San Ramon received national spotlight this week after news that a crew of wild and surprisingly large pigs were (and still are) tearing up lawns in the Henry Ranch neighborhood.
"What are usually well-manicured lawns looks like a rototiller passed through," NBC's Jodi Hernandez said in a newscast yesterday.
The news also appeared in the New York Daily News and other NBC newscasts across the country.
"The relationship between California residents and wild pigs could be described as 'love/hate.' That is, hunters love them while everyone else seems to hate them," said an article on the state's Department of Fish and Game website.
Wild pigs in California are actually a hybrid between a wild boar and feral pig.
The swine crossed paths in the last century, when the domestic pigs brought by Europeans in the 1700s mixed with wild boar that was brought to Monterey County by other Europeans in the 1920s.
The hogs aren't only after insects and grubs embedded in lush yards. They also eat roots, fungus and other landscape features, according to the department website.
The NBC report only mentioned the problem occurring in the city's Henry Ranch neighborhood.
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