Wild hogs in Brownwood
 

Hello all,

First post from a long time Pennecamp lurker here.
We were on our way home from City Fire Brownwood last night at 10p.m.
About a mile up Buena Vista heading for 466A a BIG PIG, my estimate 200+
lbs,, ran from our left in front of us. We hit it square in the front at 15-20 mph. Only minor damage to our Toyota Avalon and thankfully, no airbag deploy. Piggy shook itself off and ran away. Our message as we sit here counting out blessings is simply BE CAREFUL.

There was a dead hog on 441 in Fruitland Park Sat AM...HUGE!! Must have come out of the Lake Griffin area. Glad you are ok. Those things can quickly do a lot of damage.

Oh,oh hope someone is picking up their poop!!!

Bacon! :D


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Heck with the car, glad you all are OK. Sounds to me like you hit a boar, and they get huge! Probably won't see them around here much longer once the housing develops some more. They don't like residential areas.

A word of caution, if you hit one, and it does not run off, do not get out of the vehicle. Call the police to have it removed from the road. Boars are dangerous, and if they are hurt or have piglets around, they are more dangerous.

Interesting animal though...really neat to watch from a safe distance.

Katie

Welcome to Florida! You'll find we have all kinds of friendly creatures you might run into. Wild hogs, Coyotes, water moccasins...love bugs.... just to name a few

...do not forget the roving pack of cougars at Katie Belle's.

Couple out that way are training pigs to be "comfort animals" so they can bring them into all the local restaurants! ;)

HaHa

I'd be scared to come across a wild boar when driving my golf cart home from Brownwood!

Just hope it doesn't happen!

Check out this link. It did actually happen albeit several years ago, could happen again.

Faa: Unruly Pig Was Ok Usairways Was Right To Allow Sow - Philly.com

capecodbob: Very funny. However, I would be wary taking a pig to a resaturant. it would be like taking your little dog to the waters edge of Lake Sumter.

They do get into residential areas. They would sleep in and root up the sand traps in Guam when I lived there. In Hawaii, they come down from the mountains and root up peoples back yards. I have seen them while hiking in the mountains and always carry a long bamboo staff for protection, just in case. These are not farm animals and are very dangerous.

A couple years ago in CA I was driving home from work in a heavy rainstorm. Driving thru a steep canyon area a very large feral pig was hit by a car after it apparently slipped down the wet hillside onto the two lane highway.

The pig was dragging its hind legs and attacking cars as they tried to get around it - not a happy piggy. Read in the paper the next day that the police had to shoot it to clear the highway.

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So let me get this straight--Snakes, Coyotes, Pigs and Cougars--In The Villages? Is it safe to drive late at night in the golf cart? Geesh-- I'm getting worried!!