Message #190004

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Yes hogs belong to the land owner. You must have land owners permission to remove them. But wild hogs are not domestic animals. Domestic animals are the only animals you can protect. The dog must be imminent threat to a domestic animal or a real person to kill the dog. If the farmer has domestic pigs and your dogs bay one then he can shoot them but not wild pigs. The pig is owned by the land owner it is currently on. So if your dogs start after a hog and the hog crosses a property line you have to call the dogs off. You can remove your dog but not the hog without the land owners permission. But it is not domestic. The difference about the hog belonging to the land owner is unlike deer. Deer belong to the State of Texas. If you build a high fence the State of Texas can go in and remove the deer. It happened recently. But the State of Texas can't go on your property and remove wild hogs. So you can fence and raise the best wild hogs all day long and the state treats them as property but if they cross the fence too bad.