People criticize the state of Texas for a lot of things. Unfortunately, we learned of another ongoing travesty in our home state that should know better. Uncle Jesse writes in a family email-
The State of Texas was exercising its Ferrel Hog Eradication Program near our ranch yesterday evening using a helicopter. If you’ve never seen something like that before it’s very disturbing. They chase them out of the thickets with the helicopter and then shoot them with shot guns from the helicopter. The downed animals are then left to lay and waste. Surely, there are better ways to manage the animals and better ways to dispose of them.
We’re not activists for animal rights. If anything, this hurts my chances at bagging a hog when we go home to visit. State of Texas, quit being stupid and leave the shooting of hogs to those who wish to eat them.
That just seems bizarre to me. Here in Canada if the deer or moose population is too large they just change the number of hunting licenses that are issued. And seriously, who could possibly believe that Texas of all places doesn’t have enough hunters to manage its hog population? This mostly reminds me of the eradication of the buffalo during the settlement of the west back in the day.
It may actually be a problem for them to find enough hunters to kill these hogs. This is beef country, and you probably have to publicize a hell of a lot better than they have been to get hunters to come kill hogs. But the publicity campaign would probably be a lot cheaper than the chopper.