To be suspicious of this?

[BoredAdminGirl]

I live in a small village and just down the road from me there is a large patch of green in the middle of the houses and bungalows.

On this green I sometimes walk my dog and several times I have witnessed her pick something up and try to eat it. On closer inspection it seems that someone is placing large carcuses and bones and meat on the green. Why would they do this? It is rotten and attracting flies.

Part of me thinks it is a way to deter dog walkers, part of me worried that it may even be laced with something toxic (this has happened in my area).

I just think its awful, children play close by and you have these large rotting corpses hanging around.

Could it be foxes ripping into bins and leaving it on the green after they have had their fill do you think?

Anyhow, I have contacted environmental health and informed them!

Probably someone feeding the foxes.

A woman down the end of my road does this. She puts bones out for the foxes, bread out for the birds and dog food for the hedgehogs.

Drives us all mad but she just won't bloody stop.

It could be loads of things. Cats always get if our bins if there is a chick carcass in it. I would assume foxes do too.

Since you have reported it, I am confused as to why you think you are being unreasonable. You are concerned and reported, which an entirely reasonable response.

chicken carcass not chick carcass....

Hi Shwept, my DP says I am over reacting!

If it's just after binday then most likely foxes getting into the bags ( one road I drive down on a Monday has at least 4-5 burst bags when people leave them out on a Sunday . The foxes suss out when the pickings are rich)

There was a spate of poisoning near us a while back, but it was ham laced with poison (not naice ham then )

Corpses of what!?

Does 70's bin theory work?

I have no idea, Arsenic, but they be big bones!

This thread's about to go woo, isn't it?

Is this thread linked to the one about sightings of big cats in the UK?

Nah> It's human sacrifices innit?

For awhile back of autumn last year we had a spate of rabbit corpses and other identifiable bits hanging out of the trees around where we live.

Turned out it was a large bird of prey dropping stuff, the local bird man told us it was bombing used to territory mark. I'd never heard of it, stopped after a few weeks but it was ghastly for awhile.

Maybe you've got birds of prey or seagulls apparently they do this too. Also likely foxes, ferrel cats, stray dogs and weirdos.

Report it to the police maybe if you think it's poisoned.

We have friends who leave stuff out for red kites, they have a lot of them around where they live, and they give them the bones/carcass from roast chicken etc. Maybe someone is doing that or similar.

If there is a lot of it, then it will attract rats, and the local council environmental health people would come and check it out.