Hog Heaven

A good friend of mine and coworker also told me he set his hog trap over the weekend. I had talked to him a couple of weeks ago and he had caught a hog that went somewhere around 50 lbs. Now if you've trapped or shot hogs, you'd know that's just right for cooking. So this morning he (Rob) tells me he set his trap again and if he gets anything he'd let me know. As I'm riding around in my district trying to stay awake Elliott (another coworker) calls me and says Rob has a hog in the trap and for me to give him a call. Now I'm awake......... So I give Rob a call and sure enough he's got a hog in the trap, and he thinks it's somewhere around 150 lbs. So we drive out to his property and of course I'm still in my uniform so I change into clothes I don't mind getting dirty.

As I'm changing I'll have to admit as I stood outside there in the woods amongst the cedar trees, I was thinking, "what if a hog comes walking around from the tree". It would be hard to run since my shoes were off. Hhhmmmm.....Ok, I'll jump in the truck and hopefully Rob can run fast. So I finish changing and we take a short walk to where the cage is. As we approach the cage there he is, and he's upset. I thought I heard sounds of someone grinding their teeth. The first thing that crossed my mind was when my brother in law and his kids and I went to the coast. I won't mention names but as the kids were asleep in the van and Mark and I fished, I kept hearing something, and started looking around the van and in the van. Mark could see I was a little puzzled and he asked what are you looking for. I told him to listen to that noise and that's when I found out there was a chipmunk sleeping in my van. Actually it was someone grinding their teeth, but I won't mention names.

Anyway, back to the story, so as we walked to the trap very slowly, this hog was upset and he was chomping his teeth. Oh and one other thing, he was bigger than we thought. So Rob pops him and we attempt to drag this dude out of that trap. My back is still hurting. I think this dude is close to the 200 lbs club. Then there's the chompers in his pie hole. As we kept attempting to drag him out of trap, his teeth, yeah the ones hanging outside of his lip, kept hanging on the wire floor and he wouldn't budge. Rob had to get in the trap and keep his head straight so the anchors hanging from his mouth wouldn't hang up on the wire floor. We finally got it out and after cleaning up this hog and taking pictures we quartered him up and he now has a new home, .......................in my freezer.

Thanks Rob for letting me stock my freezer. By the way folks as you can see from the sticker on Robs truck he is a taxidermist and does a pretty good job. The picture of the raccoon on one of my earlier posts is something he did for me. At the present time it sits on the shelf next to my television.

I got somemore pictures from Rob and decided to throw in another picture with Rob in it. It's a good thing I put his picture in also. With me in the picture I look bigger than the hog, but with him in it the hog looks bigger, and in case you're wondering, yes it's the same hog. Some kind of optical illusion I guess.