have you thought about tying slipknots on the ropes first? or will they just slip off?
I used to pre-tie slip knots but they seem to get off, actually the big hogs are easier, the small ones wriggle free after a time. I had a mismatched handful of too short ties this time. >>>>Speaking of slipping off....Here is the rest of the story with that pig....Had him in a holding cage to deliver to some folks here today...he wriggled out of one knot..so 3 legs are fine I figure for now, throw him in the back of my truck and deliver him just a mile away. As I pull into this old mobile home down this old beat up dirt road it was "Deliverance" X 2....This mentally challenged girl with many piercings and more tattoos came out, she was not all there and she was carrying a baby on her shoulder...looked like it was 4 lbs...I don't think it was alive. Not Kidding! I think it was a fetus. So I am already weirded out a bit and here comes mom and pop, I guess, very large unintelligent couple and about 10 dogs come piling out, chewed up pitbulls, chihuahuas, rottweilers, the whole gammet! Now I here some banging in the back of the truck, I think it's a dog but it's the hog and he as gotten another leg free and is bailing out the back of the truck, apparently he saw these people and wanted no part of whatever ritual they were going to partake in and he gets free. Instinctively I jump out and the pig goes between my legs (maybe figured i was safer than them) and then he bolts off into the brush. How all the dogs missed him I have no idea but thank God really, poor little fella was in for a rough night I believe. So the guy picks up a piece of rope and says, "let's get him", I ask what the rope is for, he says "to catch him". Now it is a 3' long piece of rope and this guy is never going to get 3' from this hog ever again. I just jumped back in the truck and yelled, " no charge" for the hog. and left. Some days are stranger than others.