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Wild boars with razor-sharp tusks invade upstate New York
New York Times via MSNBC ^
| 3-12-12
| LISA W. FODERARO
Posted on 03/12/2012 4:51:11 PM PDT by dynachrome
PERU, N.Y. — They roam by night, picking cornstalks clean, making off with apple crops. They have almost no natural predators, but they have razor-sharp tusks and a seemingly bottomless appetite for plants and animals. Their population can triple in one year.
They are feral pigs, and while they have long plagued parts of the Southern and Western United States, now they have become a problem in the peaceful Champlain Valley of New York, an agricultural heartland on the edge of the Adirondacks.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boars; chupacabra; newyork; wildboar; wildboars
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Time to put a little pork on the table
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/12/2012 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: dynachrome
Tomorrow’s Headline —
“Bloomberg Calls For Ban On Razor-Sharp Tusks”
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posted on
03/12/2012 4:53:22 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: dynachrome
They’re called “democrats”, thank you. Get GOREd, liberals!
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posted on
03/12/2012 4:56:57 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
To: dynachrome
Nope- all we got here is fishers, racoons, possums n squirrels. I think all the coydogs done finished all the porkers off up here.
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posted on
03/12/2012 4:58:14 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
(No Pork ?//??? ? ?? ``?? Who knew?)
To: dynachrome
Holy Javelina Batman...they’re coming toward Gotham!
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:00:48 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: stephenjohnbanker
They should taste pretty good since they are feasting on apples and other goodies.
Gotta have a lisence to shoot ‘em on your own land I guess. New York sux for gun laws.
“advises those with small game licenses to “shoot and keep feral swine at any time and in any number.”
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:02:16 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: bunkerhill7
You have some pretty feisty coyotes, then. The javelinas are all over Texas, coyotes or not.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:04:34 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: dynachrome
They heard liberals don’t own guns.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:04:44 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: dynachrome
To: gorush
“they’re coming toward Gotham!”
The crackheads would take care of ‘em!
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:07:28 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: dynachrome
Put a bounty on them and they’ll be gone before you know it.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:08:02 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: dynachrome
I’ve heard javelinas can be pretty fiesty. Here in Florida the coyotes don’t much bother the wild hogs. The panthers will take them at will but not much else does.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:08:58 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: dynachrome
Problem is, some are diseased......not good for ribs: )
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:09:56 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: tiki
They’ve tried that in some southern states, as well as no bag-limits for hunters. It still hasn’t been enough.
To: stephenjohnbanker
I’m told that they are pretty lean.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:12:10 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: dynachrome
Snow get pretty deep up there, how do they make a living, wear mink.
To: dynachrome
Democrat politicians looking for easy money..............
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:13:10 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
To: dynachrome
Great area for apple picking...this should make it a little more interesting this fall...
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:13:54 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: dynachrome
We just thought they were vacationing Manhattanites.
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:14:04 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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