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

[Bdg212]

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.

Probably depends on your relationship with them. if you know them, you could perhaps say, any chance you could move those round to the side of the house as they make me a bit squeamish!- they might oblige. If you don't know them well, I'd be prepared for them to tell you they can do what they like in their own garden and mund your own business sort of thing. If it's really bothering you, worth an ask.

Normal to hang game but front fence is rather weird.

@Tornado70

I would hate this. I’m vegan and would find it incredibly distressing. I would politely ask them to place them where they are not publicly visible. If they didn’t, I would get some advice from a vegan organisation. I do hope it gets sorted.

Presumably they’d say ‘nothing we can do because it’s totally legal to hang pheasant on your own property’.

My cat would be on it straight away. He stole a cooked chicken when my neighbour left his door open . I'm surprised animals haven't been at them

Yes, hang outside as cool ,but pheasant season is over now until the Autumn so should be no mor pheasants anyway

I've found dead rats in garden courtesy of the cats and they aren't looking there best after a couple of days.

They would still be edible unless you live somewhere warm.

I hang ours in the garage, but I have been known to pop it in the fence for a few hours if we've just got back while I sort everything out.

@mycatthinksshesatiger

I'm vegan and couldn't stomach this. I woukd explain to them that it caused offence and hope they would respect that. Everyone can do what they please in their own homes but when it disturbs other people there is a line. There are lots of parallels with sexual practices, religious rituals etc that I think everyone would agree wouldn't be appropriate to rub in your neighbours' faces. Veganism is a philopsophy recognised by law so I'd play that card if I had to...

I wonder if Op has been asked to join the local bell ringers or the village Hall amateur dramatics group. Awful lot of shared 'sexual practices' there. It gets dark early in the countryside.

@EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall

My cat would be on it straight away. He stole a cooked chicken when my neighbour left his door open . I'm surprised animals haven't been at them

My old fat cat took three Sunday lunches before they learned to shut the window I never did find out whose house he was robbing (or I would have apologised and replaced the food) it was the best reason the vet had ever heard for why my overweight cat isn't on a diet on a Sunday

Mmm.. how much and how long is it there for?

I would think it is someone else hanging it there when they're out, for them to bring in when they come home.

Rural here - again if I asked someone for a brace of rabbits, I would expect to find them hung in my open porch or if at my dads, on the gate if I were out when they were passing...

Maybe just ask them nicely if they can hang them somewhere else? No harm in asking.

I'm amazed they don't disappear overnight, a combination of foxes, Red Kites, Crows and Magpies soon clears everything but the skeleton of anything dead in my neck of the woods.

Is there a sign reading "here hare here" ?

@Zazdar

I've found dead rats in garden courtesy of the cats and they aren't looking there best after a couple of days.

They would still be edible unless you live somewhere warm.

My neighbour eats roadkill. His boundaries are that it must not be totally mangled and must have been a recent kill. He eats deer, badger, rabbits. Basically everything, but rats....probably. l don't fancy dinner at his house personally but it doesn't offend me if he leaves something outside until he is ready to deal with it. It's none of my business.

@powershowerforanhour

Bit weird. Everyone I know hangs game in a shed or garage. Won't the magpies get it? The shooting groups my husband is on on FB and the friends he shoots with would take a dim view of this- shoving it in other people's faces is not really considered the done thing.

Came on to say this. Me and my partner used to shoot. We had pheasant and geese hung up in the shed. Rabbit and pigeon would be skinned and soaked in milk and in the pantry

Just don’t look.
I’d rather children understood where meat came from as early as possible. This wouldn’t bother me at all although I don’t eat meat.

Pet vulture?

How else is he to show off his manly prowess . It takes a big brave man to take out a rabbit or a pheasant and he obviously wants to show the neighbourhood what a good provider he is.

Lol at “think of the children” argument.
God forbid children grow up knowing where food comes from.

YABU, OP.

They’re hung in order for the meat to tenderise, basically begin to break down. Sounds gross but quite common in a lot of meats, flies etc not normally an issue this time of year, but personally I wouldn’t want someone’s cat/dog child poking around with my dinner or terrorising the local vegetarians so I’d hang mine in back garden or porch etc. I’d imagine they’re a gift or someone’s due to pick them up. Quite common as a child to walk home from school and find dead things hanging on front door.

Hunting prowess is nothing to sniff at - if shit hits the fan, you DO want to be around people who can hunt and provide.

I remember my mil absolutely disgusted when she met my 3 year old who told her eggs come from chickens bums, she could also identify which animals they used to be eg sausages are pigs. Nothing gross just as she grew she was informed where things came from, mil on other hand was completely horrified that she knew this and especially didn’t want to know as it put her off. I found her approach as weird and as horrifying as she did mine

Basically everything, but rats...

I must admit that I’ve never eaten a rat. Squirrel is about as close as I have come.

7Worfs lol my husband is a towny and I know full well if it comes down to it me and my daughter will the alpha providers lol

@AngelinaFibres

The countryside only looks like it does because it is managed by farmers. Its a business. Everything that is produced is done with the aim of maximum yield. That applies whether it is pheasants, cattle or wheat. Everything is grown to feed something else . Pheasants are bred and fed throughout the year as a crop for the shoots in the autumn .A lot of people have extra jobs as beaters which enables them to live in the area. The local pub benefits from the pre shoot breakfast and the after shoot dinner.Attending a shoot costs money. I very much doubt the birds on your neighbours fence are there for more than a couple of hours. If they intend to eat them they certainly won't be leaving them outside. That's not how hanging works. If a friend is coming to collect the surplus birds they will have a plan for that. Nobody wants to eat something rats have had a go at first.

All of the above.

I was sure this post was going to be about dead moles. I’ve survived to adulthood unscarred by seeing them hanging on fences.

Pheasants and other game are always hung indoors somewhere. You wouldn’t leave your Sunday roast joint on the fence, it’s exactly the same. They can’t possibly be there more than temporarily. Therefore YABU.