San Jose's pig-shooting season made permanent

[KamaAina]

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27408250/san-joses-pig-shooting-season-made-permanent

Pigs that continue to go hog wild ripping up prized lawns throughout San Jose will have to contend with not just mountain lions and other predatory animals but also humans who have been cleared to shoot and kill them.

The San Jose City Council on Tuesday night voted 7-3 to establish a permanent law that allows licensed trappers to catch and shoot boars.

A trial law clearing the way for pig-killing, passed in late 2013, was set to expire next week. But officials continue to field complaints about the boars, some of which weigh hundreds of pounds, rummaging through fairways, business landscaping and residential yards looking for food. Locals used the new law to kill 14 pigs, which barely made a dent in the population of the rapidly-breeding hogs, though supporters contend that the traps apparently scared off other pigs....

As they did when the temporary law was approved, officials are reminding residents that the change does not mean people can simply go out with guns blazing looking to fire away at the porkers. Only caged animals can be shot, and only people with a state permit can do the killing.

Ah, San Jose, the bacon capital of America!

[NV Whino]

1. We have wild pigs in the western Mayacamas

Man those things are destructive.

So far on the eastern side of the valley we have only bears, cougars, coyotes, foxes, deer, turkeys and various kinds of destructive woodpeckers. Oh, and a few rattlesnakes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Have the pig problem in our area, too.

Local hogs that got loose and went feral.
Newspaper reported up to 19 killed one weekend. But no caging first, hunters around here ..hunt...them.
Those porkers have LOTS of natural habitat to run around in, we are quite rural.

[KamaAina]

3. On O'ahu, too.

Trouble is, about 80% of the pua'a have brucellosis. So no boar bacon for them.