Wild hogs causing havoc in Texas...

[Archae]

I'm guessing there are similar problems in other states as well.

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Dozens of feral hogs run through Texas neighborhood

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KHOU) - A neighborhood got some unwanted visitors, a huge pack of feral hogs, and it didn’t take long for them to do some serious damage.

The security camera on the porch of Glen Garner’s Sienna home captured the midnight dinner party happening on his front lawn.

“I wasn’t expecting to see that. I was thinking maybe to see two, three or four, not 25 or 30,” he said.

After the sun came up one morning last week, Garner stepped outside, to walk his daughter to the bus stop.

The evidence was hard to miss.

“Saw a ton of damage in our front yard, in our neighbors’ yard. Some of the houses down the street were hit worse than others,” Garner said.

https://www.wbay.com/2021/12/15/caught-video-dozens-feral-hogs-run-through-texas-neighborhood/

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Wow

I have a sister that lives there. Very scary.

[hatrack]

2. I, for one, welcome our new Porcine Overlords!!

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[jimfields33]

4. I can understand your feelings and why you have them.

But they do cause a lot of damage that costs a lot of money to correct.

[Demovictory9]

17. I see just cosmetic damage to yards in the video

[inthewind21]

23. All I see

Is a bit of dirt tossed around. Not the "extensive damage" that was said but not shown.

[LeftInTX]

31. They look like piglets to me....

[Nac Mac Feegle]

3. I wonder

If there's anything wrong with shooting/trapping and eating them?

Texas is known for beef BBQ, but with a free meat supply, the profit margin might be attractive.

:-^)

[viva la]

5. I'd buy a ticket!

I love barbecue pork.

Are these native wild hogs? Or the descendants of ones escaped from ranches?

[EX500rider]

11. I don't believe there are any native hog species

The only native pig species to America are the javelina of the Southwest deserts I believe

[Elessar Zappa]

30. Technically javelinas aren't really pigs but rather distant relatives.

[LeftInTX]

32. Escaped from farms many years ago..European/Asian hogs

Now they are feral due to poor control efforts.

Lots of parasites in feral hogs too.

You know why it is forbidden to eat swine in some religions?

Swine were the old "sewers" of ancient society. Feral hogs eat animal feces for fun.....

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. In my home state of Arizona,

the Arizona Game and Fish Department does not regulate the hunting of wild hogs, you don't need a hunting license, there is no limit as to how many you can hunt, and there is no designated season, you can hunt them all year long.

My next door neighbor hunts and he treated me to a BBQ of wild hog one weekend, some of the best pork I have ever eaten.

In Texas, it's pretty much the same, the only exception is that you would need a hunting license, other than that, you can hunt them to your heart's desire.

[Amishman]

15. current rules make it very difficult

my understanding is that the animals would have to be captured live, and then taken to a USDA inspected slaughterhouse.

The former adds a ton of cost and difficulty, and most of the latter won't accept wild caught animals.

[madville]

20. Depends where you are at

Here in North Florida there are wild game processors all around, they'll cut up, cube or grind the meat, make sausage, etc. It's not too expensive, usually $60-100 depending what you have done.

We shoot wild hogs regularly on our deer lease, I usually butcher them myself though. I have my deer done at the processor though, they add 20% beef fat to the burger and it comes out really well.

[Amishman]

22. that's fine for personal consumption, for resale it is different i believe

In other words, they'd only be allowed to sell it to someone else if it was processed in the way I described

[madville]

28. Yeah, commercial resale isn't allowed most places. Some states do allow donation of wild game meat

to charities that distribute it to needy families.

[sir pball]

16. I've "hunted" them in TX

I use the term hunting quite loosely, as there's pretty much no rules when you're exterminating pests - we dumped a bunch of feed in a field and set up a bench about forty yards away, when a good sized pack had gathered over the bait we just hosed them down with high-powered semiautomatic (non-military-style) rifles, as fast as we could. Lather, rinse, repeat. Got close to 50 after all was said and done; took a couple for eating, dumped the rest in a pit and buried them.

