Hog catching Machine? - Page 1

This is what came to mind when I read one of the ABD breeders on this board bragging about a "hog catching machine".  It's as brutal as bull baiting and is being outlawed in numerous states throughout the South.  
 
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(MOBILE, Ala.)  December 20- Richard Landers and his wife, Shina, were both arrested in the Birmingham area where authorities say they were involved in a Jefferson County based website that promoted and organized hog/dog rodeos. 

It's evidence that the rest of the state and the nation are now learning what NBC 15 first exposed nearly a year ago when we went undercover into a hog/dog rodeo in Clarke County, Alabama.  NBC 15's undercover cameras caught dogs released into a pen to attack hogs. People cheered at the sidelines as the bloody bouts were timed. The owners of the fastest dogs won prizes. 

The Birmingham area arrests were just part of nationwide federal investigation. Friday, near Phoenix, Arizona, 32 Russian Boars and 17 dogs were confiscated.  James Curry and his wife, Jodi, now face multiple counts of animal cruelty. Authorities say the animals are run down and malnourished.

In South Carolina, Arthur Parker and two others were charged with felony animal fighting. Authorities say Parker is the top hog/dog rodeo sponsor in the nation. The Humane Society of the U-S says Parker and the others arrested in the four states are connected to an organization called the "International Catchdog Association". 

After NBC-15 exposed the bloodsport in February, the operator, Johnny Hayes, was arrested and convicted of animal cruelty. Our story also got the attention of the Humane Society of the United States, who called for a ban of the practice.  Monday, Ann Chynoweth with the Humane Society told NBC-15's Mike Rush, "NBC 15's investigation this past year was instrumental in helping to ignite the interest in this cruel issue of hog/dog fighting and it has sparked not only interest in our membership of the HSUS but also of law enforcement and that got the ball rolling and I think led to this unprecedented movement to go after the leaders of hog/dog activity nationwide." 

Federal autorities became involved, Chynoweth said, because members of the "International Catchdog Association" videotaped the hog/dog fights and sold the videotapes either on the internet or the fights. 

In all, the Humane Society tells NBC 15 eight people were arrested and more arrest warrents are in the process of being served.

Lawmakers successfully used NBC 15's report to push for a law banning hog/dog rodeos in Louisiana.

Like I said .. human beings are pretty craptastic on one level or another .. some excell at being jerks on all levels as the hog catchers demonstrate.  The worst of the bunch is a video tape from China in which a tiger is allowed to chase down a live cow in a concrete pen for spectators.  The tiger was raised in captivity and does not know how to kill properly so the tiger knocks the cow down and eats her alive while the crowd cheers.  Plenty of animal cruelty in the USA with industrial farms but making a sport of it is way over the top.

Well this articale is about as old as the hills, and everyone arrested later had charges dropped or were found not guilty. I actually know a few of these people, and the HSUS really spun an ugly tail. Much of it not true. While i have never used dog to catch hog, supported catch comps or been involved in any catch sports. The simple fact is it's totally legal to use dog to catch wild pig, it's legal to train your own dogs to catch pigs, it's not legal to hold catch comps. Hogs are dangerous feral animals, that will eat your pets, attack you and spread dieases. They are not native and need to be controlled.
I've just the other day see a video compliation of police and military dog catching people. You know what? Not one single dog had an OUT!!!!! Freaking cops and military need to by a box of break sticks from the hog dog people to get their shepherds teeth off the suspects.
You might not like, i might not like it but hogs must be controlled. And shooting them is not always an option. You can't fire guns in residential neighborhoods. But you can run dogs.
Fry

 

Hog-Dog Fighting Charges Against Former Animal Control Director Dropped

Here we have again a case of someone having their life turned completely upside down only to be found not guilty or have the charges all dropped. See the article I am also crossposting today regarding the money driving this hysteria and the seizures. Following the money is often a big indicator of the real purpose of these movements. I hope she files suit against the county for restitution for the loss of her livelihood and reputation on these bogus charges.

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Hog-Dog Fighting Charges Against Former Animal Control Director Dropped

August 14, 2008
 

 

CHESTER, S.C. -- Vicky Stultz feels like she can finally start her life over again. Animal fighting charges against her have been dropped.

"It's been a rough four years." Stultz was Chester County's animal control director until January of 2005. A month earlier in December she was charged with misconduct in office and animal fighting and baiting. Stultz was arrested after attending what's known as a hog-dogging event. That's where bulldogs chase wild hogs, and pin them down. The hogs have had their tusks removed.

In December of 2004 police raided a wooded area near Richburg, and later seized 95 dogs and 15 hogs from the property of Arthur Parker Senior and Mary Luther. They were charged with running the event.

Stultz said animal control had dispatched her out there several times to observe the events. "I never saw any laws being broken," she said.

Prosecutors called hog-dogging a "vicious blood sport" and took Parker and Luther to trial in 2005. The couple defended the practice as part of a catch-dog training association that trains dogs to catch and hold wild hogs, not a cruel fight.

Parker and Luther were acquitted, but the charges against Stultz were not dropped until just weeks ago. Stultz just received the official notice about her case this week.

“I was like, thank God, we finally made it through this," she said.

Her attorney Leland Greeley said the same. "I'm just glad this is now done," he said.

Thursday afternoon we asked the attorney general's office about why it took so long to drop the charges against Stultz after they lost the case against parker and Luther.

Spokesman Mark Plowden said he still believes Stultz broke the law, but they couldn't prove it in court.

"I think the law was violated," Plowden said, "But we knew that parts of that law needed to be cleaned up."

Plowden said following the failure to convict Parker and Luther the attorney general's office pushed the legislature to toughen the state's animal fighting laws. They did, and current state law specifically makes hog-dogging a five-year felony.

Plowden says the law in 2004 was simply too vague Since Stultz would have to be tried under the old law; the charges against her were finally dropped.

Stultz said after losing her job and facing depression she relied on her children to get her through. "They paid my house payment for me, and kept my life going," she said.

She's not sure what she'll do now, but wants to leave the state for a while. Something she couldn't do for the last four years out of jail on bond.

"I will get out of town for a while now that I legally can," she said. "That's four years of my life that were taken from me. I'll never get those Four years back."

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/17194027/detail.html

Fact is, laws are being passed to stop the abuse. Hog-dog rodeos, as refered to in the article, have nothing to do with catching wild hogs for controlling populations. They are blood sport. As for the articles being old, doesn't change the facts.

The funny thing about this post is that Joan was trying to buy wild hogs off of some of these same people several years ago...talk about pot and kettle.  lol

Midge, wrong! I was talking to Richard about buying some pigs to raise for food, and told him the best pork I ever had was feral pigs, caught and fed before butcher. He volunteered a friend of his who raised feral hogs in Fl, but it was against the law to sell or transport or some such, according to Richard. So, where you get the notion that I was "trying to buy wild hogs off these same people several years ago" , more than implicates you. I bought two sows and both their litters from an old man who was having to sell all his livestock because of poor health and his advanced age. They happened to be cross bred pigs, not "wild".

So looks like you are both the pot and the kettle.

Okay, Joan,  ;-) 

How would you know who I talked to about buying pigs anyway?

LMFAO!