@dystopian
four and a half million who voted for Ted Cruz last month?

I hear they can be very smart. Like Arnold on Green Acres. But they are an ecological and agricultural disaster in many areas. I have heard estimates of 6 million feral hogs in Texas, I suspect it is at least double that. We see 50 or more every evening at dusk heading toward the river. They destroy the understory and litter (duff) layer. I don't know how any ground-nesting birds make it nowadays. They remove all the snakes, including rattlers. We see dozens of litters a year, and each one I name the babies the same: Taco, burrito, tamale, flauta, enchilada, etc. These are what my friend from the SF bay area called free-range organic, I call them mulberry and pecan fed and delicious. You have to be hog-fenced here. A guy told me they will come in your house and eat with you. I told him not in my house, we would have that one for dinner.

@dystopian
All three seen last week. One in a harvested field. At first I thought it was a dog, but couldn't figure out what a dog would be eating in a corn field, off the ground like that. As I drove past, I realized it was a young hog, the size of a large pit bull. The other two were digging around in a ditch not far from houses, slightly smaller than the first one. All seen about 9:00 am, in bright sun.

Weird!

The first one I ever saw was dead in a ditch and was literally the size of a VW Beetle (or the '91 Honda Civic I was driving at the time). My first thought was that it was a dead bear on the side of the highway, but immediately laughed out loud at myself because Southeast Texas doesn't have bears. I looked more closely on my way back home a short time later, and was floored by the sheer size.

I've never eaten the meat, but know that people trap them. One man I used to work with had connections in San Antonio who'd come pick them up for slaughter.

I hear they can be very smart. Like Arnold on Green Acres. But they are an ecological and agricultural disaster in many areas. I have heard estimates of 6 million feral hogs in Texas, I suspect it is at least double that. We see 50 or more every evening at dusk heading toward the river. They destroy the understory and litter (duff) layer. I don't know how any ground-nesting birds make it nowadays. They remove all the snakes, including rattlers. We see dozens of litters a year, and each one I name the babies the same: Taco, burrito, tamale, flauta, enchilada, etc. These are what my friend from the SF bay area called free-range organic, I call them mulberry and pecan fed and delicious. You have to be hog-fenced here. A guy told me they will come in your house and eat with you. I told him not in my house, we would have that one for dinner.

@yellopig
the post will be supporting you!