Florida man, dog survive encounter with wild boar that crashed through glass door, refused to leave home

Every morning, 82-year-old Edward Wells sends a message to his daughter.

“I text her and tell her I’m alive,” Wells said.

Then, with an Ensure in one hand, he settles in for an afternoon of jigsaw puzzles on his iPad.

So, when his daughter got a phone call on Thursday, she knew something was up.

“I need to get the hell over there,” Stacy Wells said. “Life got crazy!”

At first, Edward thought his home was being bombed.

But it turned out his quiet evening had been shattered by an unexpected visitor — a 300-pound wild boar that smashed through his sliding glass door.

“He busted through a whole glass door,” Stacy said.

The boar attacked the dog, Bailey, and then made itself at home and refused to leave.

“For about half an hour, 45 minutes, the pig just stood there,” Edward said.

Eventually, Edward called Lee County deputies, who rushed in to help, but the boar put up a fight.

Body camera video shows deputies face-to-face with the boar, trying their best to wrangle it again and again.

“Good for them guys, man. I wouldn’t want to be doing that,” Edward said.

Eventually, the boar escaped.

Bailey is doing just fine after some stitches, and Ed has gone back to business as usual.

Authorities say the boar is still on the loose, and they’re warning residents to keep their distance if they spot it.