OK Man Charged With Releasing Feral Hogs

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An Oklahoma man has been charged with transporting diseased feral hogs, animal cruelty and with releasing hogs into the wild.

Despite the fact that much of OK is over run with feral hogs, people continue to release hogs into the wild.

Glad this guy was caught.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man suspected of trying to build a hunting ground by transporting and releasing feral hogs, which happened to carry a highly infectious viral disease, will be in court this week to face criminal charges, officials said on Monday.

Wesley Kirton, 39, faces a criminal hearing on Friday in Beaver County Court on charges including the illegal transport and handling of feral swine, animal cruelty and releasing feral swine into the wild, prosecutors said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-man-face-criminal-charges-hauling-diseased-feral-213428250.html
 
What a tool... If Reuters is correct.

Transporting them to an otherwise hog free area in order to train his "about 40..." Pit Bulls. And supposedly laced with Pseudorabies to boot.

Todd.
 
Talk about opening Pandora's Box. Some people don't just don't get how fast they multiply and how much destruction comes with them.
 
You gotta give him credit, he has stupid and irresponsible covered pretty well. 40 Pitt Bulls?
One is too many in my book.
 
We had a similar incident here in Wisconsin a few years back. A guy went down south and bought a horse trailer full of feral hogs from a trapper, then brought them back and released them on public land so he and his buddies could hunt them. The state had receipts from him purchasing the hogs, receipts for gas down and back, pictures of him and his friends with some of the dead hogs on land that was identified as being public land with no known hog populations, but had to drop the charges because they could not prove he intentionally released them.......:confused:
 
Sheesh. While it's fun to go whack some piggies where they already infest a place, it's just bad karma to infest another area with them.

I think some people only see the limited view of a hunting opportunity while ignoring the catastrophic effect they have on the environment.

Here in Ohio, we have very few hogs. And we'd like to keep it that way. DNR has issued a "shoot on sight" order to hunters. 365 day season, 24 hours a day. They also do not classify them as a game animal so you won't get busted for popping one without a license. But the catch is that you DO need the license to be out hunting anything else.
 
We don't have any here either, and hope to keep it that way.

But twice in the last few years some fool has stocked them in the public hunting area west of Clinton Federal lake.

Kansas F&G swooped in with a helicopter and door gunners and wiped them out both times.

They would like to catch whoever is doing it, as aerial eradication gets pretty expensive real fast!

rc
 
rcmodel said:
We don't have any here either, and hope to keep it that way.

But twice in the last few years some fool has stocked them in the public hunting area west of Clinton Federal lake.

Kansas F&G swooped in with a helicopter and door gunners and wiped them out both times.

They would like to catch whoever is doing it, as aerial eradication gets pretty expensive real fast!

rc
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Maybe it's the door gunner:

"Hey Zeke, we're goin' huntin' again!"
 
That's how we got them around here, a distant family member of mine that hog hunted brought and released about 3 dozen in 2 years, according to him. He has since passed and most people within 5 miles of his house have a hog problem that I'm sure will continue to grow.

When he brought them in it wasn't illegal, not that he would have cared. He did (supposedly) stop when local farmers found out what he was doing and began to threaten to bring them back to him via his front door, but it was to late the damage was done.

It should be a seriously heavy fine for releasing them alive, a few years of jail time for repeat offenders wouldn't bother me one bit.
 
DeepSouth said:
That's how we got them around here, a distant family member of mine that hog hunted brought and released about 3 dozen in 2 years, according to him. He has since passed and most people within 5 miles of his house have a hog problem that I'm sure will continue to grow.

When he brought them in it wasn't illegal, not that he would have cared. He did (supposedly) stop when local farmers found out what he was doing and began to threaten to bring them back to him via his front door, but it was to late the damage was done.

It should be a seriously heavy fine for releasing them alive, a few years of jail time for repeat offenders wouldn't bother me one bit.
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My wife and I were talking about it today and both agree that it should be penalized to a degree which might appear to exceed the crime.

It's such an egregious attack on an environment and the populace that I'd be all for asset seizure and jail on the first offense.

