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?

Oh ffs! Unless the neighbour is a vegetarian she can just suck it up.

@TiddlestheCat

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!

My dog wouldn't just want the leg, he'd want the whole animal.
I have to make do with cow shins for my dog OP.
Block the hole and carry on with the deer legs and cow ears.
Your neighbours are being daft. It's not like you're asking then to start gnawing on it.

I dragged a cows skull home as a small child that I found in fields by my Nans house. My mother went nuclear. It was awesome as well.

Needless to say this both amused me and reminded me of the whittling scene in the Fall Out Boy video.

My last dog "buried" his pigs ear under my pillow, where I didn't find the stinky slimy thing until climbing into bed!

Love the idea that OP dog is posting its treats through the fence for the.neighbours!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan yes that's us! She's come on leaps and bounds. I'm proud of my fur bag

@midnightstar66 my dd is the same! A bird skull takes pride of place on her bedroom shelf which she found age 4! She’s now 9 but obsessed with fossils, bones, unusual stones and dinosaurs! My brother is a butcher and showed her how he dressed pheasants at Christmas!

@SquishyBones

I don’t run my dogs in hot weather, I’m not daft.

They get a good run at 6am and again at night but during the day they’re at home so the chews keep them occupied. Plus as someone else has pointed out the fur is a natural wormer.

Even the worms are like "fuck dis" 😂😂😂

WheresMyOldLifeGone my dog did the same thing with a pigs leg complete with its trotter. Lovely present to find under my pillow!

@tillyandmilly

I am sorry but that is horrific and disgusting! - I could not touch that! - poor deer !

I don't think the deer would've minded. It was long past feeling offended by this point

I'm quite worried about the five year old who hasn't made the connection between chicken dinner and chicken goes cluck.

Also (as always) amazed at the meat eaters who are fine with it as long as it doesn't look like an animal.

I eat some meat, I would prefer if the process were more humane (yes, animals don't consent to being killed, but we can make their suffering as little as possible, and their lives worth living for as long as they are imo), I'd also not balk at dispatching my own dinner.

But then, I used to work in medical research, so I've euthanised dogs I've named and played with so people can have safe medications for heart conditions and the like. Think about that next time you pop those pills.

@Frlrlrubert

I'm quite worried about the five year old who hasn't made the connection between chicken dinner and chicken goes cluck.

Also (as always) amazed at the meat eaters who are fine with it as long as it doesn't look like an animal.

I eat some meat, I would prefer if the process were more humane (yes, animals don't consent to being killed, but we can make their suffering as little as possible, and their lives worth living for as long as they are imo), I'd also not balk at dispatching my own dinner.

But then, I used to work in medical research, so I've euthanised dogs I've named and played with so people can have safe medications for heart conditions and the like. Think about that next time you pop those pills.

Well this went dark really quick 😳 goodnight and sweet dreams all 😅

OP: Deer leg offended neighbours
Nobody:

Frlrlrubert: I MURDERED DOGS

🤷🏼‍♀️😂 i fucking love mumsnet

I have just read extracts of this thread to Lola Lakie.

She is appalled that some dogs are prepared to share their treats with humans, rather than keep them all to themselves as any self-respecting dog would. She has asked me to point out that if she, a small, 12.5lb, lakeland terrier, can catch an adult rabbit and get it down her neck in under 10 minutes, these big dogs can surely manage to eat a mere pig's ear etc.

I have reminded her that she didn't do such a good job of eating the hedgehog she killed, and she is now sulking.

Well this went dark really quick 😳 goodnight and sweet dreams all 😅

Oh that has really tickled me 😆

I've no problem with dogs eating real door but I would be annoyed if they were using my garden as a larder. Just like I'm pissed off that the neighbourhood cats keep using my vegetable patch as a toilet.

Place marking before this gets pulled

We have a lot of deer - legs still intact - where we live. It's great to see them all at close quarters when no one else is about on an early morning or late evening walk, especially if they come down to the river for a drink, like this evening, or to swim across. Our dogs would bring a whole deer home each, never mind a leg, given the chance. They are not given the chance, of course, but you can see the longing in their eyes and then the disappointment. As their other trick is digging up carrots to eat from the veggie patch, I often think they are planning a stew.

@TJ17

OP: Deer leg offended neighbours Nobody:

Frlrlrubert: I MURDERED DOGS

🤷🏼‍♀️😂 i fucking love mumsnet

Finally, and explanation for why my dog keeps finding deer legs in the fields! I was very bemused as there aren't lots of dead deer lying about the place.... just their legs.

There is no way I could even touch them 🤢 I would be very angry if they come into my garden. My brother feeds his dog rabbit ears because it's good for the digestive system and he is raw fed. I don't like the idea of it and makes me cringe.

Our dogs have raw bones - one white dog sat in the garden yesterday and had a bloody face because of it

Well done on giving your dog enriching chews that they love and have no harmful additives

Can see why your neighbours might not like it 😂
Just apologise again and say the hole is being blocked up

Think about that next time you pop those pills.

Or go vegan and you won't need the heart pills

TJ17

Or go vegan and you won't need the heart pills grin

I know you are just being goady (throughout the thread), because who would write this and put smiley face behind it... But as someone who had parent die of heart issues and grandparent suffering a stroke, I would chose the former without a hesitation. So no vegan here