Residents meet with officials to deal with pig problem
SUN PHOTO BY BRENDA BARBOSA
Jimmy Kazlauskas, better known as "Jimmy The Trapper," explains how he traps wild hogs, during a meeting held Thursday by the Section 20 Property Owners Association. He urged residents not to go near traps once set because hogs have been known to break out of them. "Even the piglets," he said. "They're like little tanks."
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Hogs are very smart, trappers say, sometimes getting all the way to the door of a trap without going through. Pictured here is the damage done by hogs to property owners in Charlotte County.
CHARLOTTE COUNTY — Jimmy Kazlauskas, better known as “Jimmy the Trapper,” will do just about anything to catch a wild hog. He’s been known to use all kinds of traps and bait, and a few unorthodox ways, to get the nuisance pigs out of people’s yards.
Recently he used “predator pee” — a concoction of mountain lion urine that has proven to be an effective deterrent — around a community in Deep Creek where hogs are wreaking havoc on private properties, causing thousands of dollars in damage and much fear among homeowners, who recently learned some of the hogs are infested with worms.
