Wild boar!

[Nicos]

Oh wow!
just spotted my first wild boar lolloping through the woods next to our garden!

I've heard them but never actually seen one ...yippppeee!

lovely thing -looks like something out of Astérix

that's absolutely made my day

[Snoop Puss]

They are massive, aren't they? I sometimes walk the dogs very late at night and worry about meeting one. I sing as I walk along. I used to have a decent voice, but now I think it's of a standard able to frighten boar away! Never seen one yet while I've been out with the dogs, so it must be working.

The other day, I was in part of our land that I haven't been to for a while and spotted relatively recent boar tracks. Always makes me glad to know they're about and that our impact on the local wildlife is minimal (apart from the rodent population, which the cats are welcome to!).

[Nicos]

Yes indeed!....Huuuuuge!!!

[burnie]

Can do a lot of damage to a garden though...……………………….

[Greenleaves]

When I used to consult at a company in Coleford, the boar would charge cars if they had young with them

[Scarlet]

I actually saw one last week while walking the dog with a friend. I came home and told the OH who didn't believe me. I had a little g@ggle and Wiltshire has recently experienced a huge increase in numbers. They scare me a bit.

[veggiechicken]

My next door but one neighbour found a Vietnamese Pot bellied pig in her garden one day and came to me to ask what she do about it.
It had eaten her lettuces and trashed most of her garden but we managed to keep it out of the GH.
The RSPCA didn't want to know and it lived in her garden for 3 days until the Pot-bellied Pig Rescue came and took it away..
Apparently, they knew who the owner was and it had a habit of straying over the mountain!!

Not quite a wild boar but its the closest I've come to one.

[SarrissUK]

There's a lot of wild boar where I grew up in Sweden too, and there were never any when I was little. They do dig up an awful lot of grassy areas - my mum's neighbour had her entire back garden dug up not long ago.

[Snoop Puss]

Apparently boar don't like the colour red. Not sure if that's true or not, but the locals here plant red roses to keep them off their potato patches.

[Nicos]

Our local major told us to warn our gite clients that if they hit a wild boar with their car NOT to get out and check how badly injured it is as if it has any ability left it will absolutely attack them