{"id":101,"date":"2010-04-17T02:50:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2010-05-21T03:46:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:46:39","slug":"larder-is-filled-with-quail-by-hunting-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Larder Is Filled With Quail By Hunting Hog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America&#8217;s only hunting hog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And he comes home with his game bag filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, is the equal of any bird dog in Louisiiana as a hunter, says Gibson. He&#8217;s refused scores of large offers for the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While Betsy still was a suckling, a hunter shot the sow that was raising her. The other pigs in the litter died and Betsy was near death when Gibson found her and put her in his pocket.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Gibson had a bird dog that had lost her puppies. He placed the little pig in the dog&#8217;s care.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As the pig grew up, it&#8217;s foster-mother took it on hunting expeditions. Gibson was amazed to see the pig do its best to imitate its foster-mother when game was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Today when Betsy comes near covey her brisles stand straight up. She lifts her foot as a bird dog does. She tries to straighten the kink in her tail.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And quail dinners [in season] are never lacking at Gibson&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun and Gazette on August 12, 1922. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Frogmore, La. 12-When quail season rolls around, Colonel Tucker Gibson shoulders his shotgun and takes in leash Betsy, America&#8217;s only hunting hog. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And he comes home with his game bag filled. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Betsy, four-year-old offspring of a common southern razorback hog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,64],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}