Pigs Gone Wild
Pigs are becoming more and more of a
problem every second. I’m not talking about cute little pink pigs; these are
big, mean, wild, feral hogs that are destroying property and land all across America.
They are even killing other wildlife and are an extreme danger to us by their
ruthless mean attitudes.
In the U.S alone there are an
estimated 4 million wild hogs that cause over 8 million dollars in damage each
year. These beasts are hurting our wildlife more than we even know. They mostly
live in bottom land where there’s lots of row crops and soft land. Farmers say
that plants such as corn, soy beans, and rice aren’t even getting a good chance
to grow. As soon as the farmers put new seed in the ground the hogs go out and
rut it up. That’s what they do they dig and rut up land looking for food and
for their own enjoyment. This is a danger for our wanted wildlife such as, deer
and turkey. They rely on grazing the reminisce of what the combine leaves
behind and if it never sprouts then there will be no reminisce. They already
have enough competition between their own species they don’t need an unwanted
more dominate species to compete with. Also they are a danger to our river
systems. These are very dirty animals that we are talking about. Where hogs are
present, river banks are becoming eroded and washing land away from the hogs
digging on the river banks. They have been spotted all the way from Texas to
California to Michigan and in New York. Experts say that there are many diseases
that they carry that are a danger to us one of them is swine brucellosis; this
is a bacteria that the pigs can carry. If a human gets this disease it can
cause swelling in the reproductive organs, high fever, organ problems, and even
joint pains.
The
solution is simple to this hog problem that the nation is going through. We as
a whole must kill off as many wild hogs as possible. If you look in this
picture above that is a wild hog that was out on the loose in Alabama. That is
a 1,051 pound hog killed by a 15 year old boy. Its things like this that need
to scare us. What if that boy had been walking out to his deer stand one
morning in the dark and that hog saw him? Let’s just say that boy would not
have won. Now yes that is a very large hog, most wild hogs are between 200 and
300 pounds but if there’s one that big I’m sure there’s more out there, maybe a
few of them even bigger than that one. We all have to have the same mentality as this
young man did and elimant all wild hogs before all whttp://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/07/oink-feral-pigs-growing-problem/
