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?

@Veterinari they are 5 and 3 so don't understand what meat is yet. If they saw those legs in the garden they would be mortified

@Veterinari

Let's not get hysterical now *@MyPersona*

It was neither rotting nor multiple times. It's simply an animal leg. Once. Just like the meat you buy is part of an animal and most people accept that on their property without a song and dance.

Why the need for exaggeration and disgust?

No need to @ me, I’m on the thread Hysterical is a sexist term Deer leg + ear + duck foot = multiple It was dead animal, partially consumed, outside in warm weather so it would be surprising if it wasn’t rotting.

I don’t know about you but I don’t tend to cover the meat I buy in dog slobber and chuck it on the lawn to attract flies, but I understand we’re all different.

@donquixotedelamancha @GinnyStrupac: you've both had me roaring with laughter.

Omg OP I would have FREAKED OUT with that being pushed through my fence. Make sure theres no gaps in the fence, your poor neighbours. I get it's what your dog eats but others don't want to see it. Different chucking back a ball to chucking back a deer leg. I would not have touched it either.

If your kids would have a melt down at animal parts then you are failing as a parent.
Children do not need to be protected from the natural world around them. Animal's eat other animals. Its life.
Christ can you imagine what sort of adults they will make throwing a fit everytime they walk past a butcher's.

If those things came through our fence they'd never be seen again 🤣 our two love bones, chicken feet etc. We had 7 dogs in the garden once and they all had a raw bone from the butchers each. Neighbour thought they'd killed the postman 🙈

@Soubriquet very different from meat and legs with fur and a hoof. Obviously

@LastRoloIsMine failing as a parent 😂 big difference in a slab of meat to a full furry leg isn't there. Let's hope your the perfect parent then eh

[quote winterchills]@Veterinari they are 5 and 3 so don't understand what meat is yet. If they saw those legs in the garden they would be mortified [/quote]
My daughter is 3 and has a clear understanding of what meat is and where it comes from because we have taught her that. It is important she knows where her food comes from.

If your kids don't have a basic understanding of that it is because you have not educated them on the matter.

This is very very funny OP. Sitting down to read the full thread now.

Sorry but this thread did make me laugh 😂

@MyPersona so you can quote me but I can't tag you? my sincere apologies - I hadn't realised you were in charge of the thread. Gosh you must be very important.

Great that you passed the vocabulary test, your comprehension still seems to be lacking though.
Only the deer leg was taken to the neighbours = single
The other treats were mentioned by the OP but not carried to the neighbour.

outside in warm weather so it would be surprising if it wasn’t rotting. AKA I just exaggerated for effect.

Deer limbs are dried not fresh. This preserves them. Just like the other dog treat body parts you're so concerned about. So no rotting.

Is it just the meat covered in dog slobber? Do you object to all dog treats then?

Assuming you put dead animals in your mouth, why are you so bothered about a bit of dried meat on a stranger's lawn on the Internet?

LastRoloIsMinefailing as a parentbig difference in a slab of meat to a full furry leg isn't there. Let's hope your the perfect parent then eh

Far from a perfect parent.
And no a slab of meat is still an animal. Do you not teach your children this? Do they think all meat just comes in packets?
My children understand nature and know animals eat each other. They have from a young age. I always told them what animal their dinner came from.
They may say yuk at the sight of a dog with a deer leg but they are not so snowflake they would be hysterical or distressed by it.

Yes, the welfare of our almost 16 year old (medium sized) dog has obviously been severely compromised since he has not eaten animal products since being rescued at 5 months old...

Dogs are omnivores, cats are obligate carnivores in the wild, but that still doesn't mean you can't formulate a complete vegan diet for cats - it just needs to meet more criteria than vegan dog food, because they can't vary their digestive enzymes like dogs can, and you need to be careful with the pH.

Hardly any companion animals eat their ancestral diet in this country, just like hardly any of the humans do. Most of them eat processed crap that won't support good health (and has to have various essential nutrients added back into it anyway, as they are destroyed during production).

If there was an ancestral diet for domestic dogs (since they are not a wild species, unlike wolves), it would be largely human food scraps. Our scraps just happen to be made of plants.

@Veterinari they are 5 and 3 so don't understand what meat is yet. If they saw those legs in the garden they would be mortified

You should probably work on their education. I find it bizarre that when posters ask about raising their kids vegetarian there's an inevitable response of 'you need to let them make their own choices'. Yet so many parents feed their kids meat but refuse to tell them what it actually is. Rather deceptive and hypocritical in my mind.

@drinkingwineoutofamug What a gorgeous and fabulously healthy looking girl! What is she, if you don't mind me asking? Looks part rabbit herself with those ears

[quote winterchills]@Soubriquet very different from meat and legs with fur and a hoof. Obviously [/quote]
But why?

I’ve always told my children were their food comes from. I think it’s important they make informed choices.

So they know that their chicken nuggets was once a chicken.

They know animals will kill other animals to eat.

Dogs are omnivores, cats are obligate carnivores in the wild, but that still doesn't mean you can't formulate a complete vegan diet for cats - it just needs to meet more criteria than vegan dog food, because they can't vary their digestive enzymes like dogs can, and you need to be careful with the pH.

This paragraph tells me everything I need to know about your understanding of animal nutrition and behaviour.

Also You clearly don't know what welfare is - longevity isn't a welfare indicator. Animals in labs and zoos can live for ages. It just means someone feeds them. It's no reflection whether they're healthy and have what they want.

Your dog just wants to share her treats with the DNs! Lovely girl!

For goodness sake, can't you just buy your dog a sack of bulls' pizzles like the rest of us! 😉

As an aside I would still give your husband an ear full though!

When I had my horses when I was young for some years I kept them in a working farm, the dogs (including my little jrt) were given alsorts of stuff to munch on, clippings of hoof, full sawn off cow horns (they went mad for those) anything gross but a bit crunchy they had it. I'd have happily thrown the deer leg back to you!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan my girl is a Belgian Mali crossed whippet. Dna done as when she came to us , chip said whippet x . There's also a splattering of greyhound and staffie. She's the most softest soul . Love her to bits. Even when she brings dead things to me!

Will add she looked nothing like this when she came to us. She's a spoilt doggie. Her fur is like velvet all the dead legs she chews on . Prefer her company now to hoomans

Did everyone miss OPs update where she said the neighbour had also found a ducks foot and a carrot? Your dog has a lot of explaining to do

Did you fix the fence yet?

And what about the photo your neighbour too, has it appeared on a local FB group yet? (it will)

Your dog is hysterical. She is torturing the neighbours
Can you get her a brain next or a cows tongue.