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To ask my neighbours not to hang dead animals from their fence?

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Bdg212 · 12/02/2022 15:08

New neighbours like to shoot. That’s their choice, but they hang the animals they kill from their front garden fence for all to see. It’s usually pheasants and sometimes rabbits. Aibu to think this is pretty inconsiderate behaviour? I’m veggie and find it quite upsetting. There are kids about too.

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Bdg212 · 12/02/2022 15:30

Don’t*

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CandidaAlbicans2 · 12/02/2022 15:35

It does seem a little insensitive to hang them on their front garden fence rather than somewhere more discreet, and besides, I'd be worried a fox or badger would nick them! When I had pheasants to hang they'd go in an outbuilding, not left outside on a fence Are they trying to advertise just how much they're embracing "country life" or something I wonder? You say they're new, so do you know if they're country folk or from a city?

TiddyTidTwo · 12/02/2022 15:40

Bit performative of them though, isn't it

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Bdg212 · 12/02/2022 15:41

@CandidaAlbicans2

It does seem a little insensitive to hang them on their front garden fence rather than somewhere more discreet, and besides, I'd be worried a fox or badger would nick them!

When I had pheasants to hang they'd go in an outbuilding, not left outside on a fence

Are they trying to advertise just how much they're embracing "country life" or something I wonder? You say they're new, so do you know if they're country folk or from a city?

I’ve no idea but but that’s an interesting thought 🤔

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ThumbWitchesAbroad · 12/02/2022 15:43

Are they selling them? If so, it's more or less like a "home butcher" shop, so wouldn't bother me that much, unless they're particularly gory.

However, if you feel there's a health and safety issue, maybe talk to the council about it, if you can't just ask them to hang their catches in a less public place.

Janesmom · 12/02/2022 15:43

I’ve seen similar in a few places. This kind of thing always struck me as a fairly normal part of country life.

MrsWinters · 12/02/2022 15:50

Don’t like country life, then don’t move to the country. This to me sounds like those vegans who buy next to a dairy farm and then complain that they find the cows upsetting

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 12/02/2022 15:51

Could you get a fox?

A fox will drag them off the fence, which might discourage your neighbour putting things on there.

However you may find your fox on the fence one day.

TyrannysaurusXXrightshoarder · 12/02/2022 15:51

@Janesmom

I’ve seen similar in a few places. This kind of thing always struck me as a fairly normal part of country life.

It’s not ‘normal’ to hang caught vermin off the fence where they’ve been caught. Maybe the New neighbours got the wrong rural memo?

TyrannysaurusXXrightshoarder · 12/02/2022 15:52

Arrrgh it’s only normal - not not normal!!!!

Fredstheteds · 12/02/2022 15:52

Tell them the neighbours cat is a thief and advise it going in the shed

ABitBesottedWithMyDog · 12/02/2022 15:53

You will get used to it and it will bother you less over time.

It's healthy for children to see where meat comes from. It may turn some veggie- win.

AngelinaFibres · 12/02/2022 15:59

My neighbours opposite are friends with people who shoot weekly. On a Saturday or Sunday morning there is usually a brace pf pheasants hanging off their front door. The pub is just down from my house. After the shoot there will be 20 vehicles there with pheasants hanging all over them. Its part of the country economy. Shoots bring in a lot of money and employ a lot of people. The animals in the fields are not there to look pretty. They are food. Why did you move to a rural area if it all offends you.

Phrenologistsfinger · 12/02/2022 15:59

YANBU. It’s disgusting! Some (many) country people are backwards and grim. I know, I live there too. Tradition my arse!

Oakdog · 12/02/2022 16:00

Very strange. I know a lot of people that shoot, and not one of them would do that. All the animals they shoot are eaten, but even if you were 'hanging' game it would be done in a shed or somewhere cool indoors. Moles and other vermin used to be displayed on fences, but that was to prove that the mole catcher had caught the moles they said they had, I think. I wouldn't be keen on this at all!

Skinnydog · 12/02/2022 16:00

Grew up in country here, and first thought was totally normal and I actually do think more meat eaters need to see and think where their food comes from children included. I also believe it’s probably better than being raised in factory farmed conditions and eaten. However we also have foxes in the countryside which would snaffle these given half the chance if they were left out too long. Ours were normally hanging in porch, anywhere outside encourages vermin

Phrenologistsfinger · 12/02/2022 16:01

Some of us like to live in nature because we like nature and wildlife. No reason why nice gentle kind animal loving people cannot live in the country and must be forced go leave it to the brutal violent meathead redneck types.

Queenoftheashes · 12/02/2022 16:03

This is a bit Joffrey if you ask me
They probably force their enemies to look at the bodies when they displease them

goldfluffyclouds · 12/02/2022 16:03

If they are hanging on the outside of their fence for the general public to see and walk past then I would borrow a friends dog and take it for a walk - ooops the dogs run off with the carcass... Every day...
Then they might stop hanging them on full view to the public pavement and keep them inside their own property...

EdithStourton · 12/02/2022 16:04

@Phrenologistsfinger

YANBU. It’s disgusting! Some (many) country people are backwards and grim. I know, I live there too. Tradition my arse!

Cheers. We'd rather think of ourselves as realists, tbh.

I left a brace of pheasants hanging in a friend's porch a few weeks back, in full view of the footpath, because he was out when I called.

I wouldn't leave game out on a fence if I had a choice, but if someone else wanted to I wouldn't complain. But it seems a bit daft as it will get wet, frosted etc even if out of reach of foxes.

AngelinaFibres · 12/02/2022 16:04

@Janesmom

I’ve seen similar in a few places. This kind of thing always struck me as a fairly normal part of country life.

They aren't hanging them there. The normal procedure is that someone gifts you a brace of pheasant( one male one female) that are surplus after a shoot. They hang them on the fence, door, car of the recipient. The recipient takes them into their barn,shed, garge and leaves them to hang in there for several weeks until the meat is ready. Don't like pheasant myself but it's part of country life.

Laiste · 12/02/2022 16:06

House down the lane hangs their pheasants off the porch outside their front door. The odd rabbit also.

We as a family love animals but our kids know we eat certain animals and that they have to be killed in order for us to do that.

I agree it nicer for an animal to be wild and living it's life free and to then be suddenly shot clean dead than the farmed and sent to slaughter life.

justasking111 · 12/02/2022 16:10

Pheasant season ended 11 days ago so you should get some peace now

Skinnydog · 12/02/2022 16:11

Our countryside would look very different without meat eaters, no cows, pigs or sheep etc. also I hate to tell you this but hundreds of animals also die growing crops too. Insects, rabbits, deer, pigeons all die in the form of pest control to protect the fruit,veg and crops etc and not just one or two, lots! Yes pheasants are reared just for shoots, but lots of other sports also revolve around pest control, ratting hundreds can be found in one barn, ferrets to control rabbits, those little seats you see high in trees are to shoot deer. Whether you agree or not animals do die in order for us to eat meat but also everything else too and drink. It all comes at a price

AngelinaFibres · 12/02/2022 16:13

@SoupDragon

it is to hang the meat before they eat it.

Do people generally leave it to "hang" outside for this?

No. Never. It goes inside a shed, barn, garage to hang until it is ready to eat.

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