David Prendergast loved gardening at his home in the small Miramar development that borders the Everglades. Then he woke up one morning in early May to discover his grass destroyed and his plants devoured.
A family of wild hogs had visited his home, as they had those of other residents over the last several days, leaving lawns in various states of disarray and creating a sense of panic throughout the neighborhood, though Prendergast empathized with the animals.
“I guess they’re hungry,” he told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Friday, a couple of weeks after the scare had subsided. “And they’re displaced based on the development that’s going on in our area.”
Wild hogs, an invasive species first brought to Florida by…