Todd.
 
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Sheesh. While it's fun to go whack some piggies where they already infest a place, it's just bad karma to infest another area with them.

I think some people only see the limited view of a hunting opportunity while ignoring the catastrophic effect they have on the environment.

Here in Ohio, we have very few hogs. And we'd like to keep it that way. DNR has issued a "shoot on sight" order to hunters. 365 day season, 24 hours a day. They also do not classify them as a game animal so you won't get busted for popping one without a license. But the catch is that you DO need the license to be out hunting anything else.
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Let's keep it simple psychologically. This idiot is selfish to such a fault it can't be described by me and either stupid or ignorant to the pending damage that would be done by the hogs. It really is that simple. He wants to do what he wants to do and to hell with the consequences. This guy's balls need to be nailed to the wall for his reckless actions.
 
I hunt a couple of different areas in OK that have large populations of wild or feral hogs. We often see them while hunting deer, turkey and dove where we hunt. They are filthy animals by nature and, can really tear-up otherwise pristine hunting areas. Others may disagree, but they are the only animal I hunt that I don't bother harvesting meat. The land owner where we hunt is happy to have us feed the coyotes.
 
Hadn't heard about that . . . we've got them just east of OKC and they're moving in all over. My parents are in Seminole County and those things have started taking over where I hunt.
 
The state of OK has only recently started to enforce the Swine Control Act.

1. To sum up the situation here in OK: The problem is so called hog "hunting ranches", hog trappers and hog doggers. Hog doggers and hog trappers catch hogs and sell them. i sometimes see wild hogs in trailers on I-35 going south to live hog buyers in the Dallas area. They pay up to about 50 cents per pound for live feral hogs. Interstate transportation of feral hogs requires a federal permit. i'll bet none of these guys have the required federal permit.

2. i'm a hog trapper and hunter. We trap 150-200 hogs annually and i hunt and kill another 20-30 using a muzzleloader: Until recently we gave all our hogs to folks who need the meat, now some are left for the buzzards. About one year ago hogs started disappering from our traps. Yep, the hogs doggers are stealing hogs from our traps. The game warden is unresponsive.

3. The state of OK allows the so called "hog hunting ranches" to buy live feral hogs. They also buy domestic hogs at stock sales. Those "ranches" are required to have "hog proof fences" but they are seldom inspected. IME: A "hog proof" fence is an oxymoron.

4. Unlike the situation in TX, we are not allowed to hunt hogs at night. A rancher whose crops are being destroyed by hogs can get a permit from the game warden to hunt hogs at night. All my property is hunting land.

5. The Sportsman's Center at Ft. Sill is to be commended for their efforts to control feral hogs. Previously West Range and Quanah Parker Range were overrun with hogs. A program of trapping and shooting hogs from helos have made hogs scarce there. The whitetail deer have rebounded very nicely.

6. Without the current prolonged drought the hog situation here in OK would be much worse than it presently is.

Two of my hunting properties are overrun with wild hogs: So is our deer lease. Recently i have been shooting hogs at our lease. Most are shot in the deep creek channel or on the opposite bank where retrieval is nearly impossible, they are left where they fall.
 
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Just this year we have started seeing large feral hogs on my in-laws land. (NE OK) We have also seen a drop overall in deer count as well. I haven't seen any while hunting, they seem to only be moving at night. But when you see the game camera pictures of these beasts it is pretty shocking. 15-20 large hogs (300-400) lbs all chowing down on the corn. We stopped putting corn out this year because of it.
 
My advice is worth what you paid for it. This guy is narcissistic and won't learn easily even from long term confinement. He should get many years in prison and asset seizure. More simply put, to him anything he does is OK, because HE did it.
 
Packy said:
My advice is worth what you paid for it. This guy is narcissistic and won't learn easily even from long term confinement. He should get many years in prison and asset seizure. More simply put, to him anything he does is OK, because HE did it.
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After introducing PRV into an area true justice would be to hand him over to the hog producers in the area with a wink and a shovel.
 
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