Real Hogs and Little Dogs

Noodling around the internet, I found this picture of a boar taken on the Suwannee River in Florida. This monster weighed in at 1086 pounds and is as big as a buffalo.



This pig is mixture of Russian Board and domestic pig -- it's the domestic pig blood that made him get so huge. Boars of this size are very rare, and they are inedible as their glands taint the meat -- a reason domestic boars are gelded when young.



Most pig dogs are cross-bred pit bulls, but some pig dog packs find a use for a small terrier to bolt hogs out of thick brush. These dogs are smaller than the pitbulls, but are almost always too large to work underground quarry. Me, I'm sticking to underground game.



For an amusing story about terriers hunting wild pigs in France, see >> Cut to La Chasse