The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread
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Few days old Blomke is an escape artist. She got out of the stall with her mom and got into the stall with a pregnant mare.
Already a troublemaker.
Already a troublemaker.
Pretty much everywhere those things are wild, they need to be wiped out. They're an ecological menace.
Or you know, maybe we a way to deal with them that doesn't involve killing them.
Are they native or an introduced species?
In the case of most of the southern US and Australia, they are descended from farm animals that escaped, bred like rabbits and now threaten other species of plant and animal. The cassowary in particular is becoming more and more endangered because those things eat all the plants they normally live off of. There's literally millions of them down under.
So in this case, no matter how cute the wild piglets are, no other options than killing the lot unless we want to see a great many native species disappear.
Bullshit, there's always another option beyond killing if people just take the time to consider things and don't just instantly jump to I don't like it, so it must die.
They say the same thing about mustangs, but things like fertility control have been scientifically proven to work as an alternative to culls or roundups. I'm not sure how well something like that would work with the pigs, but it does prove that there can be solutions beyond just killing.
Although in the case of mustangs the things people are saying have been scientifically proven to be complete bullshit, made up by greedy ranchers and people like that just to have an excuse to get rid of them. I know the pigs are a bit more of a real problem.
Although in the case of mustangs the things people are saying have been scientifically proven to be complete bullshit, made up by greedy ranchers and people like that just to have an excuse to get rid of them. I know the pigs are a bit more of a real problem.
I wouldn't normally advocate the scorched earth strategy, but that one sow in the .gif had twelve little piggies. Multiply that by even a fraction of the estimated 6 million feral pigs in the US alone per year.
Australia could have anywhere from 3 - 25 million, though I'm not sure they had native boars for them to interbreed with.
OK there are a lot of them, but I will never believe that just wiping them out is the only possible solution. Like I said before, people are too quick to just immediately jump to just kill them, but I'm sure if you look hard enough there are examples of similar situations where they have found alternatives that work.
I already mentioned the PZP program they're using on the Salt River Horses here in AZ, and I'm sure if you look around you can find other examples of non-lethal solutions.
I have to admit, the mustang situation has also made me hesitant to believe similar claims being made about other animals. If people lie in one similar situation, how can we trust that they're not lying in another one?
There are people out there saying the same basic things about the mustangs you're saying about pigs and it has been reportedly proven to all be bullshit.
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We have those in the US too. It's the generations of wild "farm type" pigs and the hybrids of the two that are the issue.
Again, IDK if Australia had wild boars or not to begin with for the pigs to breed with.
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Saving an elephant from a well.
On the wild boars, it is a problem in a lot of parts of Germany, and has been for years. And during that same time, hunters, farmers, politicians and the media have been fearmongering about wolves, who have started showing up again in Germany in the past decade, and want the threshold for allowing to shoot wolves to be lowered or taken out completely. They have spread a lot of misinformation and even resurrected old myths about how supposedly dangerous wolves are to humans, and farmers lament how they attack their livestock (but don't mention how they themselves cut corners on protective fences and guard dogs).
And wolves, if they were allowed to actually properly be repopulating Germany, would be the best, the natural way of regulating the populations of animals like the wild boars.
And wolves, if they were allowed to actually properly be repopulating Germany, would be the best, the natural way of regulating the populations of animals like the wild boars.