Posted on 08/08/2025 7:21:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Get a bow. Need about 300fps with 425 or so grain arrows. In the head. I don’t hunt them.
Now hogs,hogs are a nuisance.
No. A community can (in TX anyway) can petition the county commissioners court to then get with the state to remove problem animal(s). Lengthy/$.
Or get with your local game warden and S.O. and (Mano y mano) and find a solution there.
Guarantee your local officials will suggest a 20 Guage. Unless you are near one of those ‘cities’
Luckily, I don’t live where alligators do. When I was growing up in Florida, you could waterski all day without seeing one. Fat chance of that now!
A few months ago, my niece had one in her front yard. She has two kids, 6 and 4. They were playing outside. The alligator came right up to her garage, and fortunately, her husband got the children inside safely.
It was about 2 blocks away (as the crow flies) from where there was an alligator “incident” when a dog was killed by a gator just weeks before that one showed up in her yard. Of course, the dog-eating one was killed, but that second one must’ve been kin looking for a meal, too.
That’s too much for me.
I think you are safe. They are very docile (inafaggot English way.)
They will clamp on a cow or calf drinking. They are dangerous. Stay in your house.
Luckily, I don’t live where alligators do.——————
Well shit. You are a bot.
That would not be a good thing.
You don’t try to make a species extinct just because you are afraid of it-you learn to stay out of the animal’s way, unless it is hunting season and you have a license. Or don’t live-or leave your pets out-near an area where there are any wild animals. Buy a condo in a city. Nature needs to be balanced to work right-that is why there are game wardens to keep fools from killing every wild animal in sight...
So far, I haven’t seen or even heard of alligators in the middle of the corn and soybean fields in Indiana.
Oh, and while there may be bot FReepers around, I’m not one of them.
I’m curious-do y’all have any wild areas or apex predators in Indiana-bears, mountain lions-even coyotes? We have coyotes, mountain lions and feral hogs in our rural areas-and we are seeing black bears make a comeback at last-after ignorant people hunted them to near extinction, moving from the Big Bend area to here in the West part of the Hill country. We are used to those animals out here in the boonies-most people don’t freak out...
F Do you know where you are?
Would be better to dump it in the Rio Grande. It would act as a deterrent to Illegal Aliens.
We only have coyotes of those you’ve mentioned, and if one (or more) is on my property and I feel threatened, I am allowed to shoot them without a license. Any time of year.
We also have raccoons, groundhogs, white tailed deer, possums, foxes, and skunks.
No feral hogs, no bears, no mountain lions, though I do see an occasional bobcat.
Look, I’m pretty much a nature lover who happens to think that alligators are out of control in Florida, where I grew up, and someday would consider moving back to. It looks less and less likely I’ll do that though.
I promise you, I won’t bother with Texas. Been there done that.
You can shoot coyotes coming onto your property to get your chickens, livestock and pets. There are a lot of coyotes-they started multiplying too much after people killed off the native red wolves early in the 20th century-they got replaced by the more numerous aggressive, clever coyote. Nature hates a vacuum and will fill it with another species-there are even coyotes in Alaska...
My family came to Texas and NM from Spain by way of Mexico before 1800. I have no desire to live anywhere else but Texas-I do have cousins who live in Florida-in the Miami area-my husband and I visited them many times-it is a beautiful state. They’ve told me the threat that game wardens and the fish and game people are worried about are the non-native pythons and anacondas that have bred from pets that were released by owners who no longer wanted them, and now there are so many they are out of control.
They are supposedly decimating and crowding out the native snakes and their prey-they also get into yards and eat pets. That is why the fish and game people want them out of there. I’ll bet a big anaconda or python would crush and eat a small person, too-I would not like to meet one outside a zoo...
I’m very glad it is too cold for anacondas and pythons here-thankfully, if you are caught releasing a non-native/exotic species of animal into the wild here, there is a huge fine...
Oh, bless your heart! I’m so sorry to have confused you!
Yes, of course I know where I come from, where I have been, and where I am currently! I have a bit of an idea of where I’m going, but of course, with future events, that might change.
I’m a native Floridian (northern Florida, part of the South), spent time in Georgia, Texas, back to Georgia, then to Ohio, and now I live in the Hoosier state. Oh, and I’ve been all over this country, and have ventured into the countries that border them briefly.
Does that help your confusion?
I have cousins in East Texas. My uncle was from Gainesville, where our family homestead is, and my aunt was from Duncan, Oklahoma. Sometime after my uncle served in WWII, they settled in Tyler and raised their family there.
I spent 3 years in Texas, as a young adult making my way in the professional world. One in Houston and two in the DFW area. I know it’s a special place to Texans, but it never felt like home to me. Lone Star State prevailed and I just didn’t “take”. That’s ok. To each his own.
I think it is all about what appeals to each person-most of my family is in W Texas and the western hill country-I grew up on my family’s small ranch in W Texas. I live in the W hill country now and have for the last 25 years-I have never felt at home in any city, even though I lived in SA when I was in college and for many years after with my 1st husband-we both worked in the city, but lived as far out in the burbs as we could get-he was a ranch kid, too and did not like cities.
We spent a lot of our weekends hunting, canoeing on the river, etc and camping in Big Bend, the Guadalupe mtn state park and also the mountains of NM, where my husband had family, especially when our cub was a kid...
I am basically a loner, so-I like the clean air, the quiet, hiking in the woods, the animals-including the mountain lions, which actually don’t bother anyone-you just should never sneak around, jog, or ride a bike where there are mountain lions-you will look like prey to them-same for bears. I like the dark night skies of the country-it is home to me. I do not like Dallas or Houston at all-the noise and smells are unpleasant-and the humidity of Houston is stifling compared to the cooler, drier air out here. Of course, it does get colder in the Winter here and it does snow-as you said-to each his own...
You sound a lot like me, though I have a northern Florida bent (which is where I’m from. It has stayed with me, even hough I do t live there anymore). I’m good with hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking, etc. Not a city girl by any means. Rural is more my style. Maybe that’s part of why I was uncomfortable in Texas, living and working in Houston and the Dallas area. The older I am, the more I retreat to the woods.
I have been to the Guadalupe mountains and the Ozarks with my family and my uncle’s family back in the 70’s. Very pretty. We were accomplished tent campers back in the day. Even though it’s been a dozen years since I’ve tent-camped, I’m sure my muscle memory would kick in.
I have no experience with bears or mountain lions. I’m sure they would both frighten me.
Around here, coyotes travel in packs, and when you have one, there are more around. I’m cognizant of that. I leave them alone, but, if one or more of them surrounded a pet on my property, I’d try to scare them off first with noise. If that didn’t stop them, I’m afraid that using a gun would be my next best option.
I remember there was an alligator in Lake Worth in the 2010s.
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