The pigs came again last night.

[panader0]

Okay, they're not pigs, they're javelinas, a kind of peccary.
I feed and water the birds here at my house in the boonies, and the piggies can smell the water. Their little group, sometimes 6-10, make a mess. I left a 40 pound bag of bird seed on a chair and the next morning it was gone (except for the bag).
They can get fairly large and have razor teeth, so are dangerous. (Did I mention that they really stink?) I run outside in my undies with my Louisville slugger in the dark, banging the bat on the ground to scare them. It doesn't always work; once I was chased back into the house by a big one.
Actually, I like the creatures. They need the water, so I have begun putting buckets out away from the house so we can both be happy.

[hobbit709]

1. You couldn't pay me to run out in the dark with only a bat at a bunch of javelinas.

Even with a gun those little suckers are deadly.

[Coventina]

2. Neat!

I have never seen free javelinas, although I've lived here for over 30 years.
(I'm too far inside the city, I guess).

[rrneck]

3. This thread useless without video. nt

[rurallib]

4. where do you live, please?

[panader0]

6. Southeastern Az, about 12 miles, as the crow flies, from Mexico.

Very pretty here, about 4600 feet, mountains very close. Miller peak, at 9700 feet is the highest, most southern peak in the US.
I bought 40 acres 35 years ago right up against a large tract of BLM land. There's a large pond adjacent to my place, lots of wildlife.
Javelina, coyotes, many birds love the pond.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Very cool! Thanks for sharing this...

Sounds quite beautiful where you are. I visited Arizona many years ago and liked it a lot there, very different from where I live, perpetual snow country in the Northeast.

[Avalux]

5. Javelinas visited our campsite a few weeks ago - woke us up at 3 am.

It looked like a family; a couple of adults and a baby. They made quite a racket and ate up all the dog food, then moved on. The baby was cute.

[Jenoch]

7. Get a hunting license.

There are both spring and fall hunting seasons for javelinas in Arizona.

[Initech]

8. You know what you got to do right?

Get a slingshot and start flinging some birds at them and they'll go away.

[Kali]

9. love when the dogs run back to you with a pack of mad javalinas after them

on foot or horseback. yeehaw!

[janlyn]

11. Got chased by them once.

Actually it was more like got treed by them once! My brother and I spent a very uncomfortable few hours in a paloverde tree!! Ah, good times!!

[narnian60]

12. Thank you

for being humane.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. lolol so cute! I think that little pigster needs to be a cartoon character

Oh, and they stink, too? That makes them even funnier, in my book!!