Wild hogs-also known as feral hogs-are rooting, wallowing and rendering the grounds of of the city's Hillside Cemetery and the areas surrounding it.

From vandals to wild hogs, the City of Cuero is on the hunt yet again.

Wild hogs-also known as feral hogs-are creating havoc in the city's cemetery and even in the residential areas that surround it.

"It's gotten worse over the last few months," said Cuero's Interim City manager Raymie Zella. "We've started trying to trap them, but it's then that they're not cooperating and going into the traps is part of the problem."

By night, Zella said the hogs emerge from a large, privately owned pasture bordering the back of the cemetery, and each night traps are set in the pasture, in the cemetery, and in the yards of a majority of the residence around it.

However, the hogs are catching on, and no matter the number of traps. They're back each night to scrounge for more.

"When the drought was going on the cemetery was getting watered where everything else was dry, so it made a place for them to come and dig real easy," said Zella.

The hogs are leaving grave sites mangled, residential fences inadequate, and true evidence of their presence behind, but Zella says now that the case of the Christmas vandals is solved, they can unleash the police on the hogs.

"Being that the cemetery's in the city limits, they're the only ones that can legally fire, discharge a weapon," he said. "They are going to start going out at night and seeing what they can do to try and alleviate the problem."