OK Man Arrested For Importing Diseased Wild Hogs
03-27-2015, 11:47 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
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OK Man Arrested For Importing Diseased Wild Hogs
An OK man wanted to release wild hogs on his SE OK property. He went to TX and acquired 117 wild hogs. Some good citizen reported the guy and he was arrested in OK. Many of the hogs were diseased.
This is the kind of ignorance we are up against here in OK.
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/he...e15417551.html
This is the kind of ignorance we are up against here in OK.
According to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, more than half of the swine tested positive for pseudorabies, which can be fatal to several different domestic animals and livestock. Some of the other swine tested positive for brucellosis, which can affect livestock and humans.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/he...#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/he...#storylink=cpy
03-27-2015, 01:38 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,695
Good citizen!! The guy was, to put it bluntly, a complete IDIOT! Those 117 hogs would have decimated that property in a matter of days. Not to mention the reproduction rate they have, they would have been in the 500 range in a years time. I'm glad he got arrested and If I was the state I would research to find a way to sue the guy!
03-27-2015, 01:48 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: south eastern PA
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Actually, the op said a good citizen reported the idiot, not that the guy who imported the hogs was a good citizen. There should be a severe penalty for that kind of stupidity. Hogs were released in many places that didn't have them because some nitwits decided it would be nice to be able to hunt them. I see ignorant hunters on website all the time lamenting they wish they had hogs in their state, those are the kind of people who release them.
