re: #119 Patricia Kayden

Based on the YouTube videos I’ve seen, the locals think they’re cute and don’t want them to be killed. That will change if they start hurting humans, I suspect.

I have a pond here on the property. Maybe I could bring in a clan of these hippos to help control the feral hog population. What could go wrong?

Hmmm…… How about a dryland Hippo mutation, possibly engineered by nefarious science geeks in the employ of Soros?
Can you imagine North Texas swarming with thousands of ill-tempered rogue hippos? No doubt our well regulated militia would deploy for hippo shooting parties. Given their record against feral hogs, though, I don’t think the super-hippos would have much to worry about.