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2005
wounds. By the time we are finished doctoring the
animals we look like we have committed murder.
Our hands are covered with blood that streaks all
the way up to our elbows. Our pants are covered
with a mixture of mud and blood from kneeling on
the ground with the pig, and there are even signs of
it on our faces from where we have wiped our
sweat.
We return to the woods to retrieve the cap-
tured hog, and place him in his assigned section in
the trailer. Only one partition separates him from
the dogs that hunted him down. The ride home is
usually pretty quiet; the dogs are worn out from the
excursion. They only occasionally bark when the
wind shifts and they smell the pig that they have
already captured. The cab is usually filled with
conversation about the hunt. How hard each dog
worked, which one actually found the pig, and how
colossal the pig actually was. We look forward to
showing off our prize, and getting some food in out
stomachs. It has been a long, hard day and we are
drained.
We arrive back at the house and place the
pig in its new home with over 300 of the other hogs
that we have caught and released in the back acre-
age. We keep each pig that we catch because we
also guide hunts occasionally on the weekends.
When the hunters come, we let them choose their
own hog. We then release that pig in the next 60
acres and they help us catch him again. He scram-
bles to get away from us, glad I'm sure to be alive.
Our work is not done yet. Each dog is checked for
injuries once more and returned to his pen to eat
and sleep off the soreness from a hard day's work.
They enjoy what they do and are justly rewarded72
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