A large slab of mincemeat found in my garden!

[Orangebadger]

So my dog had been hanging around the back of the garden shed this morning for a lot longer than normal, eventually came back on for breakfast. But straight away back out again, I then noticed a red lump of something that initially I thought was an old shoe. Dog loves smelly shoes so would explain why she was out a lot. Anyway I did not investigate as it's freezing and I am also sick right now. But probably should have checked that it was a shoe and thought what is that doing there, but I did not. Roll on an hour later, DD has taken dog for a walk and when she's come back straight to the garden carrying this red thing when I now realise this is not a shoe... it's about 1kg of mince meat!

WTH chucks that into a neighbours garden?? Why don't you just freeze it and put it out with the next rubbish? So it's one of 2 neighbours at the back of the garden, neighbour 1 would probably struggle to get in the corner as their shed is wedged in there, but not totally impossible. Neighbour 2 could easily just chuck it behind our shed. I think it's neighbour 2, they look like they are doing a massive clear out as all windows and doors are open ( it's 2 degrees!)

So DH thinks we should leave it as a one off, I don't agree. I would quite happily knock on their door and ask/ them, or write a note and pop it though there door.

What to do??

More then once I found male underwear in my garden. They were not from some perverted neighbour, just a present from foxes (who bring me all sorts of interesting things).

I once found a decapitated pidgeon on my doorstep. No blood or signs of struggle, just a perfect headless pidgeon. It gave me voodoo vibes. A few days later I found a dead pidgeon on my doorstep with a perfectly round hole in his chest where, I assume, his heart would have been. I started to freak out… A few days later I caught the culprit in action- a seagull

You don’t carry it, because some Holman has chopped it’s head off, so the scruff of the neck is insufficient. You drag it, usually between your front paws, by the leg or possibly the wing ( but that’s small and sharp so the leg is better).

Dictated by Tiddles the super thief who lives with the poster

My bet is on a thieving cat dragging it through the cat flap, we caught a random cat with a half thawed chop once, summer time so door open it had nipped in to steal.

Not seagulls, they are super greedy but not bright so wouldn't leave behind a shed. Also too heavy I would think, Foxes maybe,

I was about to ask if you’re a cat!! I was seriously impressed!!

I’ve seen a fox jump a 7ft fence, my garden is dog proof but we get foxes in it.

This. It happens.

Are you familiar with the Kentucky meat shower of 1876? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

Fox, crow, cat anything else.

Yep it still got it, we put it in the shed, so the label is a bit damaged and hard to read!
Not sure I would want to drink it, but delighted to return it to it’s rightful owner 😂 🍷

I'd put money on it being a fox.

I was out v early one morning in the back garden last summer, sitting quietly drinking a cup of tea, and a fox jumped onto the top of the garden wall with a whole burger, bun and all, in his mouth.

He looked v pleased with himself- and v surprised to see me.

It's a 12 foot wall. But some structures behind so the fox can do a double jump. Foxes are amazing jumpers.

God knows how she managed it. We actually had three cats at the time but I couldn’t quite see them working as a team to bring it home! We just found her trying to pull it through the cat flap while the others watched 😂

That's a brilliant image @WolfFoxHare 🤣

That could well be true, I've seen posts in the past where cats have stolen Turkey legs ect and taken them home

I once had a huge salmon in my garden, can only guess a bird of prey dropped it or a cat had stolen it from a kitchen worktop.

Salmon wasn't gutted so don't think any of my neighbours were secret poachers.

I regularly find various parts of a roast dinner in my garden. Eventually worked out that the house 2 doors away were putting leftovers out for the Rooks/Crows who then dropped it on the way over mine. Yorkshire Pud on the doorstep was just odd.

Leave it ...it belongs to a fox just bin it

I think of all the animal options it's most likely a fox as so many around here.

Bizarre thing about the house at the back, all their windows are still open with curtains flapping outside, one window looks like part of it has come off! Also on looking this morning from our loft room there are loads of green bags and white things ( not sure what) all over their garden. Might be that a fox bought it over from there? But what's going on it that house, I hope they haven't been burgled. It snowed last night and now pouring with rain and freezing so why are those windows open and have been open since yesterday morning?

I saw a seagull flying off with half of a large pizza last summer. 😂