I am so furious this morning :( My so called animal-lover neighbours left a whole turkey carcass, bones skin etc out last night for the foxes. My pup made a bee-line straight for it this morning. Fortunately, I managed to grab her before she ate more than some skin (I hope). I had walked her a long way, on the lead, before letting her off and she ran all the way back. This has been happening every morning for the last week. I put the dogs on the lead and stormed over to his house and got him out of bed :) He said that 'he hadn't realised that the foxes weren't coming'. He has probably killed them off giving them cooked bones :( :(

He professes to be an animal lover - he has three dogs of his own - you would think that he would know better. Later he came out and collected all the leftovers.

A mad Daisy

Does make you wonder? Some people just don't think? :rolleyes: Julieann xxxx

or just dont care!

Doesn't it just make you mad? I know it's not dog related but my elderly neighbour used to throw crates of old rotten cooking apples over the fence for my horse to eat, she loved my horse and thought she was being nice giving her lots of treats. I shouted at her so many times not to do it, I told her that the horse could die if she actually ate any - and then one day, the horse did die, of colic. The remnants of rotten old cooking apples were lying by the fence the morning I found her dead...

Some people just won't bloody listen!

Lady G

My same neighbour also used to feed the horses in the field behind my house - despite being told not to by the owners.................. :(

Daisy

Sorry about your horse, LadyG :(

I used to keep mine in the field behind my house. I had to go around the outskirts of said field on most weekends and rake the freshly mown lawn cuttings back into the neighbouring gardens.

Does he leave food out for the rats too??? Why would anyone put food out to encourage vermin??? I cannot understand that.

He isn't very popular round here. He goes out to the foxes about 11pm every night in the field next to my house - I can hear him whistling to them when I am in bed :) He leaves the food right next to my hedge. Usually the foxes eat the food - so there isn't a problem, but sometimes they don't and he doesn't clear up afterwards :( As there are horses (well - only one at the moment) in the next field (and chickens) we have a rat problem sometimes any way :( Perhaps now I have complained he will stop. There were three of us this morning (4 dogs) running around trying to stop them eating these bones etc (one lady is elderly and had a job to catch her spaniel).

Daisy

Praps he will learn when his dog is covered in mange:(

We have a huge problem with Foxes were I live, and I don't know what I would do if a neighbour was encouraging them. is your neighbour approacable, could you explain to him that there are illnesses within the fox community that can be passed on to your dogs as well as his!! Maybe he would think again before leaving out food for them.
Good Luck, I hope he doesn't do it again.
Best Wishes
ILOVEDOGS

When i lived in council flats, we had a big communal garden, and several of my less than friendly (but dog owning) neighbours used to chuck the remains of any meat they could in the garden. I was permanently chasing one of my old dogs around the garden, trying to remove chop bones chicken carcasses from her mouth. And, irritatingly, she was the kind of dog that swallows first, and questions the edibility of an item later.
I finally remedied this though. After xmas, i saved up the most disgusting of the bones and food waste i could remove from the dogs, plus the vomit from the dogs puking up the bones, in black bin liners. Then i returned it liberally to the front doors of the flats responsible.
(i must point out here, my neighbours hated me anyway, so it really didnt matter!).
Suprisingly, it didnt happen again, since the ringleaders Jack Russel ate a bone, and had to be taken to the vets to have it removed!
(that was the only thing i was sorry about!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Emma