Here Comes the Wild Pigs

Over the years we have watched for the stories about wild animals attacking humans.  Bears, coyotes, cougars and wolves are reported to attack humans in very rare circumstances.  But we also notice the words never and ever in the stories, like “black bear attacks hiker in New Jersey for first time ever”.

Our local NBC Channel 11 is doing a story this Wednesday on the 10 pm news about these hairy hogs that are soon creeping into MN, ND and MT from Canada and the mess they create.  Once they come they are nearly impossible to eradicate.  Hogs eat anything and make a huge mess as they root around in your garden or yard.

So you might ask what this has to do with prophecy?  Remember in Revelation 6 when the 4th seal is opened?  It says the rider on the pale horse was given power over 1/4th of the earth to kill by sword, famine, plague and the WILD BEASTS OF THE EARTH.  If planet earth is as close to this time of tribulation as we think we are, we should expect to see stories increase about wild animals, especially those capable of killing and eating humans.

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 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion. 

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that's spreading out of control.

Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet" and “an ecological train wreck.”

Pigs are not native to North America. While they've roamed parts of the continent for centuries, Canada's problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said. The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free. 

It turned out that the pigs were very good at surviving Canadian winters. Smart, adaptable and furry, they eat anything, including crops and wildlife. They tear up land when they root for bugs and crops. They can spread devastating diseases to hog farms like African swine fever. And they reproduce quickly. A sow can have six piglets in a litter and raise two litters in a year.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-11-22/exploding-wild-pig-population-on-western-canadian-prairie-threatens-to-invade-northern-us-states