820-pound hog shot in Alabama may have escaped neighbor's pen
SAMSON, Ala. -- An 820-pound hog that an Alabama man shot and killed in his front yard may have escaped from a pen on a nearby farm, the man's hog-raising neighbor said.
Trisha Garcia of Samson told AL.com one of her husband's boar hogs dug under the fence and went missing July 10, the day before a huge hog with tusk-like teeth wandered into Wade Seago's front yard about half a mile away.
"We were notified that our hog had escaped his pen on Monday," she said. "Then we saw on Facebook that Wade had shot a huge hog in his front yard. We didn't know at the time it was ours."
Seago said it took three shots from his .38-caliber handgun to kill the massive hog, which he later weighed on a scale at a peanut company. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says feral hogs cause more than $1.5 millions of dollars in damage each year across the United States.
Alabama law allows hunters to kill hogs without limit on private land.
The hog Seago shot had no ear tags, branding or other signs that it was a domestic animal, he said.
Garcia said she can't prove the huge hog that wandered onto Seago's property was hers, and she's not angry with her neighbor. "He had every right to kill it," she said. "If a hog that size was in my front yard, I'd have done the same thing."
