Who does an Easter Egg Hunt in a public place?

[gracielooloo]

I was out with the dog early this morning (6.30). We live in a village and two minutes up the road there are fields.

Walking down the track (it just leads to a field, no houses) realised there were pastel coloured eggs hanging from branches and plastic eggs on the ground, had a look and fortunately they were all empty. That was all good except for the polystyrene bunnies of which one took a battering and lost an ear from ddog tossing it about a bit, replaced them and went on our way.

Got to the end of the track and there’s some trees, here displayed in front of me is a Happy Easter banner, think Christ what now. Ddog belts over (he’s a lab so will eat ANYTHING!) and I follow. Being careful I don’t get a branch in the eye I look down at my feet and here’s a full blown Easter Egg Hunt, choc eggs strewn everywhere and one huge egg. Fortunately I grabbed Ddog, sure he only got two wee eggs and stuck his lead on.

The whole thing has amused or maybe bemused me, whoever did it was either up very early or did it last night but would you not be worried about the wildlife getting in amongst it!😏🦊🦉

Your dog should be on a lead anyway

Ddog - taking the ‘d’ thing way too far. Dog should be on a lead anyway.

It's not unusual in normal times.

Oh just ignore PPs - you are right - at least you’re out for your essential excerise but an Easter egg hunt isn’t! dogs are still allowed off leads if there is no one around. And I say ddog too he’s my ‘dearest’ member of the household!

It's quite normal to have Easter egg hunts in public places.

Put your dog on a lead, especially if it eats anything and doesn't have excellent recall.

People with no garden?

But these aren't normal times, @howmuchfood.

A woman has posted on our local fb group that she has put eggs all over the estate for when children to find when they are out for their daily exercise. Very stupid thing to do really.

You're much nicer than me, I'd have helped myself to some chocolate!

Ha ha Thankyou @vinoelle and for the record I can see the whole field from all angles and if anyone appeared which is unusual at anytime never mind at 6.30 on a Sunday morning DDDDDdog would be leaded straight away.😆

Happy Easter everyone!

These people are pretty dim. Do they not realise that vermin eat chocolate?

Our estate has pictures of eggs and a letter to copy down in the window of participating houses. Kids spot them on their daily walk then rearrange the letters to make a phrase. I think it’s a great idea!

Dogs should be on leads in the countryside because of ground nesting birds.

Pretty stupid behaviour, chocolate is toxic for dogs so people shouldn't leave it on the ground in a public place, especially an area where dogs might be walked.

Yeah you're not being unreasonable. Someone did this in one of our fields full of sheep a couple of years ago - I just collected them up and binned them. Morons.

We had a small garden when I was a kid and my parents hid some of the eggs in the house, I distinctly remember finding one in the washing machine. No need to put them in a public place.

Dog should be on a lead at this time of year - it is not about other people but for the sake of all the ground nesting birds! People should respect the countryside more.

yanbu about a public easter egg hunt during lock down. just why?

yabu about not keeping you dog on the lead. it was clearly not under close control.
wrt chocolate - if you don't want your dog to eat what it finds on the ground then train it.

A parish council near to me posted a warning that Setting up Easter egg hunts that involve touching other people’s or public property was a sure fire wY to spread Coronavirus and they would be reporting to the police.

The anti dog brigade are out I see
OP I have a lab, so I fully understand

1.Why are they putting them in someone else’s field ?

1. Put your dog on a lead ?

How has this turned into a dog bashing thread?!

OP, YANBU. Virus can live on hard surfaces - irresponsible to put out eggs all over a public place. Serve them right if the rats eat them.

Yanbu. At this time putting chocolate eggs that children will touch and eat on public property is pretty dodgy. As is leaving eggs without someone watching them.

We have done hints on public space before now... But one parent gets ahead of DC, drops one egg at a time whilst signalling location to following parent. Following parent picks up missed eggs.

In current climate, egg hunt was around house!

YANBU
Leaving a trail around a public area is at high risk of public disturbance even without the added complication of edible food stuffs and items that could potentially transmit the virus to other people.

I have previously put out a trail of laminated clue cards around the neighbourhood about an hour ahead of a youth group trail, and they were already interfered with. They were removed as we did it so no lasting evidence.

Plenty of families I know do hunts in the house even where they have gardens avaliable.