Homeowners all over Texas suburbs have certainly felt that way since seeing their well-manicured lawns uprooted and sprinkler systems destroyed by packs of hungry wild hogs – beasts that once caused problems mainly for Texas farmers and ranchers.

“I think people expect this to be a rural problem,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said Thursday in Irving, where the city has captured nearly 250 feral hogs since October when they first were discovered roaming around. “This shows that in rural and urban Texas … the lines that divide us are fewer and fewer.”

For years wild hogs have been a menace in rural areas by shredding crop fields, eating calves and damaging fruit trees – even breaking through barbed-wire fences, said Texas Farm Bureau spokesman Gene Hall. They also wreck ecosystems by wallowing in riverbeds and streams. “They can do more damage than a bulldozer,” Hall said.

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