Most hunters shoot the boars. They are unfit to eat, strong tough tainted meat. People here trap or catch the shoats and pen them up, feed them corn for a month or two. Then they butcher them, they will be are around 30 lbs. by then and sweet.
Can you remember the weight ?
I lived on Cosby,the Great Smoky Mountains were my front yard,them hogs were everywhere.the Park Rangers told me drop everyone you see.
We never weighed them. Maybe 150 lbs? Just a wild guess. After we got them processed we didn’t get as much meat as I thought we would. It was good though.
Problems for the Florida Panther are mostly habitat loss & car strikes. Plenty of food for them. They even eat coyotes.
Speaking of coyotes, big problem! Pets missing all over the area. Warning on the local news again last night.
We had that a couple of years ago. Also we're on an island so the coyotes at some point had to cross a very long, high bridge. Cats missing and some small dogs attacked & killed. I saw one cross the road in front of me early one morning in the dark. Seems to have run it's couse, maybe they ate the easy prey & moved on.
Interesting.
Where I live there are missing kitty posters tacked on the telephone poles all the time. Someone just posted a few recently of this yellow tabby cat that didn't come home. I doubt they'll ever see that cat again. I heard the coyotes howling in celebration just last night as I was out back listening to the fireworks going off for the new year. Here's a few shots of my local coyotes.
nice pictures ….to see them out in the open fields is amazing
