Edmond Couple Fed Up With Feral Pigs Problem

Jerry and Margaret Gilmore live on a peaceful ten acres out by Lake Arcadia where deer and wild turkeys are frequent visitors. But there is one critter here who is most certainly not welcome.

“You can see several places scattered right around here where they messed around last night,” explained Jerry Gilmore as he pointed to the holes feral hogs dug in his back yard.

“There’s at least 20 of them,” he estimated.

Tuesday night, the hogs ventured to within feet of the house. But the real damage is about a hundred yards away.

“It is a mess down there,” he said.

And he’s right. The hogs have been burrowing for a little over a week.

“It looked like a golf course, it looked like a fairway. It don’t look like a fairway now.”

A neighbor managed to catch a couple pictures with a night vision camera. But besides that there's little they can do.

“There’s a law against shooting in the city,” explained Jerry.  

And animal control can't help.

“City doesn’t do pigs, they just don’t do pigs.”

But to just let the pigs continue to destroy their peace and peace of mind, Jerry and Margaret said that's a lot of Hogwash.

“Somebody has to be responsible for these things, somebody has to get these things out of here. It’s ridiculous.”

News 9 did some checking around and Wildlife Services said they can help the Gilmore’s or anyone else who has a feral hog problem.