the skeleton in my backyard

We found this the other day under a bush behind our house. Anyone recognize the critter?

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We were thinking maybe a deer.

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ March 31, 2005 05:07 PM: Message edited by: sculpey ]</font>

Yep,thats a Deer

It's a young doe. You never noticed the smell?

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Originally posted by sculpey:
We found this the other day under a bush behind out house.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nevermind... [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]

Nope, never noticed the smell. Which I thought was kind of odd cause it's only a couple of hundred feet from the house.

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Originally posted by Nostromer:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by sculpey:
We found this the other day under a bush behind out house.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nevermind... [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">ooops.. fixed that.

Wow, that got polished off real clean. Anybody know how long it would take for it to decompose like that? Call in CSI.

A few months, give or take a year. The bones are far apart and many of them appear to be missing (legs), which means dogs and other feral critters took care of most of it, and then insects devoured the skin and sinew. From the shots anyway, the good news is either that A) there are no rats or mice to have chewed the bones, or B) that the rats and mice have ample calcium in their diet and didn't need to chew on the bones... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

We get hunters that toss deer carcasses in the field by our house after they've been butchered. I was gonna suggest that but they wouldn't have tossed the head. But that would account for how quickly it decomposed without the smell.

Gee whiz. At least the poachers in PA are courteous enough to dump their carcasses in garbage bags most of the time. They usually only keep the head when it has horns on it, so it's still a possibility. But if the animal was under a bush then most likely she went there to die. I'd say a Nissan Pathfinder did her in.

Jeez! What a nice thing to find in the back yard! http://www.hostboard.com/forums/

At least it wasn't freshly dead!

deer?
wrong.

that's obviously a dinosaur.
call David Suzuki, quick.

If that's the case, then it probably came from or was killed by that strange object that Sculp hit with his lawnmower!

depends on heat and moisture, time, animal and bugs eating on it to completely turn it to a skeleton. pretty cool. I'd bleach it and sit it in a cool place in the garden

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Originally posted by Nostromer:
If that's the case, then it probably came from or was killed by that strange object that Sculp hit with his lawnmower!

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I think we're onto something.

glue, most likely, but still...


and I agree w/Chaser.
you gotta use it for something!

we have a cow skull on the bedroom wall.

we're SO white trash. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by chaserfan:
depends on heat and moisture, time, animal and bugs eating on it to completely turn it to a skeleton. pretty cool. I'd bleach it and sit it in a cool place in the garden

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Along with a sign : Do not feed the animals!

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ March 31, 2005 06:30 PM: Message edited by: ThatChetGuy ]</font>

...well, Sculp, you have a big karmic decision to make, now...what will you do? What will you do?

lol Chet, that would be funny as hell!

I have a skull of a coyote with one canine painting gold in my snakes tank

I was going to bring the skull home and do something with it, but couldn't bring myself to do it for some reason. I'm just going to leave it there.

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Originally posted by sculpey:
I was going to bring the skull home and do something with it, but couldn't bring myself to do it for some reason. I'm just going to leave it there.

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Good man.

...however, you might consider going back and burying it all.

sounds kinda hippie-ish for such an evil entity...

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Originally posted by AcroPeek:
sounds kinda hippie-ish for such an evil entity...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...I'm a heathen, you fucktard. [img]wink.gif[/img]

and heathens are hippies? [img]confused.gif[/img]

do you hug trees as well?
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Sculpey, if you wanna grab the skull and bones, my wife wants to buy them. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

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sorry.
couldn't resist.

and I din't wanna ask, but she kept bugging me.

*whispers*
say no....

Jesus, I just re-read my posts, and I think I came off like a real prick.
not my intention.
sorry, guys. [img]redface.gif[/img]

I'd keep the skull and spine, put in my collection.... um, I mean... I'd save those ones, yeah! [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

You can't really tell from that pic, but the skeleton is under what would be a large group of bushes in the summer. I figure the deer went under them to lay down and die. There it will remain.

probably the best thing for it, but that skull is wicked-cool, nonetheless [img]tongue.gif[/img]

You should bring the skull into your house and set up some kind of custom diorama. The wife would surely love it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

What a bunch of "Predators" we have here!

Good decