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Don't have a warthog for a pet

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maroon barchetta
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Not sure if this has been posted.

Crazy story. Incredible that this guy survived. They are called "wild animals" for a reason.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/warthog-attack-texas-exotics/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cm_paid_facebook&utm_campaign=cm-traffic&fbclid=IwAR0KigUb_a4V-87tXMbhUymPgFlWCHOhxH_c00_k8pF1B9Z39mM6x0L8pbo_aem_AZk6SUdoU2rB_DmHnC_PcLS7A1L8RPErkUpzJ93QsL64mWk9XW7gdd9Y9wGHoKiguvC23emWEvyu1hoc5wwisKFY
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Crazy … got to be careful around wild animals and listen to the experts when they say don't keep wild animals as pets. This young man is extremely lucky to be alive … sad story because the wart hog and him had a lot of good memories up until that happened

If your gonna keep a wart hog as a pet, I would at least have his tusk removed or cut off .. and any large teeth cut down…. If those tusk were removed this kid probably would have way way less injuries
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If he had died he would be a darwin award nominee.

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I hope the bacon and pulled pork were good from the freshly slaughtered pig.
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AgTrip
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They make good get-away rides when being hunted!

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Quote:

"People are so mean to each other for no reason, but animals, they've always felt peaceful to me," he told me last month as he fixed a fence on the edge of his family's ranch, keeping one eye on an anxious herd of kudu upset by the presence of his all-terrain vehicle. "And unlike people, they almost always give back what you put into them."
When I read what the guy's been through in his life it didn't make me want to mock him. He made a horrible mistake in judgment. And what he said about animals almost always giving back what you put into them tends to be true. If you're talking about dogs. But not wart hogs.
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What's the opposite of Hakuna Matata?
Josepi
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The guy seems pretty likable, and let's be honest here. The guy put himself in a dangerous situation because he had been around the animal for it's entire life and he had forgotten about the inherent danger.

Hell, I find myself doing it with a chainsaw all the time. I've used one so often without issue that I find myself getting sloppy.

It's just a good reminder to remain vigilant when you know you are doing something that involves risk.

I'm glad the guy pulled through.
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dodger02 said:

What's the opposite of Hakuna Matata?


FA and FO?
zooguy96
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Stupid to have that as a pet. And I've had a lot of exotics.

We used to have an employee at one of the zoos I worked at who had 2 hyenas, 2 African wild dogs, and a couple of Nile Crocs. He used to pick up road kill to feed them all.

He was kind of an idiot, but he wasn't unsafe around them. Still stupid to have those types of pets.
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I'll say that everything I'm posting is my opinion and everyone is entitled to their own, without judgement . This whole story makes me sad. I am going to take a different perspective from most and say….i don't blame him or fault him for the decision. There are people who have animals and there are animal people. The former will never understand the latter fully. It just sucks all the way around and like everything, hindsight is 20/20. Personally, I totally get the love of animals. We do rescues…dogs, horses, pigs, if we have room at the ranch, we do what we can. We get abused rescue dogs and within days of getting them, my face is in theirs. Do the wrong thing and they'll bite. It's happened numerous times. You have to understand it. We have a rescue horse that was abused and after months of work, he calmed and I rode him for a while without issue and one day he threw me into a mesquite and cactus and hauled ass. I knew he could but I had success and we seemed to get on fine so…complacency. We had some Kuni Kuni pigs we raised from tiny babies. They were awesome. As they got older, no matter how much we loved them and cared for them, they'd walk by and bite your damn leg for no good reason. Then they wandered. They wandered a mile away to a neighbors deer feeder…and let me tell you about pigs with spots eating at a feeder with A neighbor who hunts pigs. They got shot…and eaten. Why'd they wander? We fed them! But they did and that's what they do and that's all there is to it. The neighbor told us they looked like feral pigs and we were just glad they got eaten and not wasted but it is what it is.

They are animals. Wild animals are even worse but I get where this guys heart was and I get how he feels being "betrayed". We, as humans, have an entire gamut of emotion and animals, just don't. We can reason things out. We feel bad and guilty. We place our emotions on the animals we love. we personify them as if they were human. I agree that animals pay back ten fold but they also have triggers that their love cannot overcome. I liken it to charging an animal in a corner vs me being charged in a corner by a bad guy. I have the ability to process a million things at once to determine if I should kill him. An animal doesn't. It processes a few things but a decision is made rapidly and without hesitation.

I feel bad for the guy. I'm glad he survived. I'm sad it happened. I'm sad he had to kill his friend. I'm sorry his folks had to go through it. I'm just sad and sorry to hear the whole thing. Terrible situation.
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zooguy96
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There's a reason it takes thousands of years to domesticate animals. It's because wild animals are wild.

Even though the jaguar that stalked me had been hand raised by humans - it was still "wild".
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zooguy96 said:

There's a reason it takes thousands of years to domesticate animals. It's because wild animals are wild.

Even though the jaguar that stalked me had been hand raised by humans - it was still "wild".
thousands of years? That study on foxes was much faster. But at the end of the day, animals are animals. Dogs which have been domesticated still attack. So do cattle. I had a damn goat that did too and we had BBQ cabrita.
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It could have been worse. It could have been a Pitbull.
Lonestar-aught-six
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But my A10 Warthog identifies as a pet.
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Josepi said:

The guy seems pretty likable, and let's be honest here. The guy put himself in a dangerous situation because he had been around the animal for it's entire life and he had forgotten about the inherent danger.

Hell, I find myself doing it with a chainsaw all the time. I've used one so often without issue that I find myself getting sloppy.

It's just a good reminder to remain vigilant when you know you are doing something that involves risk.

I'm glad the guy pulled through.


Complacency kills, which is why i see this sign at work so often.
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McInnis said:

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"People are so mean to each other for no reason, but animals, they've always felt peaceful to me," he told me last month as he fixed a fence on the edge of his family's ranch, keeping one eye on an anxious herd of kudu upset by the presence of his all-terrain vehicle. "And unlike people, they almost always give back what you put into them."
When I read what the guy's been through in his life it didn't make me want to mock him. He made a horrible mistake in judgment. And what he said about animals almost always giving back what you put into them tends to be true. If you're talking about dogs. But not wart hogs.


This made me LOL
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Disney has warped peoples understanding of undomesticated animals starting with Bambi.

I always think of Grizzly Man who thought he could be friends with bears.

WaldoWings
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The first thing i thought of is how they say a bottle raised bull is the most dangerous animal on the farm. Probably applies to many types of animals.

https://www.producer.com/livestock/bottle-fed-bulls-can-grow-up-to-be-mean/
HillCountry15
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Holy crap that's insane. I've always wondered how often this stuff happens at these sanctuaries/wildlife preserves
HalifaxAg
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Waylon was just lonesome, ornery & mean...

HalifaxAg
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Trinity Ag said:

Disney has warped peoples understanding of undomesticated animals starting with Bambi.

I always think of Grizzly Man who thought he could be friends with bears.


...right, I thought Waylon's gas would have gotten him first
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HalifaxAg said:

Waylon was just lonesome, ornery & mean...




genius!
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willas
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I never understood people who get wild animals as pets. It is so dangerous! Whe don't get a dog or a cat? I have a German Shepherd, best dog ever! And recently I got a Maine Coon cat https://kittylandkittens.com/maine-coon/maine-coon-in-texas/ Well, it's never boring at home. No need to get a warthog.
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Your only post is to bump an 8 month old post?
DoitBest
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gotta start somewhere I guess......
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