Feral hogs have exploded in population across the southern United States. Feral hogs are causing massive destruction to farmland. The conservative estimate to the amount of damage caused by hogs in the United States is 1.5 billion dollars annually (“Damage by Pigs”). They also carry a lot of diseases and spread them to farm animals and humans as well. Wild hogs are also very aggressive and attack possibly killing pets, livestock, and newborn deer. We need to stop the spread of feral hogs by euthanizing them every way possible!

Wild hogs cause farmers many headaches. Feral hogs will root up entire fields after they are planted. This forces the farmers to replant, costing them more money. They may also root up turn roads possibly injuring someone driving by. Feral hogs are also known for being attracted to the smell of afterbirth and then eating newborn calves, goats, and sheep. The diseases hogs transfer on to livestock can be deadly. Feral hogs carry 45 very contagious parasites and diseases. Hogs are basically immune to nearly all diseases, but they transfer them on to other animals. …show more content…
They carry a number of diseases that are contagious by humans including: Leptospirosis, Brucellosis, E. coli, Salmonellosis, Toxoplasmosis, and rabies are just a few. In Texas alone the hog population increases by up to 21 percent every year (Timmons). Feral hogs have two litters a year at any given time producing up to as much a thirteen piglets (“Controlling Feral Hog Damage”). As the hog population increases the number of attacks on humans increases. There have been a reported 412 attacks on humans, 70 percent of which have happened between the years 2000-2012 (Mayer