An Alabama man said he shot and killed a massiveferalhog in self-defense when it wandered into his front yard and caused the family dog to go berserk.
近日，美国阿拉巴马州一名男子表示，他当一只大野猪正在他的院子里游荡时，他开枪打死了它。爱犬的狂吠声让他意识到家里来了不速之客。

Massive：大量的；巨大的，厚重的；魁伟的；
Feral：野生的；凶猛的；阴郁的；
Hog：猪，象猪般的人；贪婪者；
Berserk：狂暴地，狂怒地，发狂地；疯狂地

Wade Seago, a deer hunter who runs a taxidermy business in Samson, Ala., not far from the state's southern border, told Al.com that he was worried the hog - which weighed 820 pounds and had 6-inch "cutters" - would harm his dog, a small schnauzer named Cruiser.
杀死这头大野猪的男子名叫Wade Seago，他是一名猎鹿人，在阿拉巴马州的萨姆森市经营着自己的动物标本制作生意。Seago表示，之所以开枪，是因为他担心这头820磅（371.946公斤）重、长着6英寸长獠牙的“庞然大物”会伤害到自己的爱犬——一只名叫“Cruiser”的雪纳瑞。

Taxidermy：(动物标本)剥制术；
Schnauzer：雪纳瑞；

So, he grabbed a .38-caliberrevolver and opened fire.
因此，他随手抄起一把38mm口径的左轮手枪，对着那头大野猪开了火。

Caliber：口径；
Revolver：左轮手枪，旋转器；

"Cruiser had this huge hog confused, with all of the barking and movement," Seago told the newspaper. "It was not a good situation."
Seago在接受采访时说：“ Cruiser的吠叫和来回跑动一度让这只野猪很迷惑，不过当时十万火急。”

Bark：犬吠；

He added: "By the time I got in a position to shoot, the hog was about 12 yards away. Cruiser was out of my line to the hog, so I fired."
他补充道：“当我找到一个最佳射击角度时，这只野猪距离我有12码（将近11米）；雪纳瑞并不在我和野猪之间，所以我就开枪了。”

Seago posted a photo with the dead hog on Facebook, saying the animal would be "mounted by me personally" in his taxidermy shop.
之后，Seago将他和被打死的野猪合影的照片放到Facebook上之后，在下面配文写道：它就是我的镇店之宝！

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in fact, encourages hunters to help reduce the feral hog population.
事实上，阿拉巴马自然资源保护部门甚至还鼓励猎人们多捕杀一些野猪，减少这一族群日益泛滥的数量。

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