Would you buy a house if the owners had buried their pets in the garden?

[baddayattheoffice]

So, you've found a house you love, you've exchanged contracts and during a visit to measure the windows the owners drop it into the conversation that they had buried their deceased pets in the garden. Would this put you off buying the house, and if it put you off to the extent that you no longer wanted to buy it, (for example you wanted to dig out for an extension) what would you do?

Our house is pretty old and used to back onto paddocks and farm land so far we’ve discovered 3 dogs a pig and a horse(!) just covered and moved on

You would be hard pressed to find house without some sort of dead animal buried in it, I would have thought.

Burying animals in gardens was very common when I 2as younger. Don't know if it is now.

Then there's possible wildlife.

Like PPs, unless it's a new build I would assume any home has much loved family pets buried in the garden.

how long ago and what type of soil?
depending on the type of soil a dog would have decomposed to almost nothing in a couple of years.

Just put the extension up, bloody he'll it's only a few old bones, and I'd say the same if it was aunt Alice

Gosh no, why would it be an issue? Unless you think you’re going to be haunted by a jack Russell?
We buried pets in our garden when we were children. I can’t imagine my parents told any prospective buyers.
My best friend bought a house where the previous owner had committed suicide in the summer house. That would cause me more of an issue!

Well you aren't digging up.

Builders would be used to this. They wouldn't even mention it.

You do realise there are loads of dead animals that have died and decomposed all over everyone's land...there isn't a little black coffin manned by grim faeries that rocks up every time a bird pops its clogs.

I would buy the house and plant something over the said pets so that they would fertilise it. Or salvage the skulls, if digging for an extension. (I love skulls)

Wouldn't bother me.

Wouldn't put me off at all.

As long as it isn't the granny they have buried under the patio, no problem with it whatsoever.

Horse or hamster?

Nope...wouldn’t worry me.

Still build your extension. As long as they weren't buried recently, it will be fine.

Wouldn't bother me. Wouldn't of even occurred to me that it was an issue. There are millions of insects etc in the ground

Builders will be used to it. Non problem

Gosh, I must be over-thinking this if everyone else here wouldn't have a problem with it.

we buried guineapigs and rabbits in our current garden, and the hamsters
when i was a child also plenty of guineapig graves in the garden
they decompose

Gosh, I must be over-thinking this

Yes, you really are.

Trying not to be offensive here, but if someone told me they pulled out of buying a house because the previous owners had buried their pets in the garden, I would laugh so hard!

It wouldn’t put me off at all.

Apparently we've got a mass grave from the English Civil War in our garden. The odd pet won't make much difference. Things tend to grow well.

It would only bother me in that it would be something else I needed to sort out. I couldn’t just plough away with an extension without trying really hard to locate the pet/s and have the bones moved to another part of the garden. I wouldn’t feel great about doing that either, but it’s the best compromise if the extension is vital and can’t be worked around.

Maybe the owners could take the dogs with them
Do they know you’re planning an extension?

@whatsitallabout1 Wow! So cool