Feral Hogs knocking on the door.

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I'm starting to see some hog sign in the back yard (about 200 from the house. I've never had to deal with hogs this close before, I worry about my labs getting tangled up with them.

Here in Georgia it's open season on hogs so I'm wondering what the best course of action is. To actively hunt them or just dispatch them if I see them in the yard.
 
Depends on your schedule. We used to have a remote video camera sitting over a pile of bait and we popped regular and oversized varmints out of the window. Of course, baiting can draw a bigger crowd and make a bigger nuisance. You have to go out and deal with the carcass when the opportunity presents. We had enough cold storage to handle it on warm nights.

If you intend to keep the meat and your schedule is not friendly to shooting them as targets of opportunity, then intentionally hunting them at times when you can handle the carcass is the better approach. If you do't plan to keep the meat (just killing varmints), then the timing is less important. This can get smelly, so a plan can help here. We used to keep a few big trash cans of ashes to sprinkle over the carcasses and then bury them in moldy hay if a backhoe was not available to dig a proper hole for disposal.

Some nights, we would kill 3-5 of them suckers, dress 'em and get 'em cooling off to spread out the real work over the next few days.
 
I just moved to north Florida. I'd be happy to come up there and lend a hand, if all you need is someone to sit on the porch with a shotgun and an AR until they show up :evil:

Do you let the dogs run free?
 
I might see how they act in the next couple days/weeks. Rifle season for deer starts in a few days so I'll be watching the back field anyways. A game cam would be a worthwhile investment, at least to see when stuff is coming in.

My in-laws live next door and are retired so I'm all set for watchmen. Thank you though.

Yes, dogs run free within their underground fence boundaries. So I guess as long as they don't run through it into the woods they'll be fine.
 
Put dog collars on the hogs to keep them out of the fence:D

Kidding aside, I would start ASAP to put a hurt on them. They will only get worse and get worse fast! Plus, they are tasty. So, I would start to actively hunt if I were you.
 
I use a trap near the house at my dad's. Only set and bait it when their working in the area. Which has been about once a year so far. When I built it my dad said no one around was trapping any. I said the trap is not built right. Mine worked the first time without a hitch.

Hogs are very smart, any thing they step on not feeling normal they back out. Mine has no bottom. But you really have to secure them down, for they will test the strength. They get very pissed when they get caught.
 
Tannerite might be an option. Check this video on youtube
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I am going to get eaten alive for this I am sure but this is disgusting. It is one thing to dispatch a nuisance animal humanely. An even better thing to make use of it by using / donating the meat.

This seems cruel and a blood lust for killing above all else.

Kill them, don't torture and destroy them.
 
I am going to get eaten alive for this I am sure but this is disgusting. It is one thing to dispatch a nuisance animal humanely. An even better thing to make use of it by using / donating the meat.

This seems cruel and a blood lust for killing above all else.

Kill them, don't torture and destroy them.
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I'm thinkin' it was more painless and less traumatic that the ones whose throats I've cut with a knife. Just guessing. They were squealin' big time. i do eat my pigs, kill what I can eat and give some to neighbors. But, lots of folks just let 'em rot. Worms and buzzards gotta eat, too, ya know. Guy that had the dogs I used to go sticking with, at the time, had a pet lion he fed with the hogs he killed. Texas passed a law and he had to give up his pet lion.
 
Texas passed a law and he had to give up his pet lion.
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I am the volunteer coordinator and hands on animal care taker for a big cat rescue, mainly our 42 big cats are comprised of take-overs or turnovers from idiots that think a lion or a tiger in a cage the size of a parking spot in their garage is adequate and not cruel. Sadly there is a LARGE desire for egotistical morons to own exotic cats like lions, tigers, leopard and cougars as cats, most end of euthanized or shot but many end up neurotic and in serious need of care and rehabilitation by rescues like ours.

Congrats Texas for becoming part of the humane world...barely, there are more tigers in private owners hands in backyards of Texas then estimated in the wild.

I'm thinkin' it was more painless and less traumatic that the ones whose throats I've cut with a knife. Just guessing. They were squealin' big time.
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 Like I was saying about sadistic bloodlust. AGAIN, I am not opposed to hunting, but this...
 
I'm thinkin' it was more painless and less traumatic that the ones whose throats I've cut with a knife. Just guessing. They were squealin' big time.
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so your form of painful agonizing death is less terrible than their form....Congrats???
 
Guy that had the dogs I used to go sticking with, at the time, had a pet lion he fed with the hogs he killed
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And how many of these dogs got nailed by tusks of a wild boar???

had a pet lion he fed with the hogs he killed
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Big cats are EXTREMELY susceptible to brucellosis, leptospirosis and pseudorabies all which can kill them AND which are not uncommon in wild hog. Probably best he gave up his "pet" lion!!!
 
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