Not sure if I saw a coyote or a fox last night

[Darrell KSR]

Jazy, remember this wild hog? My nephew and "Leroy Brown" that he shot, nine years old. 247 pounds, even bigger than I am .

Casey with Leroy Brown.jpg

[blueboss]

I'm not sure the hogs have made it this far north, but keep knocking'em down every chance you get. I've heard although greasy if cleaned and prepped properly they can be tasty. All though I have personally never tried any.

[CitizenBBN]

Never eaten the wild boar, but if they can cook the fat out of groundhog and possum surely they can do it with boar.

I'm sure they'll get here, another invasive species that makes kudzu look like an annual hybrid.

[dan_bgblue]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1005100909.htm

[CitizenBBN]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1005100909.htm

This is in Chicago, and even talks about programs in some municipalities to capture them. didn't Chicago intentionally release them a year or so ago?

One reason humans flocked to cities was to get away from the risks associated with living near wild carnivores.

Does anyone else think that's absolute bunk? I am a reasonable student of American history and I never once read about people leaving the deep south to go to Chicago b/c of the wild game of Mississippi driving them out.

Loved how they mentioned Coyotes will kill the occasional cat or dog. Yeah, as in "if the occasion presents itself". They'll eat dogs and cats every chance they get.

Lastly there's this tidbit:

They will also eat bugs and deer fawn, another potential benefit because human encounters with deer can be deadly,

Only if you hit them going to fast with your car. I sure hope that's what they meant, but "death by deer" is not a common story here in a place that is so thick with deer you can hunt them with hammers. In a city I have to wonder if they meant cars, and in a city it's hard to imagine it being any kind of real risk given the far lower average speeds. Mess up your car, but not you.

Maybe the deer in Chicago are armed.

[suncat05]

Boar meat is very good. Maybe a tad greasy, but paper towels and such can take care of that. Tastes just like what it is, wild pork.
The only good coyote is a DEAD coyote!
My son was out walking our little dog last night, about 6:30 pm or so. He brought her back to the house and told me he had seen a huge snake, so I went out with my .38 special loaded with snakeshot. When I got to the place he told me he had seen it, sure enough, there it was. It was actually climbing a small boulder we have in that particular place, probably to rub against it to shed its skin.
It never got the chance. I shot it just behind the neck, about decapitating it. It was a cottonmouth, only about two feet long, but probably about 6 ot 7 inches wide. It may have eaten recently, but I don't know and don't care. It's dead, that's all that matters to me.
If it had bitten my son he'd be really sick right now and in the hospital, and if it had bitten my little dog she'd most likely have been dead within a few minutes.
And just like coyotes, the only good pit viper is a DEAD pit viper!