AIBU to speak to neighbour after rotten chicken left in garden?

[Superfoodie123]

Ive woken up to a swarm of flies everywhere in my garden and the most foul smell. Seen a poo and next to it a literal raw rotten whole chicken ripped out of its packet on the lawn with flies all over it. Sorry if this is making you sick. It was disgusting!!

I dont have pets I'm not a pet person and I strongly suspect the next door neighbours cat had something to do with it. My small children were the ones to find this disgusting mess and im so annoyed.

Went down the side entrance and smell this disgusting smell like cat wee all down it.

First of all, this wasn't even my chicken, no idea where the hell this came from!!

Secondly can anyone help me so that this doesn't happen again? Any advice please! Aibu to talk to my neighbour or will it create tension?

It was a fox

Definitely foxes

Foxes.

This. The fox could have found it anywhere and carried it there

Another one agreeing it's a fox.

And fox poo really stinks. It is usually thin strips.

Defo fox!

try spraying vinegar around the area after you‘ve cleaned up to avoid them coming back

My catt is feral and will eat anything. She once riped open an Amazon parcel and shredded a T-shirt. She's ripped open and eaten a bag of frozen chicken nuggets in the time it took me to carry a couple of shopping bags from the hall to the kitchen. Even she wouldn't be interested in a rotten chicken, nor would she have the strength to drag it anywhere.

My vote is also foxes.

And in answer to your question, the only thing you can do is make sure they can't get in your bins. You could maybe write a polite not to your neighbours warning them of the fox problem and suggesting they keep food waste secure.

Sounds like a fox or a seagull depending where you live. A seagull dropped a roast potato on me in the garden not long ago

But you have no idea this was the neighbour’s chicken. Foxes will drag anything to where they want to eat.

I think something has dragged it out a bin somewhere possibly a fox rather thsn if being lobbed into your garden. I would take photos snd stick them on community Facebook ( or whatever) type page. When I lived in Canada raccoons were the garbage thieves and there’d be much complaining about failures to properly secure bin lids.

Fox. The ones that live in my garden bring the most random stuff from other places; food, shoes, a purse, a pair of gloves, dog toys…

It was clearly a fox why would you presume it was your neighbours cat?? If you talk to you neighbour about it and accuse their cat, they will rightly think you're completely bonkers.

Why would you assume it’s your neighbours cat? I wouldn’t have thought a cat would be interested in a rotten chicken, or found one and had the strength to drag it out of a bin and then continue dragging it across to you lawn, or poo’d next to it. In my experience this is more of a fox like activity.

I wont talk to her then! Caught the cat pooing in my garden so when I saw the poo this morning I assumed it was the cat again

I think a fox. My cats wouldn't be able to drag a whole chicken about.

Thanks guys, clearly I have a fox problem. If anyone has any tips let me know

I wouldn't think any more about it. A fox is an opportunist who just came across the chicken somewhere, like an unsecured bin or bin bag that it ripped open. That probably won't happen again. There are foxes everywhere.

You don't have a fox problem you have a single instance of an opportunistic fox and it's unlikely to happen again. You really don't need to do anything.

I think with foxes it’s best if the neighbourhood are all careful with their waste. To just protect your garden a sonic device and / or cheap white vinegar sloshed liberally at entrance / pathways as smell is off putting. With foxes you can find their poo surpringly high up on bushes.

I’ve seen our cat going down the bloke over the road’s food waste bin

Please not a sonic device though. Plenty of people can hear them too.

Fox wee also smells very strongly.

How old are you? If you've got kids, presumably 30's? And yet this is the first time its happened to you. If it's once every 30 years, don't you think it's maybe a bit of an overreaction to stress this much and start planning to avoid it. It's just a chicken.