Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Nov 28, 2006 10:57:04 GMT -5
I remember reading this story last week..These things are getting closer and closer..
Police pursue pesky porker
By DIANA WIRES
dwires@tmnews.com
MITCHELL — Baby Doll, Boo Boo and Sugar got quite a workout Tuesday night while running in their pasture to get away from a 400-pound wild hog.
The horses had steam coming off of them this morning after running most of the night in their three- to four-acre pasture on Juliet Lane. They weren’t injured.
Carolyn Brown knew there was a problem with her horses Tuesday and asked her husband, Clark Brown, to check on them.
“We live in the country, and I was coming back from my mother’s yesterday afternoon,” Carolyn Brown said. “The horses were just staring ahead, and I looked to see what they were looking at. I looked on the road, and it looked like a big black bear.”
After Clark investigated, they called the Lawrence County Police Department, which sent officers to check on the situation. They chased the hog out of the pasture, but it returned sometime during the night and scared the horses.
“You could hear them just stomping and running around,” Carolyn Brown said. “One horse did go through a fence, but it was an in-pasture fence … and (the horse) didn’t get hurt.”
When Clark Brown checked on the horses this morning, the hog was in the pasture again, and steam was rolling off the horses.
LCPD Animal Control Officer Roland Stockton returned and killed the wild hog, which he estimated weighed 400 pounds and had tusks. It was given to a neighboring Amish family. “It was just out there rooting in the ground. …,” Stockton said. “I just wanted to remedy the problem, because it was just wearing the horses down. In this case, I was more concerned about the owner’s livestock.”
Stockton said calls involving wild hogs are rare. The Browns weren’t the first to report seeing a hog near Yockey Road Tuesday.
Donald Livingston usually sees deer and other wildlife in the backyard of his Southridge home, but saw an all black hog on Tuesday.
“I looked out the kitchen window, and did a double take,” he said. “It was walking across the back yard. It was smelling and looking things over. It wasn’t bothering anything. I called my wife, and had her look. She was like me, quite surprised.”
Donald Livingston believes this one, however, was someone’s pet. They aren’t sure whether it is the same hog.
“It was just meandering around,” he said. “You’d talk to it, and its tail would just flop and carry around. It would just look at you and listen. … My wife called to report it, thinking somebody might be looking for it.”
As for the Browns, Carolyn is glad the ordeal is finished.
“I am glad because they’re settled down now,” she said. “But being so hot constantly and with the cold air, I’m going to call the vet and ask if they will be (OK).”
Police pursue pesky porker
By DIANA WIRES
dwires@tmnews.com
MITCHELL — Baby Doll, Boo Boo and Sugar got quite a workout Tuesday night while running in their pasture to get away from a 400-pound wild hog.
The horses had steam coming off of them this morning after running most of the night in their three- to four-acre pasture on Juliet Lane. They weren’t injured.
Carolyn Brown knew there was a problem with her horses Tuesday and asked her husband, Clark Brown, to check on them.
“We live in the country, and I was coming back from my mother’s yesterday afternoon,” Carolyn Brown said. “The horses were just staring ahead, and I looked to see what they were looking at. I looked on the road, and it looked like a big black bear.”
After Clark investigated, they called the Lawrence County Police Department, which sent officers to check on the situation. They chased the hog out of the pasture, but it returned sometime during the night and scared the horses.
“You could hear them just stomping and running around,” Carolyn Brown said. “One horse did go through a fence, but it was an in-pasture fence … and (the horse) didn’t get hurt.”
When Clark Brown checked on the horses this morning, the hog was in the pasture again, and steam was rolling off the horses.
LCPD Animal Control Officer Roland Stockton returned and killed the wild hog, which he estimated weighed 400 pounds and had tusks. It was given to a neighboring Amish family. “It was just out there rooting in the ground. …,” Stockton said. “I just wanted to remedy the problem, because it was just wearing the horses down. In this case, I was more concerned about the owner’s livestock.”
Stockton said calls involving wild hogs are rare. The Browns weren’t the first to report seeing a hog near Yockey Road Tuesday.
Donald Livingston usually sees deer and other wildlife in the backyard of his Southridge home, but saw an all black hog on Tuesday.
“I looked out the kitchen window, and did a double take,” he said. “It was walking across the back yard. It was smelling and looking things over. It wasn’t bothering anything. I called my wife, and had her look. She was like me, quite surprised.”
Donald Livingston believes this one, however, was someone’s pet. They aren’t sure whether it is the same hog.
“It was just meandering around,” he said. “You’d talk to it, and its tail would just flop and carry around. It would just look at you and listen. … My wife called to report it, thinking somebody might be looking for it.”
As for the Browns, Carolyn is glad the ordeal is finished.
“I am glad because they’re settled down now,” she said. “But being so hot constantly and with the cold air, I’m going to call the vet and ask if they will be (OK).”