Landowners and residents near Narrabri are fed up with pig carcasses being dumped on shire roadsides and near their property entrances.
In the latest incident, five feral pigs were dumped about two metres from the side of the road near the Maules Creek-Old Gunnedah Road turn off.
A resident of the area phoned The Courier to express his disgust.
“This is not the first time. It’s happening at other spots across the shire,” he said.
“It shows the dumpers’ contempt for the community.
“Why don’t these people leave the pigs where they shoot them instead of dumping numerous carcasses on public land in full view and smell of the passing traffic?”
The Maules Creek resident said he drove past the spot at midnight last Thursday and the pigs weren’t there then, but they were on Friday morning.
“Another resident on Wave Hill Road copped a heap of them last Saturday night,” he said.
“I get around a fair bit and I saw the carcasses dumped on the Culgoora Road, and there were a heap on another place.”
He said he rang the police, was put through to Moree, and was awaiting a response to his complaint.
Recently there have been other instances of carcasses dumped on the outskirts of the industrial estate.
“The pigs are feral and can be shot, but leave them where they are,” the resident said.
“I don’t blame every pig chaser but it makes everyone look bad when they are dumped.
“There will be a cost to the shire and ratepayers to send two or three men and a vehicle out to pick up the carcasses and dispose of them.
“Other people have had a gutful of this as well.”
Pig carcasses in public places and high summer temperatures are not what we want, he added.
“It looks bad for the town and the shire too.”
He suggested police could keep an eye out.
“If you see a pig chaser driving around at midnight, the police could pull them up and get their details and next day if someone complains about pigs being dumped they might have a fair idea who it is.”
Cr Lloyd Finlay is keen to see an end to the dumping of the pig carcasses in public places.
“I question the mentality of people dumping like this,” he said.
“It is very, very annoying.”
