Deer leg in garden

[SquishyBones]

I get my dogs deer legs to chew on (complete with hooves and hair). As it’s been hot my dog has been off her food and I gave her a deer leg on Friday to chew on. She carried it around the garden then tried to bury it in DH veg pots so I told her off. She then carried it to the back of the garden and pushed it through a small hole in the fence landing in next doors garden. They were sitting out in the garden at the time and the woman screamed and ran inside and her husband just said “what the fuck is that?!” I went over to the fence and apologised and explained it was the dog. He asked me where I got it from and if I make a habit of killing and chopping up animals!! I explained they are bought from the pet shop. He apologised but added “it’s disgusting though, the wife is in a right state”. I asked him if we could have it back and he refused to touch it so I had to go around to their house and get it myself (they don’t live next door, they live down the street but their garden backs onto ours.

I retrieved it and told DH that dog was to have no more until she got her appetite back.

Well she’s only gone and done the same thing with a big fucking black fury cows ear that DH gave her. They’re going to go ballistic when they see it.

AIBU to insist that DH goes for it this time?

I’ve just read this to my son and partner and they were laughing too. I think some of you who are shocked and horrified must live a very sheltered life. I worked in the countryside for two decades and I’m afraid it can get quite messy out there with animals eating animals and having to deal with entrails and pull dead rabbits out of the font of my car after I’d hit it and it then disappeared 😬😬

Just be very grateful we leave in relatively peaceful times. Dealing with human body parts are a standard part of war and many of our ancestors would have had to have dealt with some terrible horrors in their lifetimes. If the worse that happens to your neighbours is they see a deer leg get pushed through a fence then they’ve probably been very lucky indeed.

Anyone know the difference between vegan and plant based? Clearly not on this thread

Bleurgh, I'd be really unhappy to find deer legs in the garden

@justmyview

Bleurgh, I'd be really unhappy to find deer legs in the garden

Well one-off disarticulated ones, yes ...

I'd be delighted to find four deer legs that led up to a deer browsing in my garden ....

I can't even touch the dried fish so I'm really hopeless!

@AppleJane

Anyone know the difference between vegan and plant based? Clearly not on this thread

Very well aware thank you!!

@Sharkerr

Are you fucking serious? Omg. That’s horrific. YABVU and seem to find it a bit of a joke?

It's not horrific is nature for fucks sake.

Are people really that sensitive these days that they can't let a dog eat natural food? I really don't get the problem. They'd rather give dogs an artificial dog chew than something natural that is good for their health. It's utter madness.

As long as you block the hole up all should be fine. Neighbours have overreacted. I dread to think how they'd react seeing the things we feed our dog. Our chickens are murderous sods and frequently flock round to kill and eat a pigeon, now that's a horrific thing to see.

Care to give a definition?

Oh no OP,
I think you need to do some serious grovelling and keep DDog in the house while he's eating the more exotic of his treats until the fence is fixed. I doubt the neighbours care what your feeding him, but I'd hate to think I was going outside not knowing which animal part I'd find today.

Also are you sure DDog is feeling well in himself if he's managed to get such a large amount of yummies hidden in such a short space of time. Could he have gone off his food.

It is quite funny really. If your neighbour is a vegetarian I understand they might be a bit freaked out but surely wouldn't expect a dog to be a veggie. Bones are bones and dogs like to have a raw bone, nothing wrong with that.

I'm not of a sensitive disposition but this would piss me off. I wouldn't want my kids to see it and get upset (we get deer in our garden and they love them) and after the first time I'd get annoyed with the continuous intrusion from a neighbour wanting to pick up the latest animal body part from my garden.

Go round to collect the bloody ear with a box of chocolates and say that your husband is filling the hole this weekend. Trust me if they start telling your other neighbours about this it will be you that sounds weird and unreasonable.

There are an awful lot of vegans on this thread.
Or hypocrites.

Unless you all think meat is made in packets....

This is hilarious! I would be in fits if a dears leg appeared in my garden!

@SerendipityJane I'd be delighted to find four deer legs that led up to a deer browsing in my garden ....

No, you wouldn't. Because they'd eat your FLOWERS, really quickly, with their big tongues flicking.

We always chase them out of our garden if/when they manage to get in. Not welcome at all.

No, you wouldn't. Because they'd eat your FLOWERS, really quickly, with their big tongues flicking.

I can't put into words how muck I loathe and detest any form of gardening. It's pains me to cut the grass.

However we're unlikely to get any deer straying into the garden, although they have been spotted (apparently). I don't know if skulking foxes (we know they are there from the footprints in snow) would scare them off ?

@noconceptofnormal glad to hear there is another person bringing their children up vegan. I am assuming you are being as if they'd get upset by a deer leg.. they couldn't eat a baby lambs leg or a chicken leg? No?

@LST
Pigs are more intelligent than dogs so don't forget to throw dog's legs in that pot too.

OP can I borrow your dog?

Deer keep coming in the garden and eating my veg.
I could do with a deer loving dog to keep them at bay.

@Veterinari

There are an awful lot of vegans on this thread. Or hypocrites.

Unless you all think meat is made in packets....

What has meat not coming in packets got to do with not wanting to repeatedly find your neighbour’s half chewed rotting animal parts in your garden?

@applejane yep. People who go on about how horrible yulin is piss me off aswell, when they go and chow down on a bacon sarnie in a morning. You're preaching to the converted here 😉

@LST I suspected as much what fun this thread is watching them all tie themselves in knots

Although I will hold my hand up and say I used to describe myself as an animal lover when I still ate meat and realise now that was just plain daft.

There are an awful lot of vegans on this thread.
Or hypocrites.

@Veterinari, exactly.

Lots of people eat 'random animal body parts' so why are they so horrified about the prospect of seeing one in their garden? How on earth do they cope with seeing them in the supermarket?

I get that some people wouldn't be too pleased about any dog chew being tuck through their fence and that some vegans might find it upsetting to discover a piece of an animal in their garden but those on this thread who eat meat really need to get a grip.

@LST

I'll happily chow down on a bacon sandwich or eat a leg of lamb. I wouldn't be happy about doing either if I thought the pig or the lamb had suffered the way dogs do at that festival, animals should be raised and killed humanely and with as little suffering as possible. The huge amount of festival attendees that believe that the more the dog suffers the better it will taste is disgusting. If the meat I ate was hacked into pieces or boiled in oil while alive I wouldn't eat it.

As for the neighbours, happily eating meat and knowing where it is from isn't the same as wanting to pick up half chewed and potentially partly rotten bits of meat off your lawn. What if they have small children running about.

@EverdeRose but then we're back to how do you kill an animal inhumanely that doesn't want to be killed. If you eat meat you just have to accept it. It's like being an alcoholic in denial. There is no humane way.