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Consider a purely hypothetical situation of a farmer raising a herd of semi-domesticated wild boar imported from Europe at considerable expense to be sold at "a Posh persons supermarket" in London. "
Loverly jubberly, make a few bob there flogging them to Ha....". One awkward condition,they have to be humanely killed in a slaughter house, normal pigs no probs, these buggers go mad!. Slaughter house, "
Don't ever bring those ba*****s back here". So we have a small herd (or Sounder to use the correct term), have to be fed,looked after, vets bills.....not cheap keeping farm animals, no chance of getting rid of them for profit.......if only those two five bar gates were not padlocked overnight like they always are.....so obviously totally hypothetical,did not happen at all.....
What's interesting is the myths that have grown up around this, it happened near to the time of The Great Storm, so that got blamed for bringing down fences, a certain member of a "popular beat combo" from Liverpool who lives nearby and has lots of land also got the blame for releasing them, or rather his then wife did, sent his kids to the local Secondary School, (good on you Paul).
I've managed to get very close to a massive wild male,big tusks, humpy back, bristles, the lot, 30 mts, you would'nt want to get closer, fantastic creatures I'm glad they are back. And when your digging over your garden or allotment and a robin comes down and starts feeding where you've turned the soil over, where do you think this race memory comes from?.