2 mornings ago, Friday morn, our guard dog ('Fang') barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked-and-barked! Looked outside, saw nothing, back to bed.
Our neighbor across the street told us later (he's an early riser) that our garden had been invaded by eleven wild pigs. By his description I thought these were adults, but further questioning revealed they are young, who have invaded and decimated our vegetable & fruit garden.
They rooted up two papaya trees, snapped another in half, and rooted out our peppers, ate our oregano, un-planted our recently planted flowers and tried to uproot our fig tree.
This morning they were back again! and did even more damage.
(Picture Ka`onohi's wife seething, picture Ka`onohi plotting, picture our teenager saying "but they're cute!" Then offering to stand guard with his target bow and arrows.)
Eleven juvenile pigs. Last year we domesticated them (4) and sent them to pig villages.... This year... we are considering vengeance.
One plan: I have a motion-activated alarm which I will install where they access our garden area, hoping the surprising and unfamiliar noise will spook them, or wake us up so we can chase them until they establish new patterns of incursion elsewhere.
If that doesn't work... we live in a multi-acreage area where firearm hunting on private land is allowed, and I love tender young pork, but not dressing it out. I guess I can find a butcher who would dress out and butcher for 50/50.
It must have been a fertile year for pigs.
Suggestions welcome.
Our neighbor across the street told us later (he's an early riser) that our garden had been invaded by eleven wild pigs. By his description I thought these were adults, but further questioning revealed they are young, who have invaded and decimated our vegetable & fruit garden.
They rooted up two papaya trees, snapped another in half, and rooted out our peppers, ate our oregano, un-planted our recently planted flowers and tried to uproot our fig tree.
This morning they were back again! and did even more damage.
(Picture Ka`onohi's wife seething, picture Ka`onohi plotting, picture our teenager saying "but they're cute!" Then offering to stand guard with his target bow and arrows.)
Eleven juvenile pigs. Last year we domesticated them (4) and sent them to pig villages.... This year... we are considering vengeance.
One plan: I have a motion-activated alarm which I will install where they access our garden area, hoping the surprising and unfamiliar noise will spook them, or wake us up so we can chase them until they establish new patterns of incursion elsewhere.
If that doesn't work... we live in a multi-acreage area where firearm hunting on private land is allowed, and I love tender young pork, but not dressing it out. I guess I can find a butcher who would dress out and butcher for 50/50.
It must have been a fertile year for pigs.
Suggestions welcome.
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