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?

Your neighbour is a soft arse
I am sighing at the amount of people on this thread who are sure that processed dry crap is what a dog should be eating. Dogs are descendants from wolves, they are made to survive on a high protein diet of raw meats and animal innards, skin and bones. Has nobody heard of the saying 'as fit as a butchers dog'!!

Hrtft but it really tickled me for some reason

@ThousandsAreSailing

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

I think she should buy the dog a trampoline and put it next to the neighbour's fence.

@SquishyBones I think we all need an update.

Did DH fill your hole?
Was it satisfactory?
Did your neighbour take photos?

Please can we have a picture of your ddog (deer dog) op?

🤣🤣

My dog prefers to bury his treats until they ripen! His favourite is a lamb leg. I guess if your dog is banned from the veggie plot then the hole in the fence is the next best thing!

[quote Veterinari]@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?
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As far as I’m aware quoting doesn’t send an email whereas @ does unless the function is turned off

The OP distinctly said the other treats had been carried through so I don’t believe my comprehension is lacking.What eating meat has got to do with letting your dog put their leftovers in someone else’s garden I am unclear on though.

Why are any of us bothered about anything on the internet? Why are you so combative and rude?

@drinkingwineoutofamug actually, was it you with the thread about her a while back? You adopted her and then the original owner took her back and neglected her, and you finally managed to get her away from him for good? If not then she has a doppelganger on here

Dogs are descendants from wolves Pedantic aside - dogs and wolves share a common ancestor, they aren't descended from them.

I'm laughing so much I think it might bring on labour!

As far as I’m aware quoting doesn’t send an email whereas @ does unless the function is turned off
Well apologies @MyPersona I don't know what to suggest. It seems there's nothing you can do about that then....

Why are you so combative and rude?

Probably for the same reasons you're overly dramatic. Cos I feel like it

@donquixotedelamancha

Have you popped a note into their letterbox letting them know what happened?

Attach another cow's ear so they know what to look for.

Actually burst out laughing at this and got a weird look from my partner

Where can I find deer legs?! My dog would keel over in happiness, I think

He didn’t fancy his breakfast the other morning, which I thought was unusual for him. Turns out he’d just caught his own instead as I found him chomping on a rabbit in the garden. He’s raw fed and doesn’t get processed ‘treats’ as they’re simply not good for him. Dried liver is the one for him

Your neighbours sound a little highly strung, I get that not everyone likes dogs, let alone nasty raw dog foodstuffs but they overreacted.

Pedantic aside - dogs and wolves share a common ancestor, they aren't descended from them.

True and humans are not descended from apes, we ARE apes.

One of my DDog’s has a tendency to eat anything- no matter how old and stinky it is- a dead bloated fish was the worst 🤢 But I can’t give either dog any of the animal parts to eat as it would just upset their stomach.We do have the antlers for them to chew on to help their teeth.

Think your dog was just keeping food for later! Just unfortunate it was in your neighbour’s garden 😂

I would be sorely tempted to give your dog one of these to play with!

www.amazon.co.uk/Realistic-Bloody-Halloween-Outdoor-Cosplay/dp/B074W28ZGR/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=severed+hand+dog+toy&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1593379673&sr=8-1

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

Really?? Mortified? Mine would have been fascinated.

I love this thread it's bloody brilliant, esp the bit about devouring the postman! 😆

Can't stop laughing - had to share this one with my DH too - hilarious, I can just imagine them.

Same here. I rarely share anything on mumsnet with DH but knew he would find this as funny as I did.

I have never owned a dog and didn't realise these lumps of dead animal were a thing you did, although now I come to think about it I do remember seeing pigs or cows ears in a tub at the pet shop where we used to get guinea pig supplies. But it all sounds like a perfectly sensible and natural thing to me.

If I found something like this in the garden (and our neighbours have just got a dog though our fence us pretty sound) I think I would be momentarily nonplussed but then more amused than anything. Some people seem to be easily disgusted and put out.

I hadn't realised how many disgusting things were available for dogs until we got dpup. However these disgusting things also come with health benefits such as ducks feet great for teeth, things with hair being natural wormer as well as being way more delicious and without all the crap of a denta stick. I think mine is too small for a whole leg though and especially now she's stopped really chewing things, she just hides them all around the house and moves them around occasionally. Natural chews smell more so this is a little unpleasant 😆. Unfortunate OP's dog seems to have started doing the same but on to the neighbours property 😬😆

There's nothing wrong with your dog having them but nobody has to be ok with it ending up in their garden, in the same way they wouldn't appreciate it if you lobbed a raw steak over the fence. No need for a big drama but they're not unreasonable to have been a bit miffed.

Really?? Mortified? Mine would have been fascinated.

@Midrangecolours mine too. Dd loves anything to do with bones and animals in general. Am always having to make her leave dead crabs behind at the beach and skulls of mouse in the woods 😆

Wander round the countryside and you will find rotting rabbits, sheep skulls and so on. My children would have been nosey but not horrified

If I saw a deer leg like that in my garden I would be freaking out and crapping my knickers tbh. No blood on them, so not a fox attack. SoI'd be thinking someone had it in for me- horse head on pillow kind of thing!

We quite often have to remove half a dead rabbit from our garden with no idea* how it got there.

Op, have your dogs been dropping them off?

My two would love a deer leg but they'd demand it on the sofa 😝

*it could be our dogs or cat, or a fox or the ferret that is rumoured to be chasing chickens locally.

This reminds me of an Easter egg hunt that I held in my garden for some local children a few years ago. They were all wearing lovely party dresses, foraging around for eggs amongst the daffodils, when one little girl said, "Mummy, what's this?". It turned out to be a severed lambs head that a fox must have ditched in my garden. Poor girl thought that it was part of the Easter hunt!