Texas woman killed by feral hogs outside home in ‘unbelievably tragic’ incident

[Graybeard]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-woman-killed-by-feral-hogs-outside-home-in-unbelievably-tragic-incident

Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.


Christine Rollins cared for an elderly couple at their home in the small town of Anahuac.

"Unbelievably tragic. This is a very rare incident, just what little research we have found less than six of these have been reported in the nation," Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.

Hawthorne said Monday the 84-year-old woman she cared for was waiting for Rollins to arrive on Sunday. The woman went outside and found the 59-year-old Rollins in the front yard between her car and the front door.

Hawthorne says Rollins had a severe head wound and several other injuries consistent with an animal bite. The coroner in neighboring Jefferson County ruled Monday that Rollins bled to death after an attack by feral hogs. Texas’ KATU2 reported that the medical examiner said the cause of death was “exsanguination due to feral hog assault.


Anahuac is just over 40 miles east of Houston.

[Bob Riebe]

Now these are feral domestic hogs, but about twenty years ago some were floating the idea of bring true wild hogs from Russia into Southern, Minn.Now imagine a feral dometic hog breeding with a true wild hog that gets a lot bigger.

[Ranger99]

who knows what may be roaming around ?
there's lots of exotics that have gotten out of
these h.f. ranches all over the state, and some
that have gone belly up and they just threw
the gates open. i know of one emu ranch that
did that, and a couple near my place that let
a bunch of those white spotted deer (axis?)
loose, and they're now a breeding free ranging
population all over the countryside. some of the
neighbors have seen them crossing the road in
the wee hours while they were driving to work.
used to be a h.f. ranch N.E. of here that trapped
hogs and let them roam the ranch and you went
in and hunted them and paid by the pound.
they just turned them out the same way when
they closed up