The Humane Society of Utah today responded with a mixture of incredulity and disgust to reports of Independence Day activities in the rural hamlet of Liberty, Utah (and other small communities), which included chicken chases, grabbing live trout out of a shallow pond with the hands, and the pursuit of young pigs smeared with lard. The Society finds it particularly disturbing that these events were primarily geared for children as young as three years old, except in cases where "some overzealous dads took over for the little ones, proudly displaying their catches as their children screamed," according to one eyewitness account.