In Texas, we are all too familiar with wild hogs. They get into our yards and tear up and everything rummaging for grub worms. They are a menace and it’s very difficult to get rid of them.
For an Irving neighborhood, they’ve been seeing an issue with wild hogs rooting around their yards for too long. Now two neighbors have decided to team up and found a clever way to keep the porkers at bay.
Irving Neighbors Join Forces to Combat Wild Hogs
Irving neighbors Kathy Martin and Tom Caron have been seeing and recording wild hog activity in their neighborhood for a while now. Yards have been torn up, flower beds uprooted and other plants destroyed because of these swine wandering through their area. The two neighbors decided to erect what they call “The Baconator.”
They set up an electric fence in the front of their yard in the hopes that the shock would scare away the nuisances. As Caron told WFAA, the fence is on a timer…