A Texas man shot a 416-pound boar that he found ripping up his backyard and terrorizing the makeshift deer sanctuary he has on his land.
“My property lays between some populated areas and I try to maintain an environment like a sanctuary or nursery for the deer to raise fawns,” said Clowers to the Houston Chronicle.
Clowers will turn the giant hog into a trophy that he will hang at home. The meat was left out too long to be eaten.
“He was the big daddy,” Clowers said. “I called him the bush beast.”
There has been debate about how to control the population. Some have suggested poisoning them, but opponents have argued that the poisons will do more harm than good. Operations that make money off wild boar meat will be in danger. Hunters and meat processors can’t deal with pigs that have been poisoned.
The feral pigs plaguing Texas and other states are the progeny of domesticated pigs that were let loose in the wild or a cross between wild hogs brought in from Europe that bred with domesticated feral pigs in the United States, according to the Houston Chronicle.