RANDY BROWN has been fascinated with blackmouth curs ever since he read Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller as a kid. As he grew up and got into hog hunting, that fascination became an absolute passion. Brown ...

“Hog dog baying,” a variant in which the dog corners the other animal but does not attack it, is still legal. Uncle Earl’s Hog Dog Trials, a baying event held in Winnfield, ...

At a "hog-dog rodeo" - large crowds often assemble and even bet on dogs that are let loose on wild hogs. The vicious battles are a crime in South Carolina, but that wasn't always the case. Now, a ...

Hog-dog traditions, O'Bryan said, are rooted in Southern agricultural customs. Settlers often let their hogs run loose, he said. The animals ...

In hog baying, the goal is for a dog to corner a boar in two to four minutes. The dogs sometimes bite, but it counts against them in scoring. Advertisement.

As supporters of hog-dog baying readily admit, accidents do happen. Yet is that risk reason enough to ban the activity? Given my affection for meat, I always feel morally unqualified to tackle ...

Hog-dog fights typically match a pit bull terrier or bulldog against a wild boar in a pen for 60-second bouts. "It's a little known blood sport that's been around for 25 years," said John Goodwin ...

Recently I called the Jackson County Supervisors individually to express my disagreement that they actually voted 4 to 1 in favor of allowing hog-dog fighting in Vancleave. Although the four ...

The adult female dog, now named Bunny, was stuck 30 feet into an irrigation drain in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 26. She was rescued and treated for malnutrition and infections, but one of her ...