Message #422009

[Silverton Boar Dogs]

Field dressed hogs can't LEGALLY be donated to feed the hungry.

Live hogs are sold, and that money goes to directly fund lobbying efforts on the behalf of all dog hunters.

I think that is a very worthy cause to support and I am very proud to have been on the BOD when this was started. Last year the hunters entered in the TDHA contest raised just over $5,000 for direct lobbying on their behalf.

Y'all keep steeping around the problem with barrs. There are two problems with them in a contest.

1. They are going to be heavier because of their altered condition.

2. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not there have been people who have been barring hogs and moving them to honey holes for the contests.

This movement of hogs barrs or otherwise is against the law.

Y'all have been upset with TDHA, when you should be upset with the hunters who were stocking their honey holes with barrs just for the contests.