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.

The knots couldn't be your DS getting up to drunken shenanigans could they?

As for what the bones are from, I'm afraid.

No Ds didn't come home until 5.30 and headed straight to bed. 😂

Ugh. Who knows. I would have left it where it was tbh.

Gibbet, now that is an interesting thought. We are in proper countryside within two miles of leaving the house.

I would call a priest, have your land exorcised and then burn it all to the ground. Immediately.

Oh yes, I have seen gamekeepers hang foxes from trees sometimes. I can imagine them using washing line for it, never knew there was a name for it.

There is a group on Facebook called Vulture Culture UK. They will ID it for you and probably be able to give some info.

Be warned- the group exists to cater for exactly the kind of people who would bury an animal for a while and dig it back up again once the bones were 'clean'.

🤣

(Though you did ask for vets who aren’t exactly voodoo/pagan/weird sacrifice specialists!)

Well as a matter of fact... 😄 No, unfortunately not, and I have no clue re. the washing line, but I would say deer leg for the bones.

My childhood neighbour once strung up and gutted a deer carcass on our shared driveway. Maybe someone strung up and gutted a deer within a few miles of your place, then a fox/badger got a takeaway dinner to bring home?

Badgers have shorter legs than that, I think more likely a deer. If long maybe a roe. If smaller maybe a muntjac

Although, it occurs to me that if the creature had been tied up when fresh th

...The knots would be looser.

It's witchcraft, I reckon 🧙‍♀️
Probably means it'll rain on your washing for the next 2 weeks or more

Only on MN is it a muntjac

Thanks everyone, I put it on the neighbours group chat and thet consensus is muntjac and in fairness there are a lot of them further out the road.