Yesterday, I killed 6 hogs that were trapped last week on the property down the road from my house where several of the hogs I have killed the last year have came from.

The landowner called me last week to tell me he had let a guy set some traps to try and get rid of some and that he had caught 6. The weather was bad (rain) and he was going to be unavailable until yesterday, so they were holding them in a trailer until I could kill them and turn them into pan sausage.

Anyway, we went and killed the hogs and when we were dragging them out, we noticed that one of them only had 3 legs. I don't know if this is possible one I shot the leg of sometime in the past year, or it was some other injury.

I apologize for the poor picture, but I already had him hung up before I though of it and took the picture with my phone since I was in a hurry to get 6 hogs cleaned up and move on to something else.

Very possible for it to have 4 legs but it could happen that you shot one in the leg and it lost it and survived. Animals have a strong will to survive.

Technically it still has a 4th leg just not all of it, maybe 3.5. Now feet, that's definitely 3.

Technically it still has a 4th leg just not all of it, maybe 3.5. Now feet, that's definitely 3.

Technically pigs do not have feet.

that's a first

I have seen it before. A couple of years ago I got some game cam pictures of one that was missing the lower part of a hind leg and posted pictures here.

http://www.predatormastersforums.com/for...750#Post1701750

Another guy on the lease said he had gotten pictures of him when he still had a snare on his leg.





AS far as I know, nobody on the lease ever killed him.

snare that's what I was thinking or bullet

Looks like bigfoot

Tough critter with a strong will to survive.

had pictures on game camera couple years ago of a sow with three legs....she never has the fourth one....it was weird to see.....caught her later in a trap and disposed of her....she just never developed that front leg....same as deer. I have seen deer with leg shot off and they manage to adapt and survive. Wish I still had the pictures of the hog....

Someone must have been planning to eat him one leg at a time.

he's been caught by dogs. Look at his ears. They've been chewed off by dogs. we see that a lot. We have killed 3 or 4 3 legged hogs.

Possible I guess. Like I said, one of the lease members who has an area next to mine said he had picture of him with a snare still on his leg. Our lease is about 5000 acres and no dogs are allowed, so if it was caught by dogs it wasn't anyone who was supposed to be there.

I hunt a 1000 acre place. That is posted. I'm supposed to be the only one allowed in there. We find dead hogs regularly that have been caught by dogs and tied. I don't know if they forget where they left them or get spooked. The lady that owns it will prosecute. Their ears are always chewed.

Yours may have been caught in a snare for a while and chewed either by dog or coyotes.