This is not genealogy, but a very interesting and current happening in Red River County. The message below is from Eddie Pryor to our high school e-mail group. Remember, Dimple Mall is at Dimple, but it is not a mall, but a convenient store that serves meals) I think anyone that reads it, will enjoy and be glad they did) Jim Giddens Paris, Tx Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: Wild Hogs Helen just sent me down to the Dimple Mall for some items she needed and I am glad she did. While I was there a friend of ours named Chris Quick drove up with 5 wild hogs he trapped last night. We have so many wild hogs now that ranchers and farmers will pay people to come in and trap them or shoot them. They are so destructive and dangerous that they want them done away with. Billy and I trapped more than 70 on one ranch several years ago and didn't make a dent. Anyway, Chris got to telling me about an experience he had last year concerning hogs. Him and 2 more guys were rounding up cattle on the ranch where Chris works. He said they had 6 good cow dogs. One he had paid $650.00 for and another he had paid $350.00 for. One man from Oklahoma (I can't remember his name) had a dog he had paid $1000.00 for and Chris said the dogs were all worth what they had paid for them. In other words they were good cow dogs. Now any cow dog worth his salt will run a wild hog but they didn't want their dogs on the hogs because they were too valuable as cow dogs. However, the dogs ran across a hot hog trail and took off. They followed after and soon caught up. The dogs had bayed the hog on a berry thicket and Chris said that first he didn't think the hog was very big but when they got closer he charged out of the thicket and they could see that he was huge. The dogs soon bayed him again in an old treetop and when they rode up he charged them this time. Chris said that Robin Bland was riding a big gray colt that was only about half broke and when the hog charged the horse broke in two and went to running and bucking. Robins rope fell down and as luck would have it the hog ran through it and the rope tightened around the hogs snout behind his tusks. Chris said you couldn't have made a prettier catch on purpose. By the time Robin got his horse under control Chris and the other man dismounted and ran up on foot to tie the hog down. As they were running up one of the dogs ran in to grab the hogs ears and even though he had a noose around his nose the hog disemboweled the dog before the could get him down. They finally got him stretched out and tied up and looked around for their other dogs. Chris said his $650.00 dog and the man from Oklahomas $1000.00 dog came up both dragging their innards. This hog that they didn't even want to run in the first place had in the space of a few minutes killed 3 very expensive stock dogs. Thats another reason people don't want them around. EP