Hog calling

Calls are usually simple woodwind instruments, sometimes adapted from other hunting lures.

Hog calling contests are usually held in regions with pig farming.

While some contests take the audience excitement as a necessary criterion of a good hog call, others consider that to be a side effect of the performance.

Wodehouse the sow Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.

In July 2024, the Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard released the song Hog Calling Contest, the second single from their 26th studio album, Flight b741.