FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - Homeowners in the Riverstone subdivision near Sugar Land say wild pigs are devouring their lawns and landscaping.
"They just come in and look for food; they come with their snouts and tusks, and just rip this whole place up," said Ann Marie Schrock, whose yard has been hit nine times by the hungry hogs. "They ruin everything."
Schrock and her neighbors believe the pigs are coming onto their properties because nearby development is pushing them out of their habitat.
They say a fence originally built to keep wildlife out, is no longer working; the animals are able to burrow holes in the wire.
"We have pigs running roughshod over us, just tearing everything up," said homeowner, David King. "It's really bad."
Neighbors say they have been begging the Riverstone Homeowners Association to fix the fence, but say their pleas are being ignored.
In an e-mail to King, Riverstone's community manager said that the hog problem has been an issue for the past five years. The association has tried hiring hog hunters, but says it is impossible to manage wild animals.
"They just keep saying 'We don't govern wildlife,'" said King. "We are paying all this money, our property values are going down because the pigs are causing all this devastation, something has to be done."
