{"id":1880,"date":"2011-09-12T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2011-09-12T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T16:20:07","slug":"north-central-texas-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"North Central Texas Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>I know<\/strong> most of the city-bread readers of this blog have a different idea what the Dallas Texas wildlife might be all about.\u00a0 The attached pictures show a considerably different type of wildlife a little farther west in north central Texas,\u00a0 near a tiny town named Cross Plains.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures were taken on motion detection cameras at feeding stations on a ranch located just several miles south of Cross Plains.\u00a0 (32\u00b0 0&#8217;54.31&#8243;N, \u00a099\u00b010&#8217;43.01&#8243;W,\u00a0 Front Gate)\u00a0 The ranch is owned by Mike Mazanec,\u00a0 a coworker who BTW\u00a0is the person who hired me over fourteen years ago when our company was named CSI. \u00a0I visited Mike&#8217;s ranch (a full section in size) about two months ago.\u00a0 I saw these hogs running in the daylight.<\/p>\n<p>These critters can be mean when threatened and have become quite a pest in all the southern states and are rapidly spreading north.\u00a0 They damage yards and crops with their rooting in the ground.\u00a0 Google for more information about wild hogs in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>If you are camping on the ground (tents) can you imagine a herd of these 400 pound critters paying you a visit in the middle of the night?\u00a0 No, \u00a0they are not out to eat you, \u00a0but they can do serious harm trying to get past you if they feel threatened. \u00a0Ha, \u00a0just when you were feeling safe about staying out of the water\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know most of the city-bread readers of this blog have a different idea what the Dallas Texas wildlife might be all about.\u00a0 The attached pictures show a considerably different type of wildlife a little farther west in north central Texas,\u00a0 near a tiny town named Cross Plains. The pictures were taken on motion detection cameras at feeding stations on a ranch located just several miles south of Cross Plains.\u00a0 (32\u00b0 0&#8217;54.31&#8243;N, \u00a099\u00b010&#8217;43.01&#8243;W,\u00a0 Front Gate)\u00a0&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}