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left-of-center2012

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Wed Sep 18, 2019, 06:55 PM Sep 2019

Large Feral Hog Is Corralled On Texas Golf Course

Wyatt Walton has been trapping feral hogs in Texas for years, but the one he caught on a San Antonio golf course Thursday was a whopper by any standard. The animal weighed 411 pounds. “Two-hundred pounds is a big hog,” Walton told HuffPost on Wednesday.

Walton and his Lone Star Trapping team used dogs to corral the animal at Gateway Hills Golf Course on Sept. 12. He then wrestled it to the ground and hog-tied it. The hog was taken to a processing plant. Walton kept its head “for a keepsake,” he said.

The state is trying to curb its feral hog population. Texas Parks & Wildlife considers them nuisance animals whose “rooting and trampling activity for food can damage agricultural crops, fields, and livestock feeding and watering facilities,” according to its site.

“They also destabilize wetland areas, springs, creeks and tanks by excessive rooting and wallowing. In addition to habitat destruction and alteration, hogs can destroy forestry plantings and damage trees.”



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wild-hog-texas-golf-course_n_5d826b7ae4b0849d47225819?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM_Q5T-JyGpFoa3jThP2cvCMUBg0epGk4IeBbXTZhz2YSNlg5qu_F3qoyATol_rWjFPIVjrrsWcMnnstCpyBLa-iRqZqNrgiQ7VtOpEccQ-L8FjRnoqWLVukEwZTGyxrNMD4duLIBxrnhpA27bKl8FPihsT2TpbKvIq-niolCD5a

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Large Feral Hog Is Corralled On Texas Golf Course (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2019 #1
Dayum. sheshe2 Sep 2019 #2
An insult to honest feral hogs everywhere. eom guillaumeb Sep 2019 #3
... sheshe2 Sep 2019 #5
...eating hamberders and guzzling Diet Cokes. TheCowsCameHome Sep 2019 #4
I thought it would be Trump. sinkingfeeling Sep 2019 #6
bring back wolves nt msongs Sep 2019 #7
+1 2naSalit Sep 2019 #10
Have you ever had prosciutto di cinghiale (wild hog prosiutto)? Incredibly delicious. fierywoman Sep 2019 #8
Sadly, these feral hogs are old and tough. The meat is inedible. dhol82 Sep 2019 #9
I'd like to see some video of this amazing feat of wrestling!!!! IADEMO2004 Sep 2019 #11
That's Some Pig! AnnieBW Sep 2019 #12
Pig out. Marcuse Sep 2019 #13

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dhol82

(9,352 posts)
9. Sadly, these feral hogs are old and tough. The meat is inedible.
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 08:18 PM
Sep 2019

They really are a menace to land and wildlife.
It would be nicer if they could be culled at a younger age.

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