Boar Piglet Learning To Bark
More Boar News
ABC News May 2009 A family in southwestern Germany found an orphaned piglet, starving and near death. They took it home and nursed it back to health. They named him “Manni”.
The family has a resident Jack Russel terrier. The terrier and the pig soon became best friends sharing food, beds and play times. Manni wags his tail like a dog. He is now also learning to bark like a dog, say his adoptive parents. The Jack Russel now likes to eat pig food.
The family of retired firefighter Dahlhaus plans to keep Manni as a pet. If he becomes too big and unruly, they will place him in a wildlife park for his retirement years.
Watch a video of the happy family here
Lethal Boar Hunt
Two German hunters were shot by fellow hunters in one weekend.
According to police, about 50 hunters were hunting boar in a well organized battue when one of the hunters crouched down in anticipation of fleeing boar. Another hunter mistook him for a boar and shot him. Police are investigating how the victim could end up in the line of fire of a well organized hunting party.
A few hundred kilometers to the north in the German state of Hesse, another hunting party also shot one of their own.
This goes to prove that even extensive theoretical and practical hunter education and difficult examinations that include live fire on moving targets does not prevent carelessness and foolish behavior of hunters in the field. Boar hunting can be hazardous to a hunter's health. If the boar don't get you, your fellow hunters will. (The Local, May 26, 2009)
And in case you like to know how certain elements of society react to tragic hunting accidents, peruse the comments to this story.
Another Cemetery Boar
In Gothenburg, Sweden ( not Germany as falsely stated in the news report), a woman walked her dog in a local cemetery early in the morning. They came face to face with a large boar. And wisely ran away. No harm done during the encounter.
However, hunters who were called in to investigate found that two boar actually were in the cemetery. Later both were shot according to a report by Lethal, a website that specializes in reporting about lethal things and accidents.
Do deadly hunting accidents and other boar induced deaths mainly happen in Europe? Of course not. Far from true. I could easily compliment the above stories with an equal number of equally deadly hunting accidents and other wildlife induced deaths from across this country – excluding deaths from poisonous snakes.
PJJ
1 comments:
It truly is amazing how intelligent these wild hogs are PJJ.
Once a few years back a client killed a big old sow and no sooner than she was down, a little piglet about the size of an adult humans hand, jumped up from the brush and began to grunt for his mama.
Long story short, went and got him, brought him home and bottle fed him and he grew up into about 400lbs of Tusks and gentle personality.
I have pictures of him laying next my "Hog Dawgs" and sleeping with them at our house where he lived the first 2 years of his life!
"Oliver" named after Oliver Wendell Douglas from Green Acres, actually would try and mimic the dogs barks and would sit and lay down on command just as his adopted family .
I really had to let him go over at one of the ranches because I would sit and watch him react as his Wild, extended family would come by and visit him in his pen in the evenings after I had moved him there.
I know that he yearned to be with them so after 4 years of keeping him I sadly, had to let him go.
When we were out with some clients one day about a year later, an animal was wounded, so off the leash for the dogs, and the chase was on.
Got to the catch site and the wounded hog was down on its own. While we were sitting there with the dogs and client, another big boar wanders in with a bright yellow ear tag in its left ear, it was Oliver come to pay us a visit.
My two main dogs, Frankie and Baron were still off lead and did not even attempt to try and grab Oliver, they just stood there looking at each other and sniffing the air for about 3 minutes.
I tried to call him over but he had truly turned wild and would not come.
Bittersweet but nonetheless an emotional moment for me.
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