Dinner wandered onto my property yesterday!

RVTECH · Dec 21, 2023

I wonder how many pork steaks I could get outta these?

Alexx1401 · Dec 21, 2023

Are they tame? Sure someone must be looking for them if they just escaped. If whoever lost them is not careful they can end up starting a pack of wild ones tearing everything up all around them the way they breed.

arakboss · Dec 21, 2023

Alexx1401 said:
Are they tame? Sure someone must be looking for them if they just escaped. If whoever lost them is not careful they can end up starting a pack of wild ones tearing everything up all around them the way they breed.

They were probably looking for their flocks. That'll do pig, that'll do.

RVTECH · Dec 21, 2023

Alexx1401 said:
Are they tame? Sure someone must be looking for them if they just escaped.

Yep, they are a neighbors.

Actually as slow as they move if they keep this up they are going to wind up as cougar/coyote chit.

Alexx1401 · Dec 21, 2023

RVTECH said:
Yep, they are a neighbors.

Actually as slow as they move if they keep this up they are going to wind up as cougar/coyote chit.

Some big cat would enjoy hell out of that meal. Problem then would be they would come back for more later once they find out where the easy meal is.

Certaindeaf · Dec 21, 2023

Looks like an invasive species to me..

nehalemguy · Dec 21, 2023

Guy that I met in Alaska lives on a remote homestead on Lake Iliamna. Only access to his place is by boat or plane in the warmer months.

He bought two weaner pigs one spring and them put then on a small island about a half mile off shore and would boat out to the island to feed them. The idea of putting the pigs on the island was to keep them hidden from the many brown bears that roam the area.

Well, it didn't work. He was about two weeks from butchering when he went out one day to feed and found complete carnage on the island. Both pigs dead and partly eaten and a very happy brown bear napping off the buffet.

-E-

Alexx1401 · Dec 21, 2023

nehalemguy said:
Guy that I met in Alaska lives on a remote homestead on Lake Iliamna. Only access to his place is by boat or plane in the warmer months.

He bought two weaner pigs one spring and them put then on a small island about a half mile off shore and would boat out to the island to feed them. The idea of putting the pigs on the island was to keep them hidden from the many brown bears that roam the area.

Well, it didn't work. He was about two weeks from butchering when he went out one day to feed and found complete carnage on the island. Both pigs dead and partly eaten and a very happy brown bear napping off the buffet.

-E-

Bears have both very good sense of smell and very good ability to swim. No doubt as the smell of the critters was coming to shore and easier food was hard to find one bear set out nose in the air looking for the meal it found. Did he at least take the bear?