[LeftInTX]

25. I don't know why the require a hunting license in Texas. They're an invasive specie

[madville]

21. Nothing at all as long as you follow state hunting, property and firearms laws if shooting them

I kill a few wild hogs every year here in Florida, they are delicious. I also usually get 3-5 deer a year also, probably 90% of the meat I eat is wild game I either killed hunting or fish and crabs I catch at the gulf.

[inthewind21]

24. No there is not

My sister hunts wild hog in Texas and it's quite tasty. And in Texas, because there are so many, you don't need a hunting license. Of course you can't walk down a residential street shooting at a heard of wild pigs running through. But yes, you can hunt them and eat them.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

26. You don't need a hunting license to hunt wild hogs in Texas as long as it's on private land,

if on public land, then you need to have a hunting license.

Hunting License No Longer Required to Hunt Wild Pigs in Texas
25 Jun
Hunting License No Longer Required to Hunt Wild Pigs in Texas
wild pigs, hunting, private land stewardship
Author: Josh Helcel

Published: June 25, 2019

No hunting license? No problem…at least when it comes to wild pigs (Sus scrofa). These exotic invaders continue to be a growing detriment to water quality, native species, habitat and agricultural production. Estimates indicate that wild pigs cause between $800 M and $1.5 B in agricultural damages alone each year in the US (Pimental 2007; Elsey et al. 2012). Texas is home to an estimated 2.6 M wild pigs, and driving the population downward is vital to reducing negative impacts. The good news is that regulations for taking wild pigs have not been too arduous. Now things just got even easier – in order to hunt wild pigs on private lands in Texas you officially no longer need to purchase a hunting license.

Governor Gregg Abbott signed Senate Bill 317 into law on May 31, 2019, permitting any landowner, landowner’s agent or lessee to take wild pigs without a hunting license. There has been some confusion on this topic regarding the old regulations. Prior to the bill, wild pigs had to be actively depredating or causing damage, in order to be taken without a license by either a landowner or a designated landowner’s agent (Figure 1). While many would offer that wild pigs are always causing damage, or at least are about to do so, the new changes serve to remove doubt as to what is legal and what is not. Now, the legalities of proving depredation have been removed along with the requirement of proving one’s designation as a landowner’s agent. Also, simply leasing a property now qualifies an individual to take feral swine without a hunting license. In fact, it doesn’t even matter if you are a non-resident traveling to Texas to harvest wild pigs. No one needs to purchase a hunting license to hunt wild pigs on private lands. The only scenario where a hunting license is needed is when hunting on Texas public lands.

https://wildpigs.nri.tamu.edu/news/2019/june/hunting-license-no-longer-required-to-hunt-wild-pigs-in-texas/

[LeftInTX]

29. Good. Glad they got rid of that hunting license requirement

They're an invasive specie!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

33. Yes they are.

In my home state of AZ, we have wild hogs and Javelinas, there is no license required to hunt the hogs, either on private or public lands, nor any bag limit or seasonal hunting time.

Javelinas are a different story, you have to have:

Resident Hunting License ($37)
Non-Resident License ($160)
Resident Draw-Tag ($38)
Non-Resident Draw-Tag ($115)

and the hunting season starts in Jan. thru the end of Feb.

[lastlib]

6. ...and that's just the legislature........

Now you know where the expression "go hog-wild" comes from.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. LOL.

that was a DUzy.

[DFW]

7. Oh. That.

I thought you were talking about the latest moves by the Republicans in the TX state legislature.....

[Elessar Zappa]

10. Good one!

[peggysue2]

18. Exactly!

This is an excellent metaphor for Republican politics, Texas and elsewhere:

Feral hogs on the run, moving in packs, tearing up everything they encounter.

Would make a good political ad. LOL

[dalton99a]

12. Bacon.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Wild hogs? That's "bacon with attitude".

[denbot]

14. Good movie..

I was fairly young but I do remember this scene.

