Why did the kill this big hog?

Question

That hog did nothing wrong, he just was. And then they killed him, and this boy is regretful: "It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Why anything big has to be killed at all? They could preserve that hog, and keep him like a local curiosity. It was so big! This boy is a murderer!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052600461.html

So what? That hog was RUNNING AWAY from them, not attacking them.
Then, shark can be potentially dangerous, and snakes, and wolves,
so what, kill them all? Was this particular hog dangerous? He lived
up to this age and weight without anybody complaining about him!

Where these people hungry? Did this hog came out of his wood and attacked their town, or them? Or he was just "potentially dangerous", so they went into HIS wood, found him where he was HIDING from them, and started running after him with an intent to kill for fun! It shows that people are potentially dangerous, too, so should we start killing them?

Answer 1

gun hoe redneck idiots they have done it to gaint black bears dear etc.

Answer 2

"People have died from feral hog attacks,". "It's not extremely common, but the potential is there. You've got a wild animal that weighs up to 400 pounds, has sharp teeth and isn't afraid to attack." At least one dog has been attacked and nearly killed by wild swine at the center. At the same time, the feral hogs compete with other animals for available food and have damaged ecosystems by their rooting and wallowing, he said.

Feral hogs can't be transported from one area to another because of the threat of spreading livestock disease such as swine brucellosis and pseudorabies, according to the Texas Animal Health Commission.

Feral hogs, which are a mix of domestic hogs and the more aggressive Russian boars, typically are dark and furry and have longer tusks than domestic hogs. They are unprotected, non-game animals
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But they are prolific breeders, destroy the landscape and can be a danger to people and other animals, said John Davis, one of two Texas Parks and Wildlife urban biologists who serve the Fort Worth/Dallas region.

These hogs can begin breeding by the time they are 6 months old and in a "good" year can bear 20-24 piglets. As of 1991, there were an estimated 1 million feral hogs - who have a lifespan of about 8 years.

Answer 3

You have to look at and accept the other side of the package. There are those in society that do hunt. I stopped hunting after I came home from 'Nam. I got tired of killing. I do own several guns for self protection but have never fired them in anger or for pleasure. My son hunts with a bow and actually stalks his prey.

I don't agree with what this boy did either. He hunted out of a fenced area that probably knew where that hog was at all times, he had, admittedly, three hunters, one a guide, with high powered rifles behind him. So, what was his big trophy? Maybe he wasn't a murder but, a trophy hunter he was not.
Give that boy a bow, one arrow and one shot, let him hunt that hog down, maybe a knife.

I remember being dropped into enemy territory, at night, with a knife. We had a bounty on our heads. We were there, behind enemy lines, for almost six weeks, we ate what we caught. I had dysentery after that one from the water.
That was hunting. We were the hunted, I don't know how many times we were almost caught, we didn't sleep or, very little, there were six of us. In the end, we went different ways for different purposes, I don't know what happen to the other three to this day.

Answer 4

Yeah he tracked it down too after he shot it several time he kept following it then got a 50 cal piston from his dad tracked it down and shot it again,takes a real big person to shoot a defenseless animal ,its not even like a wild boar that size has good meat on it they ground it into sausage.

Answer 5

i heard an interview on npr with the redneck taxidermist that was working on this thing. omg it was hysterical, the guy kept answering with one/two word responses and the interviewer tried to make a couple jokes but they went right over his head.

Answer 6

I agree with you. My father was a hunter, and I always felt it was unnecessary.

Answer 7

that's the hunting instinct in all men.