Hi Nic, yes – totally agree this should be the approach whenever possible for all the reasons you outline. It is difficult though when people bring hogs into carers and although they leave a contact name and location area, are often not interested or contactable in re-releasing once the hog is fixed. Carers are then left with little option but to use rehabilitators whom they know have safe release sites at least.
On this topic – I understand some of the larger wildlife hospitals themselves re-release hogs in huge numbers in same locations year after year (many refuse to hand back to those who have handed in – understandable I guess if you are talking hundreds of numbers)- is there anything that suggests this is working as an approach or resulting in issues either for hogs or otherwise?
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