And we’re here to screw everything up.
So Texas is bracing for a hog apocalypse. Massive destruction of farms and private property from feral pigs in North Texas.
The government’s big idea? Poison the pigs with rat poison.
Great going geniuses. So what happens when people’s pets or non invasive wild animals eat the poison? What about the birds and creatures that eat the dead hogs? There shouldn’t be any side effects from trying to kill 2.5 million pigs with warfarin. Not in bureaucratic la-la land.
Better idea: $10 tags both in and out of state, and no limits. Firearms in open country, bow (including crossbows) in urban areas.
Just make sure you have enough freezer space at your local soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and food pantries.
You really want to wipe out the hogs, make the meat donated tax deductible at market rate if given to a non profit.
There is little way for a bunch of feckless government employees to get paid for busy work to bumblefuck that up.
Unfortunately, for career politicians, that’s not a feature but a bug.
I immediately thought of what the use of diclofenac has wrought in India:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
So wait, if I as a pest control tech use rat poison off label I can be fined. If a child dies/gets hurt from my off label use I’m holding soap on a rope.
But these idiots decide to throw a shit ton of blood thinner out there in a food bait and call it a day? Do they not realize that just because it’s “feral hog bait” that doesn’t mean “every other fucking creature may check it out”?
Besides warfarin is a shit rat poison, get some difethialone laced .223 a least shit
The real problem out here is the local landowners, they want to charge people up to $200 to hunt and $400 and up if they get a big hog. So, in their rush to make money and they are basically increasing The hog population by not telling them in mass when I have a chance.
Time will come when they will be shedding that money to get people to come hunt