We name ours and it is never a fun day when you are butchering but we look at it as the hogs have a nice clean life and are treated very well. We give them a good life with lots of love instead of that commercial feed lot crap way of living. You can get attached to your breeders since they will be around for awhile but even then years later it is a waste to just let an animal die and in no way show the animal respect by wasting it.