Pig hunts

ABC News seems to have discovered the Brush Country’s feral hogs, declaring them rampant in Texas.

"A million dangerous pigs are roaming Texas soil, challenging farmers and devouring their crops."

The million in the lede becomes millions in the sub head. Now that’s excitement, if innumerant.

Well, they’re pretty much confined to the South Texas brush, where hunting services like Brush Country Bowhunting charge no kill fees on hogs, or, for that matter deer, javelinas (a smaller feral hog cousin) "& other varmints." As in Missouri, where hogs also abound, hunting them requires no permit in Texas.

But the real problem, which is pretty much statewide, is white-tail deer, which not only eat crops, but wander suburban lawns eating ornamental plants. Hey, ABC, do an expose on the deer problem, which not only plagues Texas but even New Jersey, way up there in your own backyard.

No? Ugly hogs are expendable, but Bambi is too sweet? That’s why we have a deer problem.