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.

@Onlyforcake

Maybe it's an advert for shooty swingers?

Ooo a rural version of pampas grass and inverted pineapples. Well I shall look at my neighbours in a different way now

I hate people who kill animals.

Tell me your address, I'll remove the problem now it's dark !

@CheeseCakeSunflowers

I'm a church bellringer at our village church and I use to a member of the village amateur dramatics group. We must have missed the memo about these practices.

Bet the rest of your group haven't

@7Worfs

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

Oh I'm a very good shot actually, but I'm vegetarian so only at target's Exactly how long do you think the UK wildlife would provide food for our population, when the shit hits the fan?

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. I agree with this. My dh shoots and we were farmers, and whilst I don't agree with the traumatic to the kids or vegans arguments, for me its a respect thing.

Killing animals to eat them is a core human activity, surely even non-meaters can see it?

@TiddyTidTwo

Bit performative of them though, isn't it

I think this too. Some people love to show off.

My neighbours do this with foxes and I hope they don't eat them.It seems to be a neanderthal showing off instinct.

@MrsWinters

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

😂😂😂 Lived here all my life and I ain’t moving.

AngelinaFibres
No, pheasants are not a "crop".
They are a wild British bird, who are perfectly adapted to live wild lives, I have several who visit my garden. They do not need feeding.
Gamekeepers feed them up to be shot but they are perfectly capable of living in the wild.

Veganism is a philopsophy recognised by law so I'd play that card if I had to...

Don't play that card, you will look silly. It's a protected characteristic in employment law and prevents discrimination in the work place. It doesn't mean it can just be bandied around so vegans can get their own way when they feel like it .

Another rural person here and I've never heard of people hanging game from the front fence unless you want someone, or something, else to take them away.

I don't think you would be unreasonable to ask them to put them somewhere else, most people I know would be sensitive to keeping them out of sight of vegetarian neighbours. Not many people intentionally want to upset people , in spite of a PPs very negative view of country people.

Yeah, they're being exhibitionist or perhaps hoping someone will want to knock and buy one as an advert. But they should hang them in their sightline only IMO, grim!

@Skinnydog

I disagree I’ve lived in both, animals die for all sorts of reasons, food, pest control, sport, abuse and I think that crosses town and countryside. Many would argue fishing isn’t particularly pleasant for the fish even if they are thrown back, inner city children catapaulting pigeons etc, I mean where do you draw the line? Where I live we cut down and set fire to parts of the land for tick control that’s vital for disease control but no doubt other animals are caught up in it too that also includes culling deer numbers too, it’s not as straight forward as we think sometimes. Facrmers also maintain vital hedgerows for wildlife etc swings and roundabouts

Who allows their children to catapult pigeons!!! Inner-city dweller here and I have NEVER seen that.

@StScholastica

AngelinaFibres No, pheasants are not a "crop". They are a wild British bird, who are perfectly adapted to live wild lives, I have several who visit my garden. They do not need feeding. Gamekeepers feed them up to be shot but they are perfectly capable of living in the wild.

They aren't really wild. They are fed and actively encouraged. I have to be really careful a few places I go for a walk as they wander around the car park and lanes and are pretty tame.

Maybe they are desperate for a vegetarian to knock on the door so that they can have an argument. There are some strange people about.

I cant picture this fence. Surely on an ordinary fence the foxes would just eat them.

I can't work out why they would hang them on the front fence - are they showing off and deliberately trying to be 'in yer face'?

We noticed our neighbours had half a dozen dead pheasants hanging over his gate. He's a gamekeeper so a surprise but not a shock. My only concern was my dog didn't get them. If your issue is because you are "a veggie" then it won't help your none case.

I wouldnt stop my dog getting one.

@StScholastica

AngelinaFibres No, pheasants are not a "crop". They are a wild British bird, who are perfectly adapted to live wild lives, I have several who visit my garden. They do not need feeding. Gamekeepers feed them up to be shot but they are perfectly capable of living in the wild.

Just googled it. Pheasants have an average life span of one year They are a prey species and suffer significant mortality rates from the minute they become an egg in a nest. In a bad weather year they have a 20% chance of survival . Better to be fed and to be shot quickly and cleanly than wander about with an injury or disease and be ripped to bits by a fox.

And destroy the countryside in the process to create grouse moors.

Do you think they’re doing it in an attempt to intimidate others? Showing that they have guns in the house by hanging dead things at the front of the property?

@StScholastica

AngelinaFibres No, pheasants are not a "crop". They are a wild British bird, who are perfectly adapted to live wild lives, I have several who visit my garden. They do not need feeding. Gamekeepers feed them up to be shot but they are perfectly capable of living in the wild.

They are not a wild british bird They are farmed semi wild birds. The gamekeeper or owner of the shoot buys them i. At about £4 each, they are then kept in a pen where they are fed, eventually they fly out of the pen and for several weeks they will be dogged in, ie, use gun dogs to flush them back to the pen. Eventually they go their own way and they are feeders dotted arou d to encourage them tostay in the area ready for the shoot days. By the time shooting season comes along they will have cost the shoot around £15 each to raise.

@Phrenologistsfinger

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

Wow.

(I also thought this was going to be about moles.)