Thread: OK I almost shit myself

I don't think wild pigs stalk people or attack without provocation, but you need to be aware of not cornering them, or having them think they are cornered. I have been charged by dogged wild pigs several times, but the scariest situation I have been in was with a semi-domestic sow. We were ringing the noses of her weaners in the woolshed - the sow was literally climbing the gate to try and get at us.
I think it was in one of Phillip Holden's books where a hunter was resting by a log and had piglets running around him and over his legs, he picked one up and stood up, it started squealing, next thing the sow had him by the leg shaking him, he threw the sucker away and the sow departed, but it took a lot of stitches to put his calf muscle back in place.