Hello and good morning! Wondering if you folks can help out our family. Long story short, my daughter has a pet domesticated wild hog that has been her pet for over a year, her name is Queenie. The pig is a sow. She’s huge. She likes belly pets and blackberries. She loves being sprayed with the water hose in the summer. She lives in a pen with her best friend, GoatMan. We had dozer work being done on our land and the operator accidentally dropped a tree on their pen. Queenie and GoatMan escaped like a couple of Louisiana fugitives. GoatMan was easily caught and penned back up. However, Queenie remains quite elusive. She is staying in our yard or on the back porch chilling with the dogs. She is literally living her best life. She lets us pet her, nose boops our thighs and follows us around. But, by god, we cannot contain her. She is so damn fast to be so chunky. How the heck do we catch her? (For the record, we have no desire to slaughter her or lethally contain her). We live on about 60 acres, have a side by side, an older tractor, my van, my husband’s truck and a little skidster. We also have THC gummies. We’ve considered giving her a gummy and then dragging or scooping her into the pen. Photos attached for reference. Apologies if this is the wrong sub, it’s just been a really friendly/helpful sub to follow.
by kholimom
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Does she NEED to go back in her pen? It looks like you all are enjoying her company.
Maybe get some temporary electric fence to guide her back towards the pen?
This is reason number 1 to train all your animals to come a runnin when you shake a pan of grain. Never ever need to chase them, when they come for feed.
You can start training her now if you haven’t already. Shake grain, give it to her. Repeat. Once she come for the grain, leave the gate open to the pen, shake grain, when she comes in put it down for her – walk over and close the gate.
All animals can benefit from simple training
Dig a small pit and burn some wood at the bottom until it is completely ashen. Then place some grain on the edge of the hole and hide. When the pig comes to eat the grain run up from behind and kick her in the ash hole.
We tried to domesticate a wild boar once
Make a corral trap out of cattle panel and put her food in it
Honestly if that’s the pen in the back then yeah, she doesn’t want to go back, it’s tiny, she’s huge, and she has to share with a goat. You’ve spoiled this pig, and pigs are smarter than dogs, she see’s the high life and has no desire to be all cooped and cramped, she wants to be a free range piggy haha
Grab her by the back legs and walk her like a wheelbarrow back into her pen… she’s gonna kick but hold on and she’ll go!!!
You can have the operators insurance pay to have someone with a large trap come to trap her, or tranquilize her. You can get the pig drunk on beer then escort her back in. You can lure her in with something delicious. Since she is tame I think your potions are pretty open.
You’re going to need 3 strong people and a rope
Could put a big pink collar with a bow or something of the sort, should make it less likely she would be taken by a hunter. Can’t really say you didn’t notice it through the scope.
She’ll likely follow the lure of a high value food. What’s her favorite thing? Figure that out and you’ll have a pig that’ll follow you anywhere.
My daughter’s pig was out for over a week and I finally got it to go back in it’s enclosure by offering it a cream cheese danish.
Do you have hog boards? If not, sturdy fencing panels will work: make a triangle around her, and walk her back into her pen.
Tie a piece of rope around her rear foot. Pull on the rope. She will back up. Guide her toward the pen.
If you’re in central GA, I know a guy who live traps pigs.
Cheapest way? Beerbread. 1 Beer per 50lbs of pig mixed with enough bread to sponge it up. This is enough to calm them down. If you want to knock her off her hooves double it.
This has every single alarm bell in my head ringing at max volume. Do not accept credit from those operators under any circumstances. They already fucked you over three times by being clueless when dropping trees do you really need to let it happen a FOURTH time? (Pig escaped, destroyed pen, tree in driveway)
Tell them you need their business insurance info. Do not let them back on the property until you get that, and take them to court to fix shit if they don’t have insurance.
They caused thousands in damage when you include your sweat equity, and you might spend several thousand to trap the pig if these suggestions don’t work out. I would not be putting myself at risk to get that gal back into her enclosure under any circumstances. These 3 things have been their fuck up, and they need to make it right immediately.
Potato chips
A trail of blackberries leading her to her pen
Pigs are awesome soooo smart. Already lots of good stuff. I think luring with food and then like a collar type thing or a sedative but if it’s in food their noses are so sensitive. They’d be able to smell it
If you give an edible to a wild hog, I really hope you will post video.
Get something like a St. Bernard harness that my St. Bernard has… Then hand feed her blackberries to wherever the pen is
Will she be lured by company and/or snacks?
You could throw yourselves a picnic in a pen and share with her. Make a small production of setting up so she gets interested and be really casual about closing the gate.
Goes to show how feral hogs have invaded so much of the world. Even fully domesticated pigs can do pretty amazing on their own.
I would get her to follow me into a wide open pen with her favourite treat
Grab those back legs and enjoy the fun
I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet. But putting a 5 gallon pail works. Pigs don’t want their head covered, and will back out of the pail. Keep putting pressure on the pail to ensure her head doesn’t come out. You can steer her with that pail and she will back up right where you need her.
-source, I’m a former hog/cattle hauler