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Hey Silverhorners! Welcome to he View From Silverhorn Mountain! Today is a great day, it's Saturday and it's also Animals In The News Day, a feature we haven't had for awhile. I apologize if you find today's animal story boring....that's because it is....it's about wild boars on the loose in England!

Yup, seems like a herd of wild boars which originally escaped from a truck in 2004 and have now grown in number, are now roaming wild through the woods, fields and even the villages in a place called "The Forest of Dean" which I assume means it belongs to someone named "Dean".  England hasn't had a wild boar on the loose for some 3 centuries, so these critters are coming as something of a surprise to the villagers....(Ever notice how it's always "villagers" who are terrorized, I think villagers get terrorized far more than city folk....)

The boars are not boring, far from it really. In fact as the roam the English countryside, they are raiding rubbish bins, attacking dogs, digging up stuff and causing havoc in ways that only a herd of wild boars can cause havoc. This emerging situation is made worse because the villages garbage collection has been delayed of late, and that means there are lots of opportunities for the wild boars to get their groove on.

 In a report from Reuters, wild boar expert, Ecologist Martin Goulding, who holds a doctorate degree in Wild Boar Ecology, (something I always wanted) said that boars like to scavenge, "scavenging was a natural activity for the porcine raiders and that a rich harvest of food from the bins will encourage more boar to target trash cans."

Expert Goulding said that it wasn't a good idea to provoke the boars......uh-huh...that....is why the world needs  more experts to be interviewed....to tell us important stuff that we otherwise wouldn't understand....such as...there is a herd of wild boars raiding my garbage...they each weigh about 440 pounds...I think I will go out and slap a few on the butt....get them out of my garbage......

Apparently the villagers are divided on what to do about these boars...there are some who want to kill them off, get rid of them, then there are others, like the Expert, Goulding, who think that the boars are a natural creature, indigenous to the area and therefore have a right to live in the area. This apparently inspite of the attacks on villagers dogs and property....Those folks think that it's Ok to leave the boars alone to roam the Forest of Dean and the assorted villages....

Here on Silverhorn we were once terrorized by a herd of squirrels that got into the steroids at the Silverhorn Village Body Building Store....it was a little nuts around here for awhile.....

Well....they are villages and everyone village has one.......

Read the real story: Wild Boar Raids Anger Residents