I personally have never seen or heard of a competion where multiple dogs were used on one hog. That is not acceptable in any way. My use of the word sport and that hog catching is a sport is in direct reference to the training of the dogs and the sport of hunting hogs with dogs.

The media is famous for misrepresenation and just plain wrong/incorrect information. Hog catching has been made out to be a brutal sport and I will say it can seem that way and is being banned as a sport while the hunting is still allowed. My point is for the hunting as the sport and the goal. It is legitimate in that it is necessary for the dogs to be trained for the hunting to be safe and effective.

The competition I went to a hog was used only once, and the whole endeavor lasted about 20-45 seconds and I never saw a single hog with an injury or blood. The dogs require training, and the competition atmosphere was originally used for training purposes and to title the dogs. The banning of the sport, the competition as it became and the abuse of the animals while calling it hog catching, I am fine with, it is the use of the hogs for training purposes and the use of the dogs in actual hunts that affects me. I consider hog hunting a sport, not a hog in a pen and multiple dogs or a hog in a pen to be a sport. That is training, regulation, rules, that isn't sport.

I've been talking about the use of hogs for training and for hunting - not for penning a dog with a boar and letting them have at.

I will modify my avatar, though that picture is an actual hunt and not a penned match. Those dogs are actually the ancestors/bloodline of a pup I am getting this year - that is why I chose the picture. I don't want to seem to be supporting the sport of penning a hog and a dog. I found a picture I like better anyways

What do you think of the new one?