[buckalfa]

"I have friends in the area who are reporting that some of the wounds were up high on the horses shoulders. Which does not Match their explanation. I’m not so sure I’m buying this story."

Yeah, most horse owners in the Upstate and Tryon, NC area are calling bullsh*t on the findings.

[old curmudgeon]

If the horses were alive and standing, it could not have been hogs.

More likely panther/mountain lion wounds.

For some reason wildlife people have great resistance to acknowledging their presence.

By the way, I have a lot of experience with horses and almost every horse I have owned was really scared of hogs.

So no horse I ever owned would stand still for a hog attack. I think if in a pasture, the horse would run through the fence to get away if the attack persisted.

[old curmudgeon]

I should have made my reply conditional upon the report of a high bite being correct.

We will eventually find out.