Ofcorse as the law reads....if you mark a hog with a mark that is registerd in your name then don't you (by the letter of the law) own that hog?.... and subsequently own the responsiblity of controling it and can be held responsible for damage it may do to someones crops. But does that also mean you can sue a deer hunter for shooting your hog if it happens? Something to think about.
Waylon
The way I read this you could very well claim ownership of a hog and be subject to the rights AND responsibilities that come with that. Although like most everything else allot could be left up to interpretation.
Sec. 142.0021. OWNERSHIP OF EXOTIC WILDLIFE AND FOWL. A person may claim to be the owner of exotic livestock or exotic fowl under this chapter only if the animal is tagged, branded, banded, or marked in another conspicuous manner that can be read or identified from a long distance and that identifies the animal as being the property of the claimant.Steve here is something else to think about.....The way this below reads to me is......"The term" (exotic livestock) does not apply to a hog (which is a nonindigenous mammal) that is "located on publicily owned land". IE a state park.
"Exotic livestock" means grass-eating or plant-eating, single-hooved or cloven-hooved mammals that are not indigenous to this state and are known as ungulates, including animals from the swine, horse, tapir, rhinoceros, elephant, deer, and antelope families but not including a mammal defined by Section 63.001, Parks and Wildlife Code, as a game animal, or by Section 71.001, Parks and Wildlife Code, as a fur-bearing animal, or any other indigenous mammal regulated by the Parks and Wildlife Department as an endangered or threatened species. The term does not include a nonindigenous mammal located on publicly owned land.Waylon
