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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I have a buddy down in FL that, along with several friends, hunts these feral hogs with AR-15’s equipped with expensive thermal scopes, for fun and profit. These animals are incredibly destructive to crops. Farmers hire them out and give them 25 bucks a head. They often get 50 or more in a night. His scope records video, and they are good shots. They stand line abreast and count down to fire,, for maximum surprise. Now they just started using a transmitting drone with thermal vision to help locate the herds. They do it at night, hopefully with no moon so the hogs don’t get spooked too early - and yes the thermal scopes can see in what we think of as total darkness.
This video isn’t his team but you get the idea. My favorite videos from my friend are the ones where a big hog takes a shot and gushes blood 6-10 feet in the air, but that’s just me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ribiDIkEv_s
Wife: Honey, why are you putting on track shoes for our hike into the wilderness?
Hubby: So I can run fast in case the wild boars come after us.
Wife: You’re going to outrun a pack of wild boars?
Hubby: No, all I have to do is outrun you...
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_a7ea47db-20b4-5ebd-96c7-44802e1554ea.html
How to control invasive wild boars? Make sausage
Yes, they can be dangerous.. I used to show pigs in 4-H some 60 years ago. They always had 2 big men with a wooden gate carried between them. If two pigs got to fighting the kids kept out of the way and let the men separate them. Chester White pigs were the worst in my experience and Durocs were the best. Ah those days of family farms were great..a real loss to the country how they have disappeared.
BTW we were taught that domestic pigs had trouble turning/ twisting their heads sideways so when you were in the pig pen NEVER fall down..as Dorothy did in the Wizard of Oz..Also NEVER put the toes of your boot through the fence rails..could lose a toe..
Ha...but I can outrun *him*, easy.
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My guess is that she tripped and hit her head. Then the hogs came later...scavenging.
And the only reaction a person can have with an attacking wild hog is to have a gun or get up a tree. Not all 59 year old women can do either well.
$5/lb live weight.
Them Good Ole Boys will take care of the problem.
Once when I was a teenager out squirrel hunting in Louisiana, a friend who was along on the hunt had to quickly climb a nearby oak tree to get away from a sow and her piglets. All he had was a .22 rifle, which he didn't trust to take down mama pig. I got a look at her from a distance, and I agree with his choice - that sow looked about the size of my dad's old riding lawnmower.
In a pinch, hopping up on the hood of your car should be enough to stay out of their reach. If the pigs are irate at you, they might linger for a while... but they suck at climbing.
Domestic pigs are socialized to interact with human herders, so there is probably a bit less actual danger involved as long as you are healthy and alert. The only cases I have ever read about where domestic pigs actually ate a person (and they ate all of them except for some bit of clothing)involved someone who was basically unconscious from a health event or dead (as in disposal of a murder victim).
That said, it is a little unnerving to know those oinkers are carnivores of opportunity if the circumstances are right.
OK, I’m betting on you!
There is a Hillbillyism that involves anyone asking you the question “Where is so-and-so?” to which the answer is “He went to sh^^ and the hogs ate ‘im.”
It appears here sometimes, as an abbreviated reply “Hogs ate ‘im.”
That’s how I know who here is one of us.
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Yep we are lousy with them in GA. They are unpredictable and bad tempered.
Ditto dat
Screw “laying traps”, declare open season.
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Open season... and offer bounties.
Anyone with a hunting license can take them at any time by any legal method, including artificial light, night vision and shooting from aircraft. There is no limit on the time or the number taken.
How much more "open" would you like the season to be?
From reports I have read, feral hogs are a worldwide problem.
Sad that my children never had the opportunity to spend time on or working a farm. Earned money put hay and straw up in the summers. Milked cows and spread manure. By the time I went to drivers ed, I drove tractors, 1 Ton trucks and front end loaders. Cars were easy. I miss those days.
Preferred milking cows to slopping hogs.
During the late 1970s, rabid raccoons were identified in Virginia and West Virginia after probable translocation of infected animals from the southeastern United States. Raccoon rabies spread throughout the region, with approximately 50,000 rabid raccoons diagnosed to date. During 2003, Tennessee became the twentieth affected state, and the enzootic area now stretches from eastern Canada to Florida
When I retired I bought a small farm to give my grandkids just a small hint of rural life..They love coming to see Grandpa now and perhaps they take something special back..Is that Chief Petty Officer ??
I am confident we could do the same thing to feral pigs, where doing so might be a good thing, unlike the loss of the carrier pigeon.
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