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If you haven't experienced the castration of an animal you haven't lived!! Just kidding. It's pretty nasty. I am 44 now but I will never forget my experience when I was a senior in high school. I had a girlfriend at the time who's father had cows, pigs, hogs, chickens, and sheep. One weekend her father had a few of his beer buddies over to castrate a hog. My buddy who dated my girlfriend's sister was also there that day and we were both asked to join "the men" to help them with this hog. Well, they asked us young guys (about 6 of us teenagers) to get inside the corral while the older guys stayed outside. They had us stand the hog up into the corner of the corral while they had a rope around his neck. When we were finally able to pick this sucker up. He stood well over 6 feet. We all held him in the corner while this old man with one arm jumped in with a knife. Another guys held the hogs "bizness" while the one armed guy proceeded to cut. All us young guys just squirmed like it was happening to us. The hog was squealing like, well, like they were cutting his nuts off!! Crazy. All the time the old timers were laughing there butts off at us. When ol' one arm Manuel was done he jumped out of the corral and they counted to three for the rest of us 6 to try to jump out without the hog going crazy on us. Needless to say, hilarity ensued. We all got out alright but I swore to NEVER do anything like that again. I am so city slicker.
-------------------- John Cordova Gitano Design Studio Albuquerque, NM Posts: 268 | From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Damn that is *ucken cold! They could have at least put the pig to sleep or tranquilize his a$s. Well John I guess you'll never forget that experience. and I bet "Manuel" was a Mexican, don't know to many country boys with that name
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Yeah, that was pretty messed up. I just felt sorry for that poor hog. You're right, Manuel was an old Mexican dude. He just kneeled there with his short stogie hangin' outta his mouth and started slicing away like it was nothing. But I'll tell you one thing, that was one ****ed off hog!
-------------------- John Cordova Gitano Design Studio Albuquerque, NM Posts: 268 | From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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