Opening the Post-Standard the other day I was amazed to find an article about the wild boars of New York. Yeah, sure, I thought. Where are they? The Adirondacks?
No, it turns out, they are here. They walk - or charge and pillage - among us.
The article spoke about hunters at the South end of Skaneateles Lake - check it out! - who were hunting deer and instead found boars. Four of them they killed - the other 6 or so got away.
Yeah, sure. Five hundred pound wild boars rooting and snuffling in the leaves at the south end of the lake. Where I was on Monday with a client. In the trees, by the water where they would come to drink. Hmmmm.....
Worse is yet to come! They migrate, those boars do...right up the lake on the east side, out of Cortland County and the Town of Scott up to Spafford even and East Lake Road. Forget deer! I rumbled through there in the fog and rain at 6o miles per hour watching for deer. A five hundred pound wild boar would do real damage to the Scion.
And more! These notorious wild boar have actually made it to the Town of Skaneateles - whoa, Nellie!
And it looks like they are here to stay. My research shows (ask some friendly construction/hunter guys) that wild boar - honest to goodness - double in population every year! Every year! We will be overrun by 2010!
Picture it now: that lovely home down off East Lake Road with the huge perennial garden by the water, the decks covered in vines. You pull in from a lazy afternoon out sailing and there in the decking is - a pig's snout? In the rhododendrons? Can it be - yes! And one is sunning herself - quite pregnant, too - in your favorite lounge!
Be careful out there!
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