River Trails Homeowners Association

YAY!!!!!! They're back....keepthe developers and drillers out and they'll stay!

Be careful around the critters, I used to work as a biologist and need to remind people the  (1) feral swine (Sus scrofa) are wild and territorial  (2) do not feed or approach them, (3) do not allow children or pets in the same area.  (It is not only coyotes that have been responsible for lost pets in the neighborhood) and (4) if you see a female with piglets leave immediately.  

 I know of someone who was riding an ATV near his deer lease and was attacked by one and severely injured.  Another friend had a javelina (not technically swine but a pecary-- a native species) attack his Chevrole  pickup and butt it several times.    (Feral swine are the offspring of abandoned farm animals and will  revert back to a phenotype with tusks and woolly hair in a short period of time).

Kind of like the Razorbacks football team..  Just Joking...  I lived in Arkansas for 4 years, I can say that

I actually was coming home from work one morning, when they first starting clearing the area, I was travelling North on Precinct Line and one darted out hauling butt right before the park area. I slammed on my brakes and he ran right into the driver's side of my BMW an kept going to the other side of the field. I was afraid to see the damage, but when I got home I couldn't open the driver's door at all. Since then I'm scared sh#tless to drive back there day or not, but I have to because it's the closest way to 30.