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Also, when it comes to feral animals...I don't understand certian things.

In Ocala Florida, for example, there are large numbers of feral monkeys that some idiot let loose decades ago, and they have reproduced very successfully.

Now here's the kicker: 40% or so of these monkeys are infected with herpes B...and please, no jokes from Beverly Hills Cop about "herpes simplex 10", because this disease is 80% fatal to people who contract it, and there is no cure and no vaccine.

The monkees are asymptomatic carriers that don't get sick from it.

I like animals, but these monkees are not even protected or endangered in their native environment...so I would kill every single animal on sight. I would even go so far as to organize a bounty for every one that's killed, and attract every hunter that wants to participate.

I'm not trying to sound bloodthirsty, but they carry a horrible disease.

People tolerate them because they're cute.
count me in I can't stand monkeys
 
No.

I've been a strict vegetarian on and off for most of my life.

I'm not anti-hunting, though. We've eliminated bears, jaguars, wolves, mountain lions, etc. from most of their historic range, so we have to keep the deer in check...otherwise we have problems with disease, starvation, and overpopulation.

Also, a study confirms that there a fewer automobile accidents (some killing people) when deer are hunted responsibly.

I do hunt with a camera, so I keep my stalking and tracking skills up.
 
No.

I've been a strict vegetarian on and off for most of my life.

I'm not anti-hunting, though. We've eliminated bears, jaguars, wolves, mountain lions, etc. from most of their historic range, so we have to keep the deer in check...otherwise we have problems with disease, starvation, and overpopulation.

Also, a study confirms that there a fewer automobile accidents (some killing people) when deer are hunted responsibly.

I do hunt with a camera, so I keep my stalking and tracking skills up.
if the SHTF you will have to change your ways
 
Kevin, do you hunt and fish on a regular basis?

I don't know what happen but the rest of my sentence got lost, anyway, the rest of it.

The same issue with wildlife in a pre-shtf is going to be the same in a post-shtf, fresh water fish poses a greater risk today and certainly in post-shtf than wild meat, river fish such as catfish, salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, kokanee etc... may pose a greater risk to human health than wild meat post-shtf given many rivers have communities along the shore line. There will be greater risk post-shtf but that's with everything not just food, just learn what to look for. Observation, visual, sense of smell (providing you have good olfaction) and feel will limit exposure to the dangers.
 
Thank you.

I'm not a vegetarian now, but I was until the last hurricane.

I will certianly have to adapt post SHTF. I practice my marksmanship on a regular basis, and I have several Havahart traps in storage.

I also know how to make snares, but I won't use them in Florida because of the tropical heat...and dead animals go bad very quickly.

I know where to find freshwater shellfish (which make great bait), and there are more squirrells than I can count.

And so on.
 
Im not near the Ocean but I remember meeting a Old Timer that lived on the North FL Atlantic coast that said . The surf will bring You 2 meals a day . Apply that to a little Hunter Gather and farming skills and post TOTWAWKI and You should be good . Although that will be a draw to the starving mass . Security will be a must .
 
Also, when it comes to feral animals...I don't understand certian things.

In Ocala Florida, for example, there are large numbers of feral monkeys that some idiot let loose decades ago, and they have reproduced very successfully.

Now here's the kicker: 40% or so of these monkeys are infected with herpes B...and please, no jokes from Beverly Hills Cop about "herpes simplex 10", because this disease is 80% fatal to people who contract it, and there is no cure and no vaccine.

The monkees are asymptomatic carriers that don't get sick from it.

I like animals, but these monkees are not even protected or endangered in their native environment...so I would kill every single animal on sight. I would even go so far as to organize a bounty for every one that's killed, and attract every hunter that wants to participate.

I'm not trying to sound bloodthirsty, but they carry a horrible disease.

People tolerate them because they're cute.
They need to go.
 
Talking about pigs. An acquaintance who lives about 3 miles from me has a visitor, a pot bellied pig that is staying at his house. He feeds it when it comes into the barn and it tries to hangout with the cattle but the cattle butt it away. Also about 3 miles in the other direction there was a pig that was hanging around a public fishing area, no one claimed it and somebody finally took it home. It was friendly and lonesome, people had been feeding it. Either pigs are escaping or people are dumping animals. I put my money on the latter. I even had something digging up my property out in the field a few years back, swear it was a pig, had several people look at the ground and they felt that is what it had to be. Sod does not roll itself up.
 
I'll bet you're right about people dumping their pets.

It's a shame, too, because pigs can be nice animals when they're brought up like pets, and they seem very intelligent and very social.

I've heard that people buy pet pigs that are, supposedly, a minature breed...and they turn out to be huge, so people dump them.

Poor animal.
 
I understand.

I must have had different experiences. I dated a girl in college who had a pet pig.

We would sit outside in her front yard, and this animal would rest his head on my lap. I used to take him for walks on a leash with his harness.

He was cute, and liked it whem people payed attention to him.

I don't know what breed he was...just that he was small (at least as far as pigs go).
 
When I get a pig that I'm raising to butcher is clip the canines at 10 month if a boar, they can be a dangerous animal around kids and adults, I keep the youngsters away from the pen unless an adult is with them, they are incredibly fast when attacking and have no qualms of turning ya into a meal, never know about them and perhaps the most unpredictable animal on the farm especially if hungry.
 
Either pigs are escaping or people are dumping animals.
Pigs have been escaping ever since Columbus brought them here (at Queen Isabella's insistence). All the wild hogs we have on our place in the Mississippi Delta are from escaped domestic pigs. People didn't fence them in, I can still remember a house a half mile from us that had yard pigs. Every once in a while a pig would get a wild hair and run away.
 
When I get a pig that I'm raising to butcher is clip the canines at 10 month if a boar, they can be a dangerous animal around kids and adults, I keep the youngsters away from the pen unless an adult is with them, they are incredibly fast when attacking and have no qualms of turning ya into a meal, never know about them and perhaps the most unpredictable animal on the farm especially if hungry.
When I get a pig that I'm raising to butcher is clip the canines at 10 month if a boar, they can be a dangerous animal around kids and adults, I keep the youngsters away from the pen unless an adult is with them, they are incredibly fast when attacking and have no qualms of turning ya into a meal, never know about them and perhaps the most unpredictable animal on the farm especially if hungry.
About 20 years ago there was a guy in the next county that had pigs on some scrap of property with an old trailer, etc. The authorities got involved when it was reported they were being starved to death, apparently he thought they could live on turkey bones and feathers, he told the authorities it was "an experiment". I guess while the cops were there a rabbit ran into the enclosure and all heck broke loose. Pigs chasing that rabbit to eat it. A cop said he never saw anything like it. So a hungry pig is indeed a dangerous critter.
 
About 20 years ago there was a guy in the next county that had pigs on some scrap of property with an old trailer, etc. The authorities got involved when it was reported they were being starved to death, apparently he thought they could live on turkey bones and feathers, he told the authorities it was "an experiment". I guess while the cops were there a rabbit ran into the enclosure and all heck broke loose. Pigs chasing that rabbit to eat it. A cop said he never saw anything like it. So a hungry pig is indeed a dangerous critter.

They have killed and attacked humans, farm hogs and wild even if not hungry a sow with piglets are extremely dangerous.
 
Someone mentioned pigs on the loose, it was an old practice in Appalachia to allow pigs to free roam and feed off mast. They notched their ears to identify them when they went to hunt them up. Might have read this in Foxfire.
 

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