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May 11, 2006 1:46 PM

Renegade wild hogs captured using dogs and bare hands. Greg Whidden captures the hogs from a nature preserve where they're causing environmental damage.
posted by exogenous (16 comments total)

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posted by exogenous at 1:48 PM on May 11, 2006

Damned straight!
posted by Pressed Rat at 1:58 PM on May 11, 2006

A buddy of mine said that some hunters in Florida take their hogs live so that they can keep them in a pen for a month or so and fatten them up.
posted by 445supermag at 2:04 PM on May 11, 2006

They’re kind of like O.J. They’ll do anything to stay out of the pen

Hahhahahha

...wait, what?
posted by lumpenprole at 2:05 PM on May 11, 2006

Renegade wild hogs captured using dogs and bare hands.

There's nothing about that sentence I don't like.
posted by wigu at 2:12 PM on May 11, 2006

Spook tucked the guts back into Charley’s abdomen and used a surgical stapler to close the wound. Years ago, he sutured his dogs, but the stapler is quicker.

bocephus was right - a country boy WILL survive
posted by pyramid termite at 2:35 PM on May 11, 2006

Funny Post.

In Volterra Italy a couple years back I had boar that was knock-your-sock-off amazing. The care taker at the villa we stayed at hunted it on property. I don't usually eat pork (Damn that "Babe.") but I felt like I would be insulting the guy since he risked life and limb to get the thing for our dinner. Wow. Was it good.

A buddy of mine said that some hunters in Florida take their hogs live so that they can keep them in a pen for a month or so and fatten them up.

Yeah. A buddy of mine says he does the same thing with hitch hi... er... wait. Forget I said anything.
posted by tkchrist at 2:39 PM on May 11, 2006

Spook once nabbed a 473-pounder (hog). "I got him off a dairy," he says. "He was domestic, so he don’t count."

Pig Milk: The New White Drink!

Seriously though, wtf is a boar doing at a dairy?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 3:12 PM on May 11, 2006

Somebody tell Susan Orlean.
posted by Flashman at 4:10 PM on May 11, 2006

I bet you can squeal like a pig!

To be fair Ned Beatty did have a sweet ass.
posted by tkchrist at 5:16 PM on May 11, 2006

Carnal Knowledge: How I became a Tuscan butcher, by Bill Buford.

I wanted a pig.

My friend Paul sold pigs. He owned Violet Hill Farm and had a Saturday stand at the Greenmarket on Union Square. But Paul had only sucklings. I’d returned from Italy and didn’t want a suckling. I wanted a proper pig, a big one. Could Paul get me a big pig?...

For me, meat wasn’t a cause. I just believe people should know what they’re eating. At the Greenmarket, you overheard discussions about fertilizers and soils and how much freedom a chicken needs before its eggs are free-range. Wouldn’t it follow that you’d want to know your meat? I had brought home a freshly killed animal—better raised than anything I’d find at a store—and, in preparing it, I was hoping to rediscover old-fashioned ways of making food. This, I felt, could only be positive. But I was sure getting a lot of shit for it...

posted by languagehat at 5:22 PM on May 11, 2006

Great Post
posted by flummox at 5:34 PM on May 11, 2006

That is one creepy looking man.
posted by vodkadin at 5:56 PM on May 11, 2006

That's a pretty fascinating story. Thanks for passing it along...
posted by ph00dz at 12:59 AM on May 12, 2006

The dude looks like 5 miles of bad road, and has my complete respect on any number of levels.

Metafilter: know your meat.
posted by darkstar at 4:44 AM on May 12, 2006

Fascinating.
posted by cass at 6:32 AM on May 12, 2006