We were rescued by our grandmother, who walked softly and carried a big stick instead of a submachine gun.
I grew up in Brazil, and used to spend a great number of school breaks and vacations at my grandmother's farm, about 40 minutes outside of Anápolis, Goiás. Growing up we knew to steer clear of feral animals, and to avoid the bamboo thickets because there were snakes in there. We had never even considered needing anything more for protection, day-to-day.
Looking down, we noticed that it was a mother feral hog that had recently given birth to baby hogs. She must have had eight to 10 total in her herd. Which is terrific, except it made them protective and possibly hostile to us. We called out for help, but were out of earshot. In 1988 I don't think we had a landline at the farm, much less cell phones. So we sat up there for while and ate guavas from the guava tree, drip drying, flicking off ants and waiting for the hogs to leave.
I've never been threatened with 30 to 50 hogs, which does sound like a very large herd. I had no idea US farmers had similar problems to Brazilian farmers. They're considered an invasive species most everywhere, it seems, threatening crops and occasionally life and limb. In Brazil, it is legal to cull them, but in our farm we never have.
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