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!😏🦊🦉

Its highly irresponsible to set up s chocolate easter egg hunt that way - chocolate (not to mention the wrappers) is dangerous to all kinds of wildlife, not just dogs.

Presumably whoever set it up didn't expect dog walkers on private land at that time in the morning...

Most people put eggs out in the garden at some point before their children start hunting and there don't seem to be mass wildlife poisoning events every Easter.

That's silly. I don't like dogs, but I know that they don't respect holidays and need walking first thing every day of the year.

And most wildlife will survive a bit of chocolate. Plus normally there are more organised events/visiting family/holidays, so less need to have an informal egg hunt in your local area

The point is more that it isn't a public place then whether or not dogs need walking in the mornings.

FFS! See the Knobbers are out in force about dogs on leads. 🥱

awww quite cute thinking of Donald running around the whitehouse garden looking for chocolate eggs. As long as he didn't kick the other other kids.

If you don't or havnt lived in the country you probably wont get it but people naturally find ways to rub along with each other, there are established walking areas that maybe do cross private land, but everybody just deals with it for an easy life. The farmers will have dogs off leads as well.

Surely the vast majority of people with children and no gardens who wanted to do egg hunts will have done them indoors?

Dog walkers cause farmers no end of problems where I am! Off lead dogs, dog poo left in fields, dog walkers chucking poo bags over hedges into horse paddocks, dogs chasing sheep, gates left open. Local facebook is full of moaning farmers and dog walkers furious that farmers don't understand that their dogs need to run off lead.

@gracielooloo .....Most people and organizations hide plastic eggs for the hunt with little foil coved egg shaped chocolate or coins hidden inside. My parents put cash in theirs, some people put change or bible quotes or little religous trinkets. Some of us do it the opd fashioned way by dying eggs and hiding them right before the kid wakes up and the egg hunt is first thing this morning. My daughter dyed eggs over the past week. 100 of them were hidden and thrown away and the rest we made deviled eggs out of and pickeled eggs with beets

Yes @Leaannb I am aware what an egg hunt is, what I was pondering was the idea of leaving it unattended in an open space. As I have said before if there had been a person within the area I’d have found it less odd.

I’d still have found it odd had I been out for my hours exercise without the dog, anyone could have trashed it, people, dogs or foxes could have eaten the eggs.
However maybe I’m the odd one for thinking it odd!
This was my point not that I was worried for my dog, the wildlife or cv, more the kids that were going to be eating the stuff!

@gracielooloo Obviously not if you did you would realize that there isn't anything to eat except a hard boiled egg that is still in the shell. We dont hide chocolate eggs. We hide either real dyed eggs or plastic eggs

I agree, and just seen a friends insta story all of bucolic Easter egg hunt in a blue bell woods which I was a bit surprised by. I'm very jealous I get country living right now, esp the garden. I think doing something like an egg hunt in a public place, albeit a fairly quiet one is a bit of a risky thing to do right now, she has a garden so why not use it?