Unusual hunting. Homage to the old Ají de la Cocha

(February, 2003)

It was one Saturday at 9pm when I received a call from my cousin Juan Nores, telling me that in his farm -located in the locality of Achiras, in the south of  Cordoba- he had been visited since the last 2 nights by 2 boars which had killed the turkeys, chickens and had run the dogs of the area.

I explained to him that it should had been some wild pigs, since wild boars aren´t usual in this area; anyway, I couldn´t go  there because I was in Laboulaye visiting my relatives, so he answered me that he would look for the foreman of “La Cocha”, Tomás Bracamonte, to see if he could run the pigs with his dogs.

That night I couldn´t sleep thinking that in the country they where just the old dogo Ají, and a mongrel  named “Porqué”, both were 11 years old, and thinking that if they found the pigs they could barely do anything; so, I went to the country early  in the morning.

When passing  Rio Cuarto, I took a male dogo “Odiseo” and a female one “ Culpa”, who were 2 years old.

We arrived at the country at 10 am and at 11 am Mr. Tomás Bracamonte arrived from the “estancia” accompanied by “Aji” and “Porqué”.

We immediately went out and in a slope situated 500 mts from the house, “Culpa” lifted a fresh trace; a few minutes walk from the place, and much to our  surprise, we saw a small sow and a great stallion of wild boar.

The problem came up earlier than expected, all the dogs went after the sow and they caught it in a few seconds, but only the dogo” Aji”went after the wild boar.

Desperate, after putting the sow to death, we tried to separate the animals as soon as possible; there was  little hope to catch the  big wild boar because only the old dog had run after it.

Nonetheless, we had a surprise when we saw  200 mts far from us in a bend of the slope, a toothless dog, but with the bravery of a thousand dogos, holding in his snout such animal; in his forehead and in his chest the wild boar had left his deadly marks.

Few minutes later “Odiseo” and “Culpa” were seizing the wild boar as if with stakes and the accurate stab finished with such animal.

Fortunately, we could suture the old “Aji”, and a fast and improvised blood transfusion from “Odiseo”  saved his life.

Juan Nores, Agustín D'andrea Nores, Ulises D'Andrea Nores, Dr. Pablo Felisia, Juan Carlos Scandroglio and Tomás Bracamonte	Pablo Felisia, Juan Avakian, Ulises D'Andrea Nores,  Juan Carlos Scandroglio, Agustín D'Andrea Nores and Tomás Bracamonte

The wild boar weighed 265 pounds and we could enjoy it with the group of friends we were accompanied by (Juan Avakian, Pablo Felisia, Agustín D´Andrea, Juan Carlos Scandroglio, Tomás Bracamonte, and Juan Nores).

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