there... shooth the fkrs

 

[shooternz]

You Aussies have all hasty stuff we have feral pigs, dogs and cats not on the same scale as you but bad enough,
We also have your damn possums and wallabys would you like them back?

 

[SamHuntVic]

You Aussies have all hasty stuff we have feral pigs, dogs and cats not on the same scale as you but bad enough,
We also have your damn possums and wallabys would you like them back?

Come off it mate, you blokes love the possums. You have a whole industry around them. What can be better than a possum doona or a pair of possum socks? Wallaby backstraps and tenderloins beat venison any day.
Grant.

 

[sharkey]

I am a landowner & farmer in one of the areas mentioned. Wild dogs, dingos & warrigals are insignificant compared to the stock loss from pig doggers & their risky behaviour. I dont get too upset if I miss the opportunity to shoot a warrigal, but If I miss a lost pig dog, I know I will have carnage to deal with.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I am a landowner & farmer in one of the areas mentioned. Wild dogs, dingos & warrigals are insignificant compared to the stock loss from pig doggers & their risky behaviour. I dont get too upset if I miss the opportunity to shoot a warrigal, but If I miss a lost pig dog, I know I will have carnage to deal with.

This sounds like a pretty fair old problem that we in the UK don't know much about. Would you care to take a few minutes to expand on the problem and what you mean by pig doggers.

 

[sharkey]

Pig dogging is a type of hunting where the dogs not only course the quarry they grab & pull it down. Hopefully the hunters can get to the animal quickly & dispatch it with a knife. If it sounds dark, thats because it is. Pig dogging also requires no club membership, no insurance & no licence. The culture supports illegal activity by its very nature as dogs have no way of understanding property boundaries & the owners cant ever be charged with trespass so long as they start at a property on which they have permission. When pig dogs become lost & kill stock, there is no law to punish the owners, unless they actually take the dead stock (theft). It's a serious problem in my part of the world ATM. Hunters have been supporting the rights of folks to persue this sport in the false assumption that "together we stand & divided we fall", the reality is that fairdinkum hunters are loosing access & being brought into disrepute by risky pig doggers. It is not the solution to pig problems that many try to make out. The dogs disperse pigs & make it much more difficult to poision them much more effectivly with the correct use of 1080. 1080 may be contentious, but it can be used wisely & with much more effect & much less risk & conflict than pig dogs.

 

[John Gryphon]

1080 may be contentious, but it can be used wisely & with much more effect & much less risk & conflict than pig dogs.

Try telling the Kiwis that.

 

[sharkey]

I said "wisely", not just tossed out the window of a fan.