Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

Hogs cause trouble for other wildlife,

Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from insects. Hogs root to eat, and rooting in muddy areas is much easier than rooting in dry areas.

It was a short distance (to move), but with a lot at stake, ... And it certainly proved to be the right decision.

[The Hogs lined up with short splits on the line and a loaded backfield, while Vanderbilt (2-0) filled the box with all it had. The Commodores won with a stalemate at the line of scrimmage as the powerful Hillis failed to move the mass.] It doesn’t matter, ... From there we have to put that ball in the end zone.