Just found the freakiest and weirdest thing at the bottom of the garden, ANY VETS ABOUT ??

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Context

We have a piece of fallow land at the end of our garden, it is home to badgers all year round and at this time of the year we generally have a vixen and cubs, five cubs this year.

We have a little pergola at the bottom of the garden with thin small fairy lights, the other day I noticed that the fairly lights had been ripped off the bottom of the pergola.

Just now I noticed something green at the entrance hole to the fallow land.

I went out and found the attached.

A quick Google throws up pictures of badger skeletons that could match.

Now we reckon the lights were just collateral damage but who in the hell tied the knots, in the washing line and who do the bones belong to if not a badger.

DS is nursing the mother and father of all hangovers is now having a severe case of the heebie jeebies. I was waiting for him to sprint to the bathroom.

Any input welcome.

Photos coming in a moment from my phone.

Sorry images slightly too big will crop and try again.

I'm intrigued now

[invested]

Blair Witch?

🍿 ... waiting

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Here for the pictures

Weird

Deer?

I have horses, found a freshly dead deer and it was picked clean in a week.

Whatever it was has been dead a long time.

TBH it is the clothes line and the bones being tied together that is freaking me out.

I'm not a vet, but I can confirm it is definitely dead and beyond help.

Weird.
Is it your washing line?

I’m going to hope and assume that someone (kids?) found the bones and then tied on the green cord. And then it got buried like that. Not liking the other possibilities.

Maybe someone hung it up for meat?

I agree on deer…I would suggest the deer ate the line and it went through hence the knots but the line is too clean

I reckon some kids found the bones and decided to tie them like that

Yes. That would freak me out too. Not sure why folk are treating it as an animal ID exercise! (Though you did ask for vets who aren’t exactly voodoo/pagan/weird sacrifice specialists!)

I’d think kids messing about - how easy is the land to access?

@hexsnidgett No.

@FurAndFeathers

More less impossible, you wouldn't know the gate was there as it has twenty two years of growth over it and we have a six foot fence between us and the land.

We have several dogs around that don't really bark but will do so to mark territory and we haven't heard a peep from them lately.

Gibbot? Someone in past has attached the remains to a gate/fence as a "warning" to other animals to stay away. Usually done with rats, but all pest creatures. Quite an old countryside superstition, sometimes still done to put off dog walkers and other tresspassers as noone really wants to open a gate festooned with rotting animal remains.

... and youve just found it because some diggi g creature (fox cubs?) came across it and played with it before abandoning them somewhere random.

That was going to be my suggestion too, saw one recently hanging from some trees on a local footpath.

@Soubriquet kids tying is a possibility.