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.

@HunkyPunk

I’m now worrying about the hypothetical situation where I’m living in the country and various friendly neighbours place random game in my porch as a kind gesture. How on earth would I swerve that without coming across as a weird townie? Do people in this position have to skin/pluck them and everything? How do you learn how to do it - does YouTube have videos?

Yes- people are very generous with time and would Definitely offer help and guidance!

@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.

Not accurate I'm afraid. Pheasants are livestock and of the millions that are released each year, only about 1/3 are shot. The rest are predated, starve or die on the roads as they're not adapted to life in the wild, having been pen reared. Pheasant shooting is far far worse than grouse shooting, it's an artifical practice which pollutes our habitats and I hope it dies out soon. Pheasant biomass outweighs wild bird total biomass, it completely skews our natural ecosystem.

Dunno, when I was gifted 20 brace (mix of birds), I hung them in the shed. Hanging them outside would have been a feast for the local foxes!

They leave them out overnight. Never seen any foxes, wouldn’t be surprised if farmer shoots them sadly as I know he traps the magpies and crows ☹️

Those people who think country people are 'disgusting and grim' obviously don't have much experience of people in countryside- but probably read crap online highlighting horrors- which can equally be highlighted for townie people.
This whole townie/country people is so infuriating. Most people are actually just kind and helpful on both sides. Those that have experience the other way, it probably says more about you than anyone else....

The shooting industry have accepted that pheasants are dependent on supplementary feeding & therefore classified as livestock, in order to make it possible to get licences for controlling wild animals who predate on them, like buzzards.
It's messed up.

They wouldn't last long with London foxes.

It's good for the kids to see the awful reality of eating animals. It might turn a few veggie.

@Suzanne999

YANBU. Their dead animals, they hang them where only they can see them. Inconsiderate.

Can't you read? OP said clearly in her opening post "for all to see".

I think Suzanne999 meant that they ought to hang them where only they can see them

I hate people who kill animals.

That's a worldwide lot of hate.

I don’t get this argument cause not many people even eat pheasant or rabbit anyway. You won’t find it in Tesco.. lol

What you mean is you don't happen to know any. I live in a town and eat both. My dim and backward country friends give them to me, but I could easily get them in any local supermarket or butcher.

Out overnight suggests possible being dropped off but they've not realised, or, left out for those who want to collect.

Is it possible your neighbours sometimes go beating, do they have spaniels, and are then given some birds from the shoot? Is one of them a gamekeeper or friends with one?

I think these scenarios are far more likely than 'trying to intimidate people by using dead animals to imply ownership of a shotgun'... or showing off... I think its much more likely they've never considered anyone may worry about it upsetting children or adults.

Get a cat. A male Bengal cat is my recommendation in this instance!

Your neighbours would soon loose the enthusiasm for leaving dead things lying around as they would quickly disappear...

But be prepared for those dead things to reappear partly eaten outside your bedroom door!! Yum decapitated bunny!!

Btw I know this about Bengals because I've caught my neighbours gorgeous but deadly cat chomping on a freshly caught squirrel head (eww) while another friend's Bengal dragged dead rabbits through the cat flap.. nice.
So glad I have an indoor cat.

Or a male Burmese.

Pheasants are not native wildlife, they’ve actually replaced our own native version and as someone else said sadly I agree with the buzzards but that’s a whole other argument. Pheasants you see running around are either the minority who survived, ones who’ve wandered further than expected. They are literally reared as chicks in big pens, go to bigger more naturalistic enclosures and released. It’s a sport, some are eaten, some aren’t depending on who’s shot them.

Very much surprised they’ve been left out overnight though

Find the whole hate animal killers stance very odd, presumably you’re vegan, don’t use make up or medicine as it’s all been tested on animals, don’t use perfume, deodorant toiletries, again tested on or made from them, whether you like it or not your home was some animals habitat, your food you eat involved pest control. It’s impossible to be human and not have any animals die because of you

@Phrenologistsfinger

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

Oooh nooo some random is hoiking judgy pants! Boo fucking hoo! 🤣

My children have pet chickens and still have to walk past the dead chickens in the supermarket. My eldest asked me what one was in the shop the other day so I just said it was a dead chicken with the feathers pulled off because some people eat them instead of burying them.

@Skinnydog

Find the whole hate animal killers stance very odd, presumably you’re vegan, don’t use make up or medicine as it’s all been tested on animals, don’t use perfume, deodorant toiletries, again tested on or made from them, whether you like it or not your home was some animals habitat, your food you eat involved pest control. It’s impossible to be human and not have any animals die because of you

I don't kill animals for enjoyment.

By the way killing a pheasant is only poaching if it is done on private land. I would not kill a pheasant. But it would be really easy for me to kill one wandering about country lanes. I see them all the time.

As a current vegetarian who used to shoot and eat pigeon, pheasant and rabbit I know how to hang and store them but a front garden fence is ridiculous. Yes, you do hang them to season them as other meat is hung. But in the cool not on a front garden fence where cats, dogs, foxes, birds and badgers will have a field day. And where game will rot in the heat rather than season in the cold. Your neighbours seem like perfomance numpties rather than genuine country people. Have they even cleaned them out? Grief.

Pheasant is okay but not my favourite. We had mallard tonight that was good. Hanging game outdoors like this is odd, drives dogs crackers for a start, never mind cats.