hog-dogging

n. 1. a (blood) sport in which trained dogs corner (wild) pigs; 2. showing off; hot-dogging. Subjects: English, United States, Animals, Insects, & Birds, Sports & Recreation

Editorial Note: Though both are often called hog-dogging, some participants make a distinction between hog-baying, in which the dogs are only permitted to howl, bark, and bay to keep the hogs in check, and hog-dogging, in which the dogs are permitted to fight and bite the hogs. The former activity is usually part of a hog dog rodeo and the latter is not. Etymological Note: The two 1995 citations (from the same journalist) and the second 1999 citation probably illustrate a form of hot-dog ‘to show off; to make ostenatious displays of behavior’ and have no relation to the sport hog-dogging.

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Citations: 1994 Ron Wiggins Palm Beach Post (Florida) (May 19) “Hog Hunting Rodeos Are For The Dogs” p. 1D: Now I have, second hand, a story on people who sic dogs on captured wild hogs, chasing them around a pasture and biting them into submission. This is no joke. Hog dogging rodeos are for real and they’re happening throughout rural Florida. 1995 Bill Connors Tulsa World (Okla.) (Mar. 2) “Bud’s Favorites at Moment of Truth” p. S1: Richardson’s previous group of outstanding players who inspired this hostility might have responded more to Richardson’s liking than his current players. Oliver Miller and Todd Day, with blatant taunting and hog-dogging, made it easy for opposing fans to dislike Arkansas. They reveled and played lights out when confronted with such hostility. 1995 Bill Connors Tulsa World (Okla.) (July 25) “Skill, Passion Make Irvin Leader at Dallas” p. S1: Michael Irvin was being Michael Irvin. That is, hog-dogging, charming, leading. 1999 John W. Gonzalez Houston Chronicle (Texas) (May 11) “Time runs out for hundreds of bills left pending in House committees” p. 1: Among the dead and dying ideas are a lower sales tax rate, approval for state-run casinos, a ban of hog-dogging and the option for juries to sentence a murderer to life without parole. [1999 [Pippa McKenna] Usenet: alt.sports.football.pro.sf-49ers (Nov. 28) “Re: Team of the Nineties”: Big eared, hog-dogging, high-stepping, arrogant, overrated cornerbacks need not apply.] 2000 Robert Anderson Ice Age (Oct. 20) p. 90: He was the only one who ever spoke to her—the others hovered with crossed arms and chain gold hogdogging the available light. 2004 Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post (Mar. 29) “A Squealing Time Hog-Dogging at Uncle Earl’s; At La. Event and Others Across South, It’s Hounds Against Boars” p. A3: A hog-dogging event seemed like a natural, and the inaugural Uncle Earl’s in 1995 coincided with a burst of hog-dog trials across the South, a phenomenon that has grown into a circuit of bawling hounds. 2004 Arizona Republic (Dec. 17) “Husband and wife busted in bloody sport involving dogs, hogs”: Authorities arrested a Cave Creek couple Friday on animal-abuse charges over a bloody sport known as “hog dogging,” in which bull terriers are released in an arena area to chase down wild boars.

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I had no idea human beings especially in this “Civilized”?? country would stoop to this. These people are really sick. What cruelty. Too bad they can’t take their turn in the ring and find out what it’s like to be the pig. It is a bit surreal to me to see people so out of touch with other living things. If there is a problem with ferrel pigs they should put them down humanely but there is no excuse for the horrible disgusting practice.

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