Message #72048

[Monteria]

There is no question that Paul is correct on all counts.

If it were me though, Id try to get a little creative...... Your not going to get a conviction but you might be able to get a little satisfaction from pressing for an animal cruelty charge. If he could beat your dog to death with a pipe, he could have just as easily caught her and tied her out. Id be arguing that as soon as he laid a hand on the dog, it no longer presented a danger to domestic stock, certainly could not have been "attacking it, and at that point he just killed it to be cruel. Id be strummin on heart strings with the DA and local news.

Another thing I would do, if you are absolutely certain that the pigs are domestic crossed with wild, is involve the TAHC and file a report against him. I'm sure that if I did enough digging, I could find several statutes against breeding domestic to wild stock and releasing them into the wild, improper containment of trapped feral hogs, etc. It would not provide direct resolution but it may provide you with some satisfaction and what goes around comes around so....

Steve