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Really wierd thing happened on Sunday, got back from walking our lurcher puppy and she went straight round into the back garden, 10 mins later she hadn't come in so went round to find her and she was eating what appeared to be a huge leg of lamb. It was fresh and certainly didn't belong to us - so how on earth had it got into our garden and why? Took it away from her but just seems really odd, she stays only in the garden and can't get out so she definately hadn't stolen it from somewhere so someone must have put it into our garden. My husband asked our neighbours but it wasn't them! Very strange and a little worrying.
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Very bizarre, maybe a fox or something stole it and got frightened off before eating it?? The foxes in our garden leave all manner of things behind, including a poo on top of any the bones or toys our boy leaves out there!
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I would have let her carry on! Free meat and all that. How odd.

I do remember a frozen leg of lamb being used as a kosh during a football riot over here once, those errant joints seem to turn up everywhere
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I really hope this is not the case in the UK, but in Italy dog poisoning is very very common (especially among neighbours it seems... people who are annoyed by their neighbours' dogs and just poison them) and the easiest way is to give poisoned meat or cheese to the dogs in question, or throw it in the garden. That's why it is so important that dogs do not eat things they find on the floor without your permission...

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Thats what worried me - although would have thought if you were going to poison a dog you'd use a bit of steak or a sausage, not a big expensive leg of lamb! Not sure it was a fox either as the chickens were ok! We don't even have any people passing our garden either, live in a very small, quiet cul-de-sac with just a few houses in a no-through lane and open fields behind us.
 
God I never even thought about the poisoning thing, I feel quite naive now! We live in the middle of nowhere too, I never even thought.

One of my mum's dogs was poisoned years ago but it was bits of bread soaked in chemicals
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Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, and I am sure that it's not a big problem in the UK as it is in Italy. Plus if you live in a quiet area etc. there would be no reason for anyone to poison your dog.

Sorry to hear that CC
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Years ago our neighbour's dog was also poisoned like that, and they suspect some other neighbours but obviously have no proof. It didn't even have anything to do with the dog at all - it was just a feud between two households and in the end it was the dog who paid the consequences
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When we had just got Beezle and Peanuts and were living with my parents, in a flat while our house was being renovated, we often went out in the morning to find big pieces of Parmesan on the floor, in the shared courtyard... I never actually touched them (though I was tempted to have them analysed! But I have no idea how easy it is and more importantly who'd do it) but I am pretty sure they were there for a reason (maybe to kill stray cats, I don't know). It's just implausible that people keep dropping big pieces of Parmesan on the floor day after day, unless they are very very clumsy
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Now even I would fall for big lumps of cheese lying around
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The man who killed Glen hated dogs, he walked up and down the road tossing the bread over the gates of any houses with dogs in
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The GSD ingested it but survived. Glen was a collie.

But like you say, hopefully this is not the case here!

Still very random.....
 
When I was a kid there was a spate of dog poisoning in the town I lived in, with someone leaving bits of meat in areas where people let their dog run etc. Horrid.

But I really can't see someone using a leg of lamb for that!

Could be foxes? We found a very large bone in our yard one day and have had bones and dog toy disappear as mysteriously. We have regular fox traffic so figure it must be them.
 
Our friends cat once came home with a VERY large joint of beef - closely followed by his next door neighbour who had spotted the cat just as it legged it through the kitchen window
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