Get me Woo!
Posted on 11/26/2019 11:06:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Christine Rollins, 59, was attacked in Anahuac, east of Houston, outside a home where she worked as a caregiver to an elderly woman.
Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne told reporters on Monday: "In my 35 years I will tell you it's one of the worst things I've ever seen."
"No doubt in my mind that it was multiple animals and we can tell that from the different sizes of the bites," said Sheriff Hawthorne, adding that the homeowner's dogs appear to have chased away the hogs before Rollins' body was discovered.
The sheriff said neighbours had recently complained about rampant feral hogs, and officials have since laid traps for them.
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A Cuban friend of mine told me that survive in CUba they used to hunt them with bare hands. THey would jump on their back and slide his arms underneath that of the hog’s forelegs and grab the hears or back of their neck with the hands, pulling their fore legs appart sideways. ANd then they would knife their throat.
In self defense , for dogs, grabbing the hind legs and flinging them by the hind legs is what is advised.
LOL!
I’ve said it often, if we had warmer winters, they’d stock Big Pool with alligators, crocodiles, piranha and sharks.
And I’m not even half joking.
OTOH, a T Rex would make short work of the other [former] apex predators, so....
*Raises hand, waving it wildly*
The article says I have to first outrun them, before I climb the tree.
Yeah, no.
I’d be pig chow.
Dang.
Your friend must have a lot of arms.
Get me Woo!
I work on the south side of San Antonio (right off of Loop 410) and I see packs of at least half a dozen wild hogs almost every day. They graze right on the side of the road.
My grandfather raised pigs, we were not allowed on the fence anywhere near the hog pens. Got a lesson in how mean they are when I watched my grandpa go into the pen (armed) to remove a sow who gave birth and was killed and cannibalized along with her piglets. He shot the boar responsible on the spot. He said once pigs cannibalize another hog like that they develop a taste for it and will continue to kill other pigs especially sows giving birth. He said if a pig every taste human flesh the herd has to be culled.
Scary animals, but wild ones taste so good, at least around here.
Two year ago our group took two feral hogs during deer season. Some of the best pork I every tasted. To be fair though they get a lot of corn around here. The meat was darker and tasted almost like a beef.
Hawaiian trapppers do the same, but sell them to resorts for the luau's they constantly put on for tourists.
Yikes!!!!
Terrifying story.
The traps they put up *were* large, probably big enough for 50 or so pigs.
You noted that as well?
Huh.
Someone mentioned the wild hogs carrying trichinosis but I reckon if it’s cooked very well, it would be fine.
They’ve showed up in southern Missouri. I grew up in the NW corner of the state, my uncle owns a farm up there. I live in Idaho now. I was visiting there recently. I advised him to shoot them on sight, I carry back there and have a rifle with me everywhere I drive in farm country. The cold may be all that keeps them in the southern part of the country. They breed like rabbits, people need to destroy these things like rats. They are as destructive as anything I can think of.
Yeah.
I got a bit dizzy reading it.
Inspector Gadget or Doc Oc, maybe?
;)
I think Texas and Oklahoma both are open season on wild hogs.
I do my hog hunting just southeast of Calaveras Lake. I’ve never failed to take one every time I go.
I have a friend that’s a trapper for the state of Texas. He hunts them with dogs but when they get bad the state leases a helicopter and they shoot them with 12 ga shotguns but there’s only maybe 6 or 8 for the entire state.
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