"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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Well, histrionics aside, I must say my adrenaline has got pumping. Was
just out to, er, fertilize the edge of the field before turning in, and
a great snorting and barking started perhaps 20m away. Couldn't see
anything in spite of the bright moon, but it certainly interrupted
programmed activities! I ran back to the door and sent the dog out,
he enthusiastically ran in the wrong direction. The beasts took off
into the woods to the north side, and were well away when dog came back.
He made a stab that way and I heard another one canter off back the
other way.

Stirs the blood proper... the boar here in Normandy are too hunted (and
too smart) to get very aggressive, but instinct says otherwise!

-E

When I visited my friend in rural Lower Saxony, I thought I was quite keen
to see some wild boar so we sat beside a pond in the gathering dusk watching
bats swooping over the water. It was the height of summer, idyllic.
Until I heard the definite sounds of wild boar approaching probably to drink
at the pond and then I was up and away hightailing it back to the house 1/4
mile away. Instinct kicked in, Emery, like you say.
They are very common there. Almost every field has a high wooden tower so
they can be shot from it, especially the potato fields. It's a very rural
area, there is not much other work available other than farming so the boar
are a real nuisance uprooting the crops.
There's quite a lot of forest everywhere there, and the boar come out during
the night into the fields that people are trying to scratch a living from.
So, I was too wimpy to see one..I really did want to but something in my
psyche said "you are out in the countryside with nothing to protect you,
with wild boar coming. Run!"
So I did.
Tina