Suburban Redneck

The pigs were back this evening: a momma and her two little ones. Here’s the best picture I could get of the mother.
The two little ones were brown, but the sow was a full-blown black-haired razorback.

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No, I’m not talking about the movie. I’m talking about feral pigs.
In Southeast Texas, where I grew up, we call them javelinas. In much of the south, they’re called razorbacks. They were popular among hunters because the quality of the meat as well as the fact that they could be pretty dangerous in a fight.
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Our neighbors are rather quiet and unassuming. You see them and their kids all over the neighborhood, sometimes even sleeping underneath the trees in the back of the house. Here’s one of them inspecting our car.
In Texas, we would have suspected that she would dress out to only about 40lbs. of meat, and thus [...]

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