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Close Encounter With Javelina Leads to Lesson on Wildlife
KVOA ^ | 3/11 | Sean Mooney

Posted on 03/17/2015 3:30:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A big part of living in the southwest is the area's wildlife, but coexisting with Arizona's critters can be a little too "wild". Among them, many Tucsonans have close encounters with javelina.

Karen Lansdale, who lives in the Tucson Foothills, was out for her daily walk with her dog Sonny, when she crossed paths with two very large javelina.

"I noticed off in the distance two javelina," said Lansdale. "The next thing i knew they were bounding towards me."

Not knowing what else to do, Lansdale said she then ran. When the javelina got on each side of her, she reverted to the only defense she had left.

"I just started screaming murder, complete crazy," she said. "I couldn't believe it was coming out my mouth and it seemed like five minutes, but it was probably more like 45 seconds, and they retreated and off they went."

Lisa Bates is the founder of the Tucson Wildlife Center, she said the javelina or the peccary are not out wandering the desert looking for a fight.

"The javelina and the desert are very misunderstood, they're just like the domestic pigs," said Bates."They're very smart; smarter than dogs."

They also don't like dogs, more specifically coyotes, that often prey on their babies. That is usually the reason people find out what an angry javelina is capable of.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department agrees that screaming as well as any loud noise can persuade javelina to move on. Besides a contempt for dogs, they will protect their young to the death. Never feed them, and that includes never leaving your garbage cans where they can get to them.

Lisa Bates, who has committed her life to rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife, said we all share the desert and the javelina is just one of our incredible neighbors.

"They're just amazing animals, you see them fighting, you see them nurturing and you see them protecting."

Bates adds that anyone who encounters an orphaned or injured javelina, or any wild animal should call the Tucson Wildlife Center first, at (520) 290-9453, or go to their website at http://www.tucsonwildlife.com/.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: javelina
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To: ColdOne

That one’s almost big enough to think the same of you.


41 posted on 03/18/2015 5:03:26 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: altsehastiin

lol, YUM!


42 posted on 03/18/2015 5:12:26 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: goat granny

Have you read the book “Unintended Consequences”?

That how the protagonist got rid of some FBI corpses.

A must read book during the Clinton Admin...even moreso during the Obama years.


43 posted on 03/18/2015 5:37:09 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: jmcenanly

;)


44 posted on 03/18/2015 8:18:49 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: hattend
Criminal Minds had a program of a quadriplegic and his brother that killed people and fed them to their pigs...all they found (on the show) was the shoes and I read an article on that and it was based on a true story that happened in Canada...The brother that did the killing was mentally retarded...(on the show)
45 posted on 03/18/2015 12:33:13 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

There was a cold case that was solved by an informant. A group had killed two hunters and fed them to pigs. I think it was in Minnesota.


46 posted on 06/29/2015 1:20:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

there was also a case in Canada, I don’t remember how many they fed to the pigs, but it was a lot....Criminal Minds did a show on it a while back...my dad being an old farm boy, born in 1901 use to say if your drunk stay away from the pigs, they will eat you before morning...


47 posted on 06/30/2015 12:12:30 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: nickcarraway
I was hiking in the Organ Mtns, NM above WSMR. I had just rounded a switchback in the trail when I saw a whole herd of these things (around 25) coming up a steep gully straight at me. I'm from KY and I did not know what to expect so I picked up some baseball sized rocks and started chucking and took them by surprise. They turned around and went back down. I thanked God I had the high ground and I saw them first.

That place was lovely.


48 posted on 06/30/2015 1:23:56 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: goat granny

That happened to an old neighbor when I was a teen. He had no car so my mother would pick him once a week to take him grocery shopping. One day she pulled into the drive to honk the horn,as usual, and wait for him to shuffle out the door. This day, there was no appearance by him. She came home, got the spare key and dad and I went along. Back door was open, but no Sam. As I went out the back door, I pointed out the slop bucket was missing. We went to the barn expecting to find him dead on floor of the barn. We found him, laying in the hog pen. Not a pretty sight.


49 posted on 06/30/2015 2:49:29 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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