old days

Them days and them kinda dogs are just about gone buddy, hardly anybody "manages" their hogs anymore, hogs that bayed like that have just about all but been eradicated around here, folks want to believe that by turning hogs back a loose that it causes them run harder witch is far from the truth, ask any old schooler or old timer and ask them how they controlled their hog population and I guarantee they won't say by sticking everything they caught, my wife's great grand father would use two cur dogs to bay With and a lassie type collie to catch with, my father in law tells me stories if Shen he was a boy catching, marking, and cutting hogs from sun up to sun down and you didn't dare touch another mans marked hog or mark a pig that was sucking a sow with somebody else's mark in it, he's got pictures from when his father witch would be my wife's grandfather in a hog drive here by the house many moons ago, when the river would get high it would push the hogs out of the swamp and into the hills and whomever saw them would pen them in their lot until the owner could come load them or drive them back to their place