[Princess Turandot]

19. ..."AP (Sept 2021): Wild boars hog limelight as they roam around Rome"....

That would be Rome Italy, not Rome NY:

[Torchlight]

27. It's an old story we get in Texas two or three times a year,

depending on which county a particular sounder is when they decide to reuse the story. Stories such as this pop up about every three years around these parts.

My guess is that as this one happened in Fort Bend county, a passel or two entered one of the fancier neighborhoods (Sugarland, maybe) and freaked out Chad and Karen McMansion over the damage to some gardens.

[LeftInTX]

34. Their terrain is expanding in San Antonio!

They are also dangerous and an invasive specie. Call them Karens or McMansions, but hogs tend to cause more problems to poorer communities. Lackland certainly isn't high society..LOL


https://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/ginormous-411-pound-feral-hog-caught-near-lackland-afb/Content?oid=22003365

A massive feral hog was captured near San Antonio, and the proof is pretty wild.

The 411-pound beast was reportedly trapped near the Gateway Hills Golf Course close to Lackland AFB last Thursday by members of Lone Star Trapping. The hog was reportedly tied alive and relocated from the area.


For context, the average adult feral hog weighs between 170 and 200 pounds. So this was one big piggy.

Wyatt Walton, part of the LST team, said the company has removed more than 3,000 feral hogs in the area since the company moved to San Antonio in 2016.

[Torchlight]

38. Feral hogs have been in Bexar co. for years.

They inhabit just about any area white tailed deer are in and have been roaming TX for almost 100 years at this point. Safe to say they're in every Texas county except the far western ones.

Again, to me at least, this is really old news. And this same story will pop up the next time they invade (how anthropomorphic) a fancy neighborhood.

[LeftInTX]

39. Lackland is not fancy....How would you like a 411 lb hog in your yard???

Are you familiar with Old Pearsall Rd, Valley High, Hidden Cove Indian Creek areas?

Tell me what you know about the McMansions and fancy neighborhoods near Lackland! I wanna know...

Please, tell me.

There is a reason people don't move there unless they can't afford anything else.

[Torchlight]

41. I'm from the area.

Born just outside Houston.

Childhood in Bexar county.

Lifelong resident of Texas.

I know about mcmansions in Sugarland.

I camp a lot in area w/ hogs.

I dunno why you're acting so defensive about this.

It's not a big deal. Unless you want it to be. But if it's a thing, it's your thing, not really a game I play into.

[LeftInTX]

42. I asked you about Lackland

You really don't seem to know the area or about the poverty over there.

[Torchlight]

44. I know about Texas poverty as well as Texas excess,

Again, I'm not sure why you're getting bent out of shape over this. If it's a big deal to you, enjoy and more power to you!

If you want to know something specifically about the area, real estate websites are a great tool for that. Other than that, I don't really know what you're after or why you're getting worked up about something so benign.

Again, this is a game I don't really waste my time on, so have a great evening, hope you find someone who thinks it's worth engaging you in, and all my best to you and yours!

[UTUSN]

35. Named: Abbutt, Cruz, Dan Patrick, etc.

[NickB79]

36. A perfectly valid reason to own an AR-15, IMO

We don't have wild hogs in Minnesota, yet. But there are herds in Canada, and there have been sporadic sightings in North Dakota and Wisconsin. It's just a matter of time before they establish here.

When they do start to pop up, I'll definitely invest in a big-bore AR upper, like a .350 Legend.

If you care about the environment, kill all the feral pigs you can.

[LeftInTX]

37. I know....

[LeftInTX]

40. Old Yeller - The Wild Hogs

&ab_channel=Sims3ForeverDude

[KY_EnviroGuy]

43. Please don't let them sprout wings and fly to Kentucky.

We've got enough on our plate right now and seem to be OK with our sausage and bacon supply.....

[48656c6c6f20]

45. Disappointed. Thought this was a Rafael Cruz story.