I hate to say it, but our boys have gone to the hogs.

As most of my readers know, we have been trapping hogs the last few weeks and having quite a lot of fun including our two boys in it. However the experience has now taken over Bo’s mind. He no longer wants to do anything but go and check the hog trap, or as he calls it “hoggin”, as in “let’s go hoggin, dada”. Also, he doesn’t want to talk about anything but hoggin.

“How was school today, Bo?” I ask.

“Let’s go hoggin” he replies. “There’s another HHHOOOGGG in the trap. And I need to shoooot him.”

“No boy, we had to pull the trap because of turkey season”, I say.

“No, there’s another hog in the trap. We have to go take care of him and make him in to meat”, he says.

and on and on. That is the sum of all conversations in our house now. And yesterday, he looked over at our rat terrier sunning on the floor and said, “the hog is dead. Let’s skin him, make him in to meat and eat him!”.

He then chased the dog in to his box (wire cage kennel that he sleeps in, and it does look just like the hog trap) and began shooting him with his toy gun. I had to admit it did look just like me “taking care” of the trapped hogs.

Also, the other night during bath time, he got a big mouth full of water and spit it on me. I couldn’t believe it and promptly gave him a small smack…

“What are you doing?” I exclaimed. “Have you gone crazy”

“No dada. Your a hog, and I was trying to wash all of the bugs and ants off of you. That is what you do with mean, dirty hogs.”

My wife and I cracked up. When he helped me skin that last hog, that is what I had told him we do with dirty hogs! Couldn’t exactly blame him, now could I.

Luckily turkey season starts this coming Saturday, so maybe I can get a big gobbler and take his mind off of the HOGS. However I have a feeling that our conversations will then sound like this…

“Dada, let’s go shoot a big gobbler! I hear one now”.

“Boy, turkeys are really hard to kill. And you don’t sit still very well. Maybe we can go next season.”

“Dada, you are the best hunter in the whole world. You can do it!”

Well, if nothing else, kids are the best ego boosters in the world. I guess we had better go check the trap even if there is nothing in it…

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