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A massive herd of "between 100 - 150" wild javelina — a.k.a. skunk pigs — have been terrorizing the water-guzzling Seven Canyons Golf Club in the state’s Coconino National Forest, leaving club owners searching for solutions in the wake of the javelina's destruction for the past six weeks.

Though the Arizona Alliance of Golf touted a $6-billion impact on the state made by golf courses — and "only 2% of Arizona’s daily water use" — an investigation by the Arizona Republic found courses in the state were over way over their daily water limits.

In 2021, the Arizona Republic found that across the state's 219 golf courses, the average water use per course came out to about 450,000 gallons per day.

The javelina are spurred on by a hunger-causing drought, seeking grazing greens and grub-worms on the course because it was carved out of the animals’ home turf. With less than 2 inches of rain this year in the Sedona area, the javelina are on a survival mission for food, compared to their relative quiet last year when the area saw up to 18 inches of rain.

But five years ago, during a particularly tough summer, the skunk pigs were running amok like they are now — sporting territory-marking scent glands on their rumps, which produce pungent odors from a nipple-like protrusion that humans can smell downwind. Seeking to drive them off, the club sprinkled granules of coyote urine around the course.

But did that stop the javelinas? Hell no. These little freaks absolutely loved it. The skunk pigs went berserk after doing bumps of coyote piss at the club, and then ran roughshod through a top-25 course that venerable sports publication Golf Digest ranks among the best in the country. Iconic.

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[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Uncritical support against all golf courses.

Also:

the average water use per course came out to about 450,000 gallons per day

stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

The average American uses 80-100 gallons a day for context

[-] glans@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Do they actually personally use it or does water used by golf courses and paper mills get included?

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Personal use yeah, so washing/bathing/cooking/drinking

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

For context, an Olympic sized swimming pool holds about 1.1 million gallons of water. That would fill almost half of that swimming pool.

xi-gun

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I've never heard javelinas referred to as "skunk pigs" and now I like them even more

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

I was terrorized by these satanic pint sized demon creatures for the first half of my life and I have also never heard javelina called this, but it fits

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I want a emoji of a skunk pig shitting on its balls

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

lol the article is worth it for the video of the wrecked golf course parts alone. pigs dig with their faces. as someone who has dug a lot of holes in the ground and generally worked soil a lot, face-style is the most aggressive / take no prisoners form of digging. it's incredible to watch/hear a group of pigs get into it.

they are some no-BS earthworkers and will turn the earth like beavers build dams.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

as someone who has dug a lot of holes in the ground and generally worked soil a lot, face-style is the most aggressive / take no prisoners form of digging

miyazaki-laugh

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah, go comrade hogs

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago
[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Uncritical support to the piss-snorting, anti-golf javelinas.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

They’re just like me fr

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love that Golf has become a symbol of petty boug shitheadery and so many people are on board with it.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

pungent odors from a nipple-like protrusion sicko-beaming

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She’s an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for her grub-worm girl dinner. She’s a guerilla class-warfare legend whose mating call sounds like the hissing warb-garble of a cappuccino machine milk-steamer. She’s the internet’s most beloved trash-eating ungulate — the uncompromising, the indefatigable, the lovely javelina.

chefs-kiss uncritical support to our javelina comrades and their campaign against g*lf

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ok so they caused a drought that made the pigs hungry and now the pigs are going to the land there is water

went berserk after doing bumps of coyote piss at the club

who among us

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago
[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

We really should consider arming the hogs

The smart ones

[-] bumblebeehellbringer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She’s an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for her grub-worm girl dinner. She’s a guerilla class-warfare legend whose mating call sounds like the hissing warb-garble of a cappuccino machine milk-steamer. She’s the internet’s most beloved trash-eating ungulate — the uncompromising, the indefatigable, the lovely javelina.

Transition goals

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Ironic that a communist site has given me a newfound appeciation for pigs of all animals

Go get 'em, little comrade. feral-hog

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

we need to arm the ELJ immediately, up their game from property destruction to golfer destruction

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Apparently these dumbasses have never heard of fencing

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

right after they banned my favorite light support weapon frothingfash

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, they got a shout-out on Minion Death Cult

I love these little piss pig poop balls... aww, they're so cute...

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

My day just got a lot better.

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