Woman attacked by pigs

[ewizabeff]

Let me first say that I have no farming experience, and little experience with animals in general. That being said, could someone please explain to me how pigs "attack?" They've never struck me as attack-type animals.

Woman Attacked By Pigs

[Blancofan1]

Pigs bite, a lot when they are stressed. I actually lived in Crawford county where this incident happened and you used to hear similar stories with regularity. Most of the pig farms around there have several hundred pigs and moving them from pen to pen isn't a very fun experience. Pigs don't really "attack", they are just basically a herd mentality animal that will eat just about anything when threatened.

[trwi7]

Pigs can be really nasty. They look tame but many wild pigs in the U.S. are escaped domestic pigs. They know how to survive and if they feel threatened they'll attack. I don't know how they felt threatened here (maybe the woman falling startled them and they sensed something?) but pigs can be nasty.

[Katuluu]

Beware of the man who owns a pig farm.

[bullox]

I'm guessing you never saw Deadwood.

[TheCrew07]

Katuluu.... what a perfect reference, and one of my all time favorite movies.

[bando1234]

I pig wrestled at our county fair. Ours was only about an 80lb pig. I was told to wear pants because they can bite hard. I had my arms around it & it dragged me about 2 feet thru the mud & im about 245lbs .

[GAME05]

Pigs can be really nasty. They look tame but many wild pigs in the U.S. are escaped domestic pigs. They know how to survive and if they feel threatened they'll attack. I don't know how they felt threatened here (maybe the woman falling startled them and they sensed something?) but pigs can be nasty.

domestic pigs can go ferule in about three days once they get into the wild, which is pretty amazing. and they're super smart.

[sbrylski]

Just be glad pigs don't have opposable thumbs.

[brewers4eric]

Pigs grow to around 240 pounds before they head to market. Up until that time, they will eat anything. When I was little, my brother gave me a farm safety demonstration by throwing an empty paper feed bag into a pen of 20 pound piglets. They shredded it like it was a roast in a shark tank. He told me to never lose my footing around pigs, if you were on the ground, you were basically food to them.

 

Four hundred pound sows are very protective of their piglets. My sophomore year of high school, I was transferring pigs from a nursery area to a feeder pen when a sow smashed her way out of a cast iron farrowing crate and pinned me against a wall. I escaped by climbing into another empty crate. I was a mass of bruises from my lower back to my ankles, and I could barely walk for a week. Hogs are as close to a land shark as you will find anywhere.

[fondybrewfan]

Pigs certainly attack, didn't anyone see Silence of the Lambs (I don't think it was SOL, perhaps Hannibal?)

 

I lived on a pig farm until I was 6 or 7. I had a reoccuring dream of killer pigs and me having to climb my swing set to escape them. Sadly our entire population of pigs caught some weird disease so we had to give up the profession. Can't say I was all that upset although it created quite a financial hardship

[PlayerHader]

Yep, pigs can be vicious. My uncle has several pigs on what amounts to a hobby farm across the road from my parents' house. Especially when they're little ones are around you need to watch out. I've never been bitten, but have nearly had to clean my shorts out on a couple of occasions when I got too close to their heads.

[ewizabeff]

Thank you all for the information. Note to self: avoid pigs.

[PlayerHader]

All that said. Baby piglets are just so darn cute. Is there another animal that turns from so cute to so damn ugly as it grows as much as a pig?