Thread: Bloody Poachers!

Originally Posted by Savage1

You realize releasing pigs is an offence? Do you realize the damage they do? And then you go and whinge about 1080.

Where have you been. Check out Pigs being released on Molesworth Station by DOC and Animal Health Board.

Pigs are no more prone to spreading TB than Sheep.
Anyway this subject was covered very well in Rushy's thread in
OFF TOPIC.. Page three NZ HERALD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE...Time Bomb Pigs released in Southland.

I just havnt the time to complete you education.

While you are scratching around Savage find me the appropriate article where it shows it is an offence to buy a pig and put it on your farm.

Originally Posted by Scribe

Where have you been. Check out Pigs being released on Molesworth Station by DOC and Animal Health Board.

Pigs are no more prone to spreading TB than Sheep.
Anyway this subject was covered very well in Rushy's thread in
OFF TOPIC.. Page three NZ HERALD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE...Time Bomb Pigs released in Southland.

I just havnt the time to complete you education.

While you are scratching around Savage find me the appropriate article where it shows it is an offence to buy a pig and put it on your farm.

Wild Animal Control Act 1977 Section 11 Subsection 1.

Originally Posted by Savage1

Wild Animal Control Act 1977 Section 11 Subsection 1.

Ehhh.. Come again, where does this act say that I cant buy a pig from down the road and put it on my farm.

And do DOC/AHB have special dispensation to release wild pigs and are they some sort of special pig that doesnt root...eat native plants or make a mess. ???.

Originally Posted by Scribe

Ehhh.. Come again, where does this act say that I cant buy a pig from down the road and put it on my farm.

And do DOC/AHB have special dispensation to release wild pigs???.

Read the definition of a wild animal.

Originally Posted by Savage1

Read the definition of a wild animal.

Read the deffinition of pig and farm.

Originally Posted by Scribe

Read the deffinition of pig and farm.

So you are saying you had your place fenced so the pigs could not escape? So the person who you mentioned had gotten your pig had come onto your place to get it? Poaching?

Originally Posted by Savage1

So you are saying you had your place fenced so the pigs could not escape? So the person who you mentioned had gotten your pig had come onto your place to get it? Poaching?

I already told you that I dont live there any more so the locals including a couple of my neighbours hunt there when it suits them. The place was deer fenced and had an electric wire around the bottom of the fence. Inside the block were deer (Reds', Sambar probably and rusa possibly). At that time when the tanker driver got the pig it was just off the road on the river flats not constrained by my fence at all . It had possibly escaped, possibly been caught and turned lose out side the fence...Possibly one of the locals had taken it to his place and it got away and returned home or someone had left the gate open... 'savage'.... I dont know where the pig had been and it was dead so I couldnt ask it.
The block has now been split up and sold and I have retained two blocks so though the boundary is deer fenced there are now three accesses to the block so even if I wanted to control who went on the block I probably would only make grief for myself.

Anyway I like to see people enjoying themselves hunting and if a pig is silly enough to show himself to the locals its, sorry pig.