Farmers: 'Monster Pig' Not a Wild Hog, But Was Their Pet Pig 'Fred'

FoxNews ^ | June 1st, 2007 | AP

[stainlessbanner]

Somebody had a post to outdoorlife or something that dispelled the myth. A domestic pig might look like a wild hog in the woods.

All the reports I read about the Alabama boys hunt say "if the reports are correct"...

[Hot Tabasco]

You shot my pet pig!!!

[aft_lizard]

I want to hear Borden’s view. It actually could be that the pig escaped from his breeding area that Borden had for him. Either way the ultimate demise for the pig was to be hunted(if i read what the first owners said was correct, breeding then hunted).

[Vision]

I agree, maybe he escaped but they got him back and later sold him. I didn’t see that because Fred was their pet, and who sells their pet to be hunted? I used to be a serious bowhunter and I know from talking to Texas bowhunters that wild pigs don’t get this big usually.

[eyedigress]

Your right about the moral of this issue.

While Rhonda Blissitt was somewhat in the dark about the potential demise of her pet, Phil Blissitt said he was under the understanding that it would breed with other female pigs and then "probably be hunted."

"We were told that it was a feral hog," Mike Stone said, "and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog."

[RightWhale]

The hog jumped his forelegs onto the top of the railing and got stuck and panicked. We were concerned with possible injury to the animal, it was a blue-ribbon quality; it never came close to breaking out, but the pen should have been a couple feet higher, no question.

[Don Carlos]

Sooo, if the pig was a farm animal, does that make the pork chops good eatin?

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t like canned hunts, especially ones of semi-domesticated animals.

I don't either........I would rather spend 4 days in Kansas during pheasant season walking fields all day long and end up empty handed than to go to a "pheasant farm" which are kinda popular here in Michigan just so I can shoot one.

[Born to Conserve]

I think it’s creepy to stand around with high powered rifles while a spoiled kid plinks at the animal for hours. Un sporting. I wish the pig had given those “hunters” something to remember with its tusks.

[kaboom]

Someone might also want to take this kid to the range once in a while, or get him a weapon that he can aim.

fired upon 16 times by Stone, who struck the animal nearly a half-dozen times

The pig wasn't the broadside of a barn, but close.

[LibKill]

This ain't right.

Reminds me of that canned hunt where the mighty nimrod shot a tiger that had just been released from a cage.

Appalling.

[fish hawk]

Too bad Fred is gone. I heard that the VIEW was going to replace Rosie with him.

[ol' hoghead]

a .50-caliber pistol

He used a revolver, not a pistol. There is a difference: not that a reporter would know or care. T/C Contender is a type of pistol, as is a Colt 1911. A Colt SAA is a type of revolver

[Who is John Galt?]

This claim raises an interesting theoretical point: if some dumb-@ss lets a hog the size of a small horse escape from his 'property' (were you depending on those surveyor-drawn property lines to keep your hog corraled, or what?), does the dumb-@ss own the sausage when his porker is rightfully terminated, or does the gent who was defending his property (and popped the pig with a half-inch slug or two or four or...) own the sausage?

That's a h@ll of a lot of sausage - the question is definitely important!

;>)

[spanalot]

arent all revolvers pistols?

Anyways, I have hunted Md quite a bit and they release domestic pigs all the time and they do turn wild real quick.

They never claimed that this pig was nothing but a feral pig which is just as dangerous as a wild boar after a few weeks in the wild.

And 20,000 acres is not a canned hunt.

However I do have a major problem with the choice of firearm. One should never hunt unless they are capable of doing a one shot kill. The .50 caliber sounds big but it simply did not have the muzzle force to do the job.

Shamefull.

[fishergirl]

Durn! I feel sorry for the pig AND the boy.

[aft_lizard]

Yeah me too. The kid has been dealing with hate mail all week from lefty loons and now he finds out that the wild boar isnt wild.

[stop_fascism]

Apologies to the Incredible String Band:

Big TFred's dead , he was a great old pig
He'd eat most anything, never wore a wig
Now he's gone like snow on the water, good bye
He was getting old so the farmer said
"Sold him to the butcher just to make a little bread"
Now he's gone like snow on the water, don't cry
TFred may be a moo cow next time around
Giving sweet milk to the people in the town
He'll be whatever he will choose on air or sea or ground
The sows are busy with the piglets fine
I'd put them in the forest now if they were mine
cause I know they like acorns and I don't like bacon

[Joe 6-pack]

Did I ever tell you about my Johnny Cash tattoo?

[fishergirl]

I know!! I went to his website and was appalled at some of the comments on the negative side! How in the world can anyone send something like that to a child! Unbelievable!