Yes, we really do have a pig’s head buried in the garden. You see, Captain Y is a hunter and sometimes hunters like to keep trophies. Captain Y likes to keep the skulls of his conquests for decor at the hunting cabin. The easiest way to clean up the bones is to bury them in the ground and let nature take its course. We’ve tried burying skulls in different places in the yard, put cinder blocks on top of them, etc but Sasha always finds them, digs them up and tries to eat them. Yuck! And they smell gross! Since our garden is fenced (to keep the rabbits from helping themselves to our veggies) Captain Y started burying the heads in there. It’s not a big deal with deer since their season is in the fall after our veggies are done for the year but this is our first spring animal, thus our special garden arrangement.
Ms. Piggy is Captain Y’s first feral hog. Feral hogs are a nuisance species here in Texas (and a lot of other states) they rip up fences and plants and wallow wherever they want causing millions of dollars of property damage every year. They reproduce a lot (a sow can have two litters a year with over a dozen piglets each time!) so there very limited hunting restrictions and no season. Feral hogs don’t look like Babe or Wilber; they are mean looking with scraggily hair and big teeth. Here is Ms. Piggy in all of her glory. Yum ;-)
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