WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — Some Walton County neighbors are relieved after a deputy shot and killed a wild boar.
The say the animal charged at pets and even the deputy. The pets on one resident's property are OK after a big scare from the big boar.
Channel 2's Sophia Choi
homeowner Katherine Tanner, who did not want to show her face on camera.
got a picture of the powerful pig, all 160 pounds of him, from
"It would charge at you. And if it hadn’t been for the dog between me and it, you know, it could have got through our fence and then it was trying to get through the chain link fence from the neighbor’s house," she said.
The wild animal came in from the woods on Friday, and went after anything moving.
A neighbor shot the boar in the belly before Deputy Rock Podeszwa showed up. That’s when he says it charged at him.
He killed it with one shot.
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