Texas hunters have a love-hate relationship with the state’s 2.6 million feral hogs, complicating efforts to control the invasive swine that provide recreation and food for many hunters, who support an i industry built around hunting the hogs i that are responsible for significant economic and environmental damage. less Texas hunters have a love-hate relationship with the state’s 2.6 million feral hogs, complicating efforts to control the invasive swine that provide recreation and food for many hunters, who support an … more Feral hogs, as one veteran Texas wildlife scientist with decades of studying and battling to control the invasive swine describes them, are “four-legged fire ants.”