The wild hog, la’-man or fang’-o, when hunted with dogs is a surly fighter and prefers to take its chances at bay; consequently it is more often killed then by the spearman than in the runway.  The wild hog is also often caught in pitfalls dug in the runways or in its feeding grounds.  The pitfall, fi’-to, is from 3 to 4 feet across, about 4 feet deep, and is covered over with dry grass.

In the forest feeding grounds of Polus Mountains, between the Bontoc culture area and the Banawi area to the south, these pitfalls are very abundant, there frequently being two or three within a space one rod square.

A deadfall, called “il-tib’,” is built for hogs near the sementeras in the mountains.  These deadfalls are quite common throughout the Bontoc area, and probably capture more hogs than the pitfall and the hunter combined.  The hogs are partial to growing palay and camotes, and at night circle about a protecting fence anxious to take advantage of any chance opening.  The Igorot leaves an opening in a low fence built especially for that purpose, as he does not commonly fence in the sementeras.  The il-tib’ is built of two sections of heavy tree trunks, one imbedded in the earth, level with the ground, and the other the falling timber.  As the hog enters the sementera, the weight of his body springs the trigger which is covered in the loose dirt before the opening, and the falling timber pins him fast against the lower timber firmly buried in the earth.  From half a dozen to twenty wild hogs are annually killed by the people of the pueblo.  They are said to be as plentiful as formerly.

Bontoc pueblo does not catch many wild fowls.  Fowl catching is an art she never learned to follow, although two or three of her boys annually catch half a dozen chickens each.  The surrounding pueblos, as Tukukan, Sakasakan, Mayinit, and Maligkong, secure every year in the neighborhood of fifty to one hundred fowl each.  The sa’-fug, or wild cock, is most commonly caught in a snare, called “shi’-ay,” to which it is lured by another cock, a domestic one, or often a half-breed or a wild cock partially domesticated, which is secured inside the snare set up in the mountains near the feeding grounds of the wild fowls.

The shi’-ay when set consists of twenty-four si’-lu, or running loops, attached to a cord forming three sides of an open square space.  As the snare is set the open side is placed against a rock or steep base of a rise.  The shi’-ay is made of braided bejuco, and when not in use. is compactly packed away in a basket for the purpose (see Pl.  XLIV).  There are also five pegs fitted into loops in the basket, four of which are employed in pegging out the three sides of the snare, and the other for securing the lure cock within the square.  Only cocks are caught with the shi’-ay, and they come to fight the intruder who guides them to the snare by crowing his challenge.  As the wild cock rushes at the other he is caught by one of the loops closing about him.  The hunter, always hiding within a few feet of the snare, rushes upon the captive, and at once resets his snare for another possible victim.