As a Saskatchewanian, here’s a heads up of what’s really going on. Yes there are wild boar up here, mostly due to them being released by canned hunt farms that folded years ago. But they aren’t as bad as this professor guy is making them out to be. He’s well known for using scare tactics to try & drum up funding money. Anyone up here can hunt / shoot them without a licence year round and while you hear of some being taken it’s few and far between. If it was as bad as he wants you to believe there’d be more pics of guys showing off there kills up here or pics of some farmer totalling off his truck after hitting one, but there just isn’t. Pigloos & crazy stats are just his way of trying to drum up research cash.

Thank you for the voice of reason. I believe that.

Not saying the problem is as bad as the article says, but I know a few guys who have killed wild hogs in the wild in Sask.

I would say in my area of AR, the same thing holds true. I have lived in the middle of hog country for 25 years. We have had a ton of hogs in the past and some areas still have quite a few. I kept track of individual hogs for years. I saw very few wild sows that had two litters in one year. I saw very few litters of eight piglets that made it to 40 lbs - more litters of three or four that made it to four months old. I know of tons of hogs eaten by hunters and know of no one who got sick from eating them. I have had a lot of deer and a lot of hogs using the same feeder. Hogs do not run deer out of the area.

I have had hogs in my yard, I have killed them by the truck loads, I have made semi pets of free ranging wild hogs whose mother was killed and painted them orange during deer season.



I agree 100% that much propaganda is spread about hogs that greatly exaggerate the normal hog “things” - even where there are lots of hogs. They can be very destructive to property - especially ag property. But from a recreational property owner point of view - I would much rather have hogs than bears.

There’s breeding populations in Spurce Woods Provincial Park, but only one hanging around my area. It’ll take a deer hunter to shoot the thing, but they don’t pull the trigger because they’re thinking it’s a bear, or don’t want to ruin their morning hunt with a shot.
Here we got this “Squeal on Pigs” program which is government funded, but I’ve worked with the guy running it to see if we could get better tabs on this one in the St Labre area, and let’s just say that his tactics in the area just aren’t “sound”…….lol.

I’ll find this pig for 3…….but I’ll catch him and kill him for 10

A guy from ND went up into Canada to catch some hogs and tag and collar them to see if they were coming down into ND. I have no clue how many of them they ended up catching or what they figured out if anything. I know they caught some, I saw pictures of them.

Makes sense, no surprise there.