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Date Posted: 07:38:43 04/12/04 Mon
Author: Jerry
Subject: Wild Hogs, Doc and Me

Doc, one of my female boerboels, and I had quite a week end. As some of you know, I live in the country, 20 or so miles west of Tulsa, Oklahoma. We have all kinds of critters on our place, raccoon, possums, skunks, deer, coyote, bobcat and now wild, feral hogs. For quite some time I have kept a 30 gallon barrel of corn down behind the house that I feed the deer with. This time of the year there is so much natural feed in the woods that corn is pretty much ignored. So, I hadn't been down there in a while. A a week or so ago I went for a walk down in that area with my new pup, Jack. I noticed that someone had passed through the area and had taken the lid off my corn barrel. Well, rain water had gotten into the barrel and 'soured' the corn. I moved the barrel over to the feeding area and just dumped the whole barrel out on the ground. A few days later 'we' were once again down in that area and noticed the corn was mostly gone, along with 'rooting' in the area. At the time I didn't place the obvious 'rooting' with hogs. I did notice through the week the dogs raising more of a 'fuss' than usual. The dogs were making even more of a fuss on Saturday morning. I've hunted wild hogs for many years, wild hogs have quite an odor.

That brings us to Doc and me this last Saturday morning. 'We' were over at the other house that I have been remodeling. After working there a while 'we' heard some unusual barking and talking back down behind our place. We went to the door and the noise was getting closer. We decided to investigate. Just as we were about to get to the edge of the woods we heard one of my neighbors trying to call her dog back to her. I looked up and three hogs come through the fence with this weenie dog right behind them. They seen me and stopped, then the weenie dog owner popped into sight and picked upe her weenie dog. I asked, really knowing they didn't, if the pigs belonged to her, (my neighbor). She, of course, replied that they did not. At that time I sent Doc into the pigs. I must admit that the term wild hog is a little misleading in that they were more like yearling pigs, around the 70 to 80 lb area. Wild, feral hogs have been spreading up from Texas and across from Missouri and Arkansas for many years now and inhabit much of the state.

When I sent Doc in, she went right in after the pigs as if she knew what she was supposed to do. As Doc went into the pigs she started what can best described as herding them into a small contained area (held them at bay). Of course I didn't have a camera with me to get any pics of that part of event. I asked the neighbor if she had ever eaten wild boar. She said no, she had never eaten wild boar, (most folks haven't). I told her to stand still and I headed back to the house to get a rifle. When I got back, Doc still had the pigs at bay. I insured 'all', but the pigs, were out of the line of fire and----------------------------------I spent the rest of the afternoon butchering three wild pigs. That was Doc an mine's exciting weekend.

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