My training boar Pumba was born on our place and giving to another hunter as a training boar. A couple of years ago I got Pumba back as my previous boar had disappeared after killing the three other boars in the block.
Pumba turned out to be a bit hard on some training dogs. He would bail ok and would not do a lot of fighting with dogs as he would just wait for a dog to make a mistake and it was normally over in one hit. Before my young dog Gus was a year old Pumba opened up his front shoulder so I decided to get his tusks cut off.
This was not going to be an easy job, after talking to the Geraldine vets it was decided my best option was to get Pumba onto a trailer and bring him into the vet surgery. So prior to booking him in I started feeding him in my trailer.
Once I had him in the trailer I moved him into the cattle yards then made an appointment with the vets for the 13/2/2025. On the day he was due to get his tusks cut off all I had to do was feed him in the trailer and he jumped straight up.
At the vets he was giving an injection to knock him out, Once he was down we pulled his head out of the create door and the vet used a peice of wire to cut the tusk off which only took a few seconds.
Once both tusks were cut off Pumba was given another injection to bring him around. We waited until he had regained conchisness and was back on his feet before the return journey back home.
Pumba tusks had grown back much quicker than I had expected. Just six months later on the 13/8/25 I was in the training block when one of my dogs, Bruce got ripped by him. So his tusks had grown back enough in six months to rip a dog.
I managed to get another photo of his jaw on the 16/1/26 and I can see that his tusks had grown back in under one year.
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