Well and truly beats my post about Weired & Unique

[Die Judicii]

Back on 23rd Oct 2023 I put up a post under this topic titled "Totally Weired yet Unique"
It was about a little black feral piglet that had obviously been orphaned,, and which had adopted a Merino wether as Mum or Dad.
It followed that wether everywhere,, including up the race and into the shearing shed on one occasion, along with all the other sheep.

Sadly that little pig disappeard about a month after I posted about it.
There had been two big Wedge Tail Eagles move into the area at the time, and we think they took the piglet.

A little while ago I was talking to a friend of mine who had seen the pics of the little pig and the wether on my phone.
He said he had some extra good pics to show me of another feral pig.

His pic showed an almost adult sized feral pig sucking milk from one of his cows.
The cow also had her own calf,,,, and she was feeding both it and the pig.
Apparently it had been doing so for several weeks,, and a tradie that was at my friends property also managed to get video footage of the pig
feeding from the cow as well as still pics.

It's not every day you see something like that.

[Wapiti]

Pigs are very intelligent as you know mate, and will do whatever they can to survive. That cow obviously didn't mind it's attempt at survival, and it prospered.

I have a huge respect for pigs, and have brought a couple of feral piglets up and learned a lot from them. In both cases they proved to be more loyal, and more intelligent, than some of the @rseholes I've had to associate with in life.

One boar I brought up used to come on walking hunts with me. He thought he was a human and used to find his fellow pigs for me, hidden in scrub patches and in big hollows. If I took a roo for meat (I would get damage-mitigation permits), he'd literally beat the hell out of it, throw it into the air (it was dead of course). He hated kangaroos.
He used to get between me and visitors he didn't know that's show up and waste my time, like the 7-Day Adventists and the wannabe-hunters that'd show up on weekends and be very aggressive towards them. He could read if someone was afraid of him and always had to be 2nd on the pecking order under me. It was hilarious to watch people literally cr@p themselves. Especially since he had big tusks and got pretty big on the diet he had.

Anyway, he f*cked up because he broke through the fence and welt for a walk on a neighbours property who had regular pig-dog hunters and he met his end. All the pics of this "giant boar" these heros got proved the story of how he just saw them and ran up to them. They sicked their dogs on him.

These pig-dog parasites come onto my place after that, poaching, and I nearly got those two dogs. If it wasn't for the two blokes running them showing up directly behind them as I got the first bead, they were going to be very distressed. I was devastated in that lost opportunity, really ate me, until I heard both dogs got killed by another pig. There is karma, and when the deceased dog's owner's missus left him after that, it was complete.

[bigrich]

Pigs are very intelligent as you know mate, and will do whatever they can to survive. That cow obviously didn't mind it's attempt at survival, and it prospered.

I have a huge respect for pigs, and have brought a couple of feral piglets up and learned a lot from them. In both cases they proved to be more loyal, and more intelligent, than some of the @rseholes I've had to associate with in life.

One boar I brought up used to come on walking hunts with me. He thought he was a human and used to find his fellow pigs for me, hidden in scrub patches and in big hollows. If I took a roo for meat (I would get damage-mitigation permits), he'd literally beat the hell out of it, throw it into the air (it was dead of course). He hated kangaroos.
He used to get between me and visitors he didn't know that's show up and waste my time, like the 7-Day Adventists and the wannabe-hunters that'd show up on weekends and be very aggressive towards them. He could read if someone was afraid of him and always had to be 2nd on the pecking order under me. It was hilarious to watch people literally cr@p themselves. Especially since he had big tusks and got pretty big on the diet he had.

Anyway, he f*cked up because he broke through the fence and welt for a walk on a neighbours property who had regular pig-dog hunters and he met his end. All the pics of this "giant boar" these heros got proved the story of how he just saw them and ran up to them. They sicked their dogs on him.

These pig-dog parasites come onto my place after that, poaching, and I nearly got those two dogs. If it wasn't for the two blokes running them showing up directly behind them as I got the first bead, they were going to be very distressed. I was devastated in that lost opportunity, really ate me, until I heard both dogs got killed by another pig. There is karma, and when the deceased dog's owner's missus left him after that, it was complete.

interesting story mate , nothing could surprise me about feral pigs . the solitary boars i hunt up the road from you are very cunning . i get their sows and younger boars, but there's 2 older one's that have a sixth sense for survival . glad to hear Kharma caught up with your neighbours
each to their own , but dogging is one of the most brutal things i've seen . a bullet's a lot kinder .

[Wapiti]

If you ever get the chance to bring up a feral piglet and you have it around all the time and take notice of it, you will learn more about these animals than any story in a hunting magazine.
I think pigs have an intelligence rating that swaps between dolphins as second under humans. The only reason they haven't been able to make guns to shoot back at humans is because they haven't got hands.