dead fox - ***grisly***

[Lance Morgan]

Originally Posted by fairplay

I thought I mentioned that: "For the Squire to see the job was being done"

Neil.

So you did

[posie]

Is it possible that the corpses were hung up as bait to attract carrion or raptor so that he (or she) with the gun had further easy targets (for 'sport')

[fairplay]

No

Neil.

[Kittiwake]

I was 7 years old. My dad was playing in a village cricket match and, about an hour into the game, I decided to wander over the stile into the neighbouring field to explore.

I skipped around the edge of the field and as I turned the corner, I was faced with a grizzly parade of dead animals, hung on the barbed wire fence - all at about eye level to me (I was a little girl for my age). All I remember is lots of dead staring eyes and open mouths/beaks and ragged wings.

I'd never felt such fear and utter horror.

A vermin line, I was later told. I never went to that fixture again.

As some here have said, it's not a common practice these days thankfully.