From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: help with neighborhood dogs
Date: 12 Aug 92 04:27:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <BsKLxr.JuA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug5.152131.15862@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
>>From article <15n1vhINNl6e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, by larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee):
>>> 
>>> will assure you that if you discharge a firearm in order to shoot the
>>> pig he will arrest you.  You can trap the pig, but if you then kill
>>> it, you have broken the law--unless you first get a permit to kill the
>>> pig (without discharging a firearm).  And they won't give you such
>>> permits in advance: you have to have the pig in hand before they will
>>> issue exactly one permit to kill a feral pig.

I have before me the State of California Department of Fish and Game 1992
California Hunting Regulations, Part 1 (Mammals and Furbearers).

Page 28:  

368.  Wild Pig.  Wild Pigs may be taken only as follows:
 (a)  General Seasons and Areas:
 (1) Santa Catalina Island [... you arn't there, ommited -ems]
 (2) Balance of the State:
 (A) Area:  Statewide, except as described in Subsection (1).  (B) Season:
 Open all year.  (b)  Bag and Possesion Limit: (1) Santa Catalina [ ...
 you still arn't there. -ems]  (2)  Balance of the State:  One pig per day,
 one in possession. (See Section 401).
 (c) Application For and Use of Wild Pig License Tags:
 (1) Any person, 12 years of age or older, who posseses a valid hunting
 license may procure wild pig license tags as specified in section 4654
 of the Fish and Game Code.
 (2) Wild pig license tags will be sold to residents in packets of five.
 Nonresident wild pig license tags will be sold individually.
 (3) Wild pig license tags are valid only during that portion of the current
 hunting license year in which wild pigs may be legally harvested as
 provided in subsection 368(a). [which is the part this starts with and 
 says 'all year', so go figure ... -ems]
 [it then goes on to say that tags cost $1.50 each and you can buy them
 if you have a hunting license and some other beaurocratic stuff. -ems]

There are also some general safety regulations (like you can't shoot
from or across a public road, or have a loaded gun in a vehicle, or
shoot within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling) all of which could make it a
bit non-practical to shoot a pig in self defense and call it hunting...
(i.e. you would have to get off the road and make sure no occupied
dwelling was within 150 yards ...), BUT:

I see nothing here that would let the Santa Cruz County Sheriff bust you
for shooting a pig on private land (i.e. step off the road before firing)
provided you have the permission of the land owner (in writing) to hunt
on that land.  Go get a hunting license and tags, then shoot the sucker.
(The pig, not the Sheriff! ;-)

>>Hmmm, it might be entertaining to trap a couple of these pigs and
>>turn 'em loose in the sheriff's house or police station.  Mind,
>>this would have to be done very discreetly, and I'm not saying
>>that you should.
>
>He's also not saying that you should be sure to grease the pig first
>before setting it loose. ;-)

Unfortunately, the 'methods of take' listed for 'big game' (page 8)
only allow for the use of rifles, shotguns, handguns, bow & arrow,
crossbow, and black powder guns.  Baiting and using traps are 
prohibited ... though there is a special section on getting a 
trappers license, but I don't have that code handy ... 

Basically, there are specific and blanket prohibitions on herding,
harrasing, baiting, trapping ... etc. unless you fall into an 
exception, and THE major exception is that you can blow them into
little bits with personal light artillery ;-) provided you have 
the right license and tags...  Now, maybe a greased pig corpse
could be arranged ... but it would have to have one of YOUR
tags on it with YOUR name  8-0  ... Have a nice day...

-- 

E. Michael Smith  ems@apple.COM

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