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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Did you hear the biologists’ report?
If they killed 75% of all the hogs in one night, a year later, the numbers would be right back up.
They’re working on a hog-specific poison.
Hope they find it.
That poor woman.
...Well except when they are a football team.
Obligatory drum set rif
History is full of stories like these. Feral hogs have always been dangerous animals.
What is wrong with Houston? Are they waiting for the politicians to deal with this problem?
Seems easy enough to solve: Hog season.
In my area, you read about the “tragedy” of pioneers who came here eradicating all the dangerous predators.
Well, duh.
So, they’re busy bringing them back now, because “Gaia”.
Or some such touchy-feely BS.
Which part of Texas is free of ferals? I've shot them along the Red River, on the south side of the state line, when they came down to the bank about dawn. These killers were near Houston.
In the Big Bend?, or the Panhandle?
From watching the video, it’s almost an exercise in futility.
There’s just too many of them.
Horror show proportions.
WTF?? Why not just kill the bastards. Traps? Give me an effin break.
What is wrong with Houston?
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Locusts relocated from California, Oregon, Washington State, Virginia, New York, etc.
Everywhere leftists have destroyed, the leftists that managed to make bank on that destruction have fled to new lands to feed upon and destroy. Austin was their initial landing zone, but the locusts have swarmed to Dallas and Houston too.
Are people in that area familiar with wild hogs? Did she know how to react?
Now that’s a low blow right there. Nothing that a new coach can’t remedy.
They should get Norvell from Memphis.
[What is wrong with Houston? Are they waiting for the politicians to deal with this problem?]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahuac,_Texas
Horrible...but that is rare...I read every day how pit bulls kill or maim ppl or animals.....and yet ppl still get them....
Maybe the state should hire 200 professional hunters, full time. Many airports have teams of professional hunters to keep the deer off the runways.
“They’ve already dragged bears, eastern wolves [”coyotes”] and mountain lions here.”
Be thankful they can’t find a Tyrannous Rex.
I believe Texas has declared open season. The problem lies in where you can shoot safely. The suburbs makes response tough. Feral hogs are a very destructive and large problem.
I consider wild boars to be almost as dangerous as mountain lions.
You won't see them in the cities proper, or even the suburbs. However, once you are just a little ways out of Houston, away from urban sprawl, they are all over.
If the traps are the big ones, designed right, they’ll bait and catch the whole family group at once. Hunting them individually catches some, but also scatters them, and some will inevitably escape to reproduce. Hogs weren’t a problem in the 70s, 80s, or 90s in my part of Missouri; but in the 90s hog hunting became a ‘thing’ and hunting clubs released hogs onto their properties which of course immediately escaped. Then followed s short period of relative peace while the population built, then it seemed all the sudden formerly crystal clear springs became hog wallows, and farm plots were destroyed by eating and rooting, and wild turkey nests obliterated, very sad. The spread of ‘feed plot’ hunting for deer also had the unfortunate side effect of helping hogs thrive even under pressure.
It’s wild boar season all the time in Texas.
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