If you’ve read my first post regarding the boy who shot dead a wild hog in Alabama. It turns out that the hog is really not wild in fact a feral hog but was a domesticated, actually the hog’s name is ‘Fred’. It was reported that the real owners of Fred are Rhonda and Phil Blissitt, they’ve said that the hog is a 2 year old hog which they purchased as a Christmas gift for her wife in December of 2004.

Allan Andress, enforcement chief for the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, said they learned the hog’s origin as the investigation unfolded.

“We were able to determine that he came from a domesticated environment,” he said. “So, he was not feral to start with. Therefore, he would not violate our feral swine trapping and relocating rule.”

Mike Stone, Jamison’s father, contends that he was unaware of the origin of the pig. Before, during and after the hunt — and until late Thursday night, when contacted by The Star — Mike Stone was under the impression that the hog was feral.

“We were told that it was a feral hog,” Mike Stone said, “and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog.”

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