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Oh yeah, put em up!

Put em up!!

Said the cowardly lion as danced around with his dukes up!

Now, I'm off to head down the yellow brick road...

(I miss you Bert Lahr!)

Flintknapper,

Yikes!

I wasn't knocking him, but doing a bit of tongue in cheek regarding your rather lengthy and I think excellent post.

Now, he'll probably post a micro-novella just to shut us both up!

I wait (cringing) to see it.

(hhmmm, or not, as he's a sometime contrarian, unlike you or me...)

Flintknapper,

I like your well reasoned post.

I think you broke TAM's record for lengthiest.

TAM,

I agree with what you said as a reasonable means of letting nature take care of pig remains.

My objection is when knuckleheads obviously abandon the carcasses with no consideration for the stink and disgusting appearances near residences that nature will not have a chance to dispose.

I see this frequently enough for me to believe there's a subset of inconsiderate slob/pig killers out there and if caught dumping remains ought to be fined or jailed for their outrageous and contemptible acts.

Flintknapper,

Is he small enough to eat?

Lately, on my bike rides well out in the country, I've come across hog remains where they only harvested the hams, and left the rest to rot, kinda sad.

They (who ever they are) didn't bother to skin or gut them, just cut off the hams and left the remains on the side of the road.

I've seen this ugly spectacle roughly a half dozen times on different rides in different places off in the ditch/side of country roads.

Part of me understands this approach as one whose killed, gutted, skinned, and butchered these critters. It's a hard, miserable job, so yeah, harvesting the hams only and perhaps the back straps is understandable. The waste though is painful to witness. Plus, why not simply bury the remains rather than leave the balance of the carcass to stink and create an ugly scene for the public to bear witness to?

Handling hogs this way makes hog killers look like ignoramuses.