I looked out of the lounge window this morning and said "Huh. There appears to be a head of femur in the flower bed". As you do.
Definitely mammalian. Too small to be human. My first thought was that it was from a fox, as we've got quite a lot round here (I think they're living in our basement). But once I actually picked it up to look at it, it was clear that it hadn't been naturally predated, as the femur was sharply and diagonally cut, not shattered or broken.
So my thoughts are that it's pig or sheep. Probably scavenged by the foxes from someone's bin in the area and picked clean of meat and the best part of the marrow. I'm no good on cuts of meat though, so if anyone's a butcher or knows a butcher, which animal would be cut so that the head of femur was included in the chop?
Definitely mammalian. Too small to be human. My first thought was that it was from a fox, as we've got quite a lot round here (I think they're living in our basement). But once I actually picked it up to look at it, it was clear that it hadn't been naturally predated, as the femur was sharply and diagonally cut, not shattered or broken.
So my thoughts are that it's pig or sheep. Probably scavenged by the foxes from someone's bin in the area and picked clean of meat and the best part of the marrow. I'm no good on cuts of meat though, so if anyone's a butcher or knows a butcher, which animal would be cut so that the head of femur was included in the chop?
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