Luck ran out for about a dozen pigs that escaped their flooded farm, swam through raging floodwaters and scrambled atop a sandbag levee in southeastern Iowa. Des Moines County sheriff's officials shot the pigs, saying they were worried the pigs would weaken the levee.
"Basically you cannot have something with a hoof walk on plastic and not poke a hole in the plastic and let water into it," said LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the county emergency management commission. "Hogs, they have a tendency to root and that would not have been good either."
"Basically you cannot have something with a hoof walk on plastic and not poke a hole in the plastic and let water into it," said LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the county emergency management commission. "Hogs, they have a tendency to root and that would not have been good either."
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I guess it's a good thing it wasn't nosey "rooting" kids stranded up there or handicap people with "sharp/pokey" prosthetics/wheel chair/etc... You'd think they would have just rescued the pigs instead of being so lazy and heartless...
Obviously the person who said "You'd think they would have just rescued the pigs instead of being so lazy and heartless..." has never tried to catch a 100lb hog!
Humans are wasting too much energy. Animals are smarter than human, however, people think they have the power to kill.....
STEP AND UNDERSTAND:
The hogs were just in waters that are causing humans to become extremely ill. These pigs were contaminated and would likely have been destroyed upon catching anyway. Efforts were made to catch them, but these are hogs - not dogs - they are scared, they are not tame. They don't walk on a leash. They are not pets. When they tried to catch them, they went back in the water, then would come back on the levy, tearing the sandbags. If the sandbags get water in them, the they will be useless and the potential of the levy breaking becomes worse than it already is.
Have you people seen the news?!?! Iowa is under 20-30' of water OVER FLOOD STAGES. People are losing everything and towns are being destroyed as the levys continue to break. You people really think that taking all those manhours to attempt to catch 15 hogs that are tearing up a levy is more humane than trying to save multiple towns, property, and other livestock downstream?! Are you serious!?!?!?
If you have so much time on your hands - get up here and start sandbagging.
No need to get testy there Anon!!
The problems in the Midwest aren't because some pigs were walking on sandbags. If it weren't for this government's failure to recognize that the infrastructure in this country is complete garbage, perhaps half of the Midwest wouldn't be floating away right now!!
You want to blame someone? Blame your government instead of some dead pigs, and the people who are angry that they were shot.
Why is an animals life not worth anything. They struggle in the water a long time just as a human would have. They actually made it without dying. Then they are shot and killed. Their struggle even made national news yesterday. I am saddened that they would be shot like that. I have had my house flooded. If it is going to happen it is going to happy with or without animals on the sandbags. They said the sandbags were damp which would cause them to leak anyway.
Gee, glad that there weren't any people stranded on their roofs in the hot sun who were finally able to swim to the levy only to be shot because they were clawing at the sandbags may risk causing the levy to break.
The compassion for the survivor albeit deer, pigs, dogs, people is underwhelming.
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