True Blue,
There are 2 aspects of this post that are being addressed at the same time.
1.) Legal aspects of doing any training in a pen if one animal bites another.
and
2.) Image and portrayal of hog hunters by hog hunters.
Both of which have nothing to do with using 6 pits to kill a shoat in a pen (on the surface)
Hopefully it was just some stupid people doing something cruel and they will get what's coming to them.....and hopefully it will never be linked to hog-dog hunting at all.
BUT......It stimulated thought by myself and others and hopefully thru the posts that everyone made our fellow hunters thought long and hard about training methods, our sport's image and how we help/hurt it and what we can do to help it.
If I wasn't clear let me be now.....I totally disagree with the behavior described in the report......
The basis for all my previous text was to make people think........
You stated:
Why act guilty when we are doing nothing wrong?
There are many folks who start pups in pens and even a 6 month old dog catching a 20 pound pig (even without breaking the skin) is still a felony when done in a pen. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people here have used simmilar training techniques in the past......I'm not gonna sugar-coat anything, but instead I want people to be aware of the law to protect themselves in the future. With that knowledge, the exact training exercise can now be performed in the middle of an open field and not one law is being violated. The information could keep someone out of trouble in the future.
Our image is very important...I agree, and have spent years trying to build on it.........but we have to educate ourselves and discuss the real issues in order to better ourselves as a sport......
Sugar makes it taste good for a while but it takes SALT to preserve it forever! 
