I saw this last night. Strange. My thought was: 'At least they didn't eat her'. Jesus!

My first thought was that she died of some other cause, and the hogs found her and did try to consume her. The authorities need to look into this a little further. I pick Heart Attack and Murder as my first thoughts.....followed by Death by Feral Hog.

I've never had a feral hog make any aggressive action towards me; wounded or otherwise. I guess it could happen.

What Little I read last night said she bled out, so no heart attack.

Well, I'm going to wait for the autopsy on this one. Been around feral hogs most of my life, including being in deep canebrakes in the middle of large sounders, never felt threatened by hogs. Unless cornered, they do their best to get away from you.

Not saying this didn't happen, but it's a rare thing if true.

I agree with Kensco and hogfarmer----she fainted and cut herself and was unconscious and bleeding or else already dead. And the only aggressive moves I've seen out of hogs are when they are in a trap and come rushing at me across the trap. Out in the wild, they haul when they see or smell me--

Years ago, my brother-in-law’s brother had a heart attack while feeding his hogs. He was found quite a few hours later and the hogs had somewhat mutilated his body.

I’ve always heard hogs will try to eat just about anything.

I am like you guys. This is one I question.

I have killed well over 1,000 hogs in my life. I have only had one that scared me.

A couple of years ago a local guy who was managing trained hog dogs was attempting to pull one of his dogs off of a hog when the hog ripped his thigh with a tusk. It missed the femoral artery, but had it clipped the femoral such a wound could be quickly fatal if help was too far away.

When my grandfather's sheep flock got pink-eye, I had the job of finding any dead ones in the field. Wheelbarrow them back to the barnyard and throw them in a burning bottomless drum. When it was over and the drum was cool, my job was to put the carcass back in the wheelbarrow and move it to the hog pen, then dump the remains. It was stunning to watch the mayhem as the hogs devoured what was left of the sheep.

I figured someone close by was feeding feral hogs. Just like they do for squirrels, deer, bear, and even alligators! Lady had food but did not hand it out so the pigs took action. They knocked her down, she hit her head, then they chewed on her some. I have only had one stare me down! I think I blinded it with my light, my dog was close by, it ran and I happened to be in the way.

God rest her soul, a caregiver.

My father grew up on a farm in the panhandle of Texas. He told me they would go out hunting jack rabbits and those taken were fed to the hogs.
Like mentioned above, every wild hog I have had incident to encounter would run away immediately.
BTW: They are NOT tough to kill through those "bullet proof" shoulders. Makes good stories though. LOL

EZ

Bill, being A New Mexico buff, might find this read interesting. I have a book with the title "The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain" by A. M. Gibson. It is about the unsolved murder of Col. Fountain and his eight-year-old son, Henry, in 1896.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...rt_Jennings_Fountain

They were killed in the vicinity of Chalk Hill on their return home from Lincoln, New Mexico (via La Luz and Blazer's Mill).

I mention these murders here because the defendants were found "Not Guilty" even though circumstantial evidence was fairly damning. The reason being, the bodies were never found. (The reason given for the killing of the eight-year-old was that the defendants were well known by the child, and therefore he could not be left as a witness.)

With no bodies found, the defense claimed there was no "proof" of a murder. One witness claimed that the reason there were no bodies, was that they were taken to a nearby ranch and fed to the hogs.