Another phone call, and this was the best one I had all day.

Jerry Cunningham, of Jerry's Taxidermy, called to say he does in fact have the hog and it's really, really big.

He was there to see it soon after it's kill. He also "caped out" the hog, removing the hide for the process of mounting it, in which is planned to be a shoulder mount.

To help make the form on which the animal will be mounted, Cunningham had to take accurate measurements of the beast. Here they are:

Around the head (across the ears): 54 inches.
Around the shoulders: 74 inches.
Length of snout (from eyes to nose): 11 inches.

Just for a gauge, a basketball is 30.7 inches around.

As it's currently 8:11 and I just got off the phone with Cunningham, I'll planning to go see it for myself on Wednesday afternoon. I would do it sooner, but Wednesday morning I'll be at the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament in Hoover to watch Alabama play (drumroll, please) the Arkansas Razorbacks.

By Thursday I'm sure I'll be pigged out.
 

Since my last posts, I've been back in the office with the phone glued to my ear.

I've spoken with biologists at Auburn University, game wardens, and even the father of the young boy who killed the monster pig.

The last person I'm currently looking for is the taxidermist, who the father can't remember the name for. He's someone in this neck of the woods.

I'm out to find it.
 

This just in: I found someone who actually saw the hog.

His words: "It looked like an angus bull laying there."

More from him later.