From a strictly scientific perspective it is likely that this is happening, and will continue to get worse. If you impose a selection criteria on a species, the trajectory of that species will be effected. Anyone know of anyone suffering with a "MRSA" infection?
Medicine isn't the only place we see this. We see it on the hunt too. Over time, we've watched the wild bred ringnecks become nearly flightless birds. 30-40 years of "if it flies it dies" will do that.
The bad news for hog hunters, due to generational cycles and other factors, the evolutionary "clock" for Suidae should be slower than for Pheasents, and much slower than Staphylococcus. So if feral swine are being selected by human/canine hunting patterns for bay-breaking runners, then we've only seen the beggining, it will only get worse in the coming decades.
Hopefully, this is actually not happening though, because if it is, and you combine that with the effects of suburban sprawl and rural land development (which will only get worse in coming years), we will find ourselves in a situation where we need super gritty bottomless running catch dogs, but then not be able to run them because every five minutes the race will cross a property line.
Will we be trading in our dog boxes for hog traps in a decade or two? I doubt it... we could probably have a whole 'nother conversation about trap-wise hogs, LOL!!!
i agree. just like we breed dogs that have a lot of "hunt" in them. the majority of hogs left breeding are the ones that have a lot of "run" in them. the ones that dont have enough run in em are dead or going to be dead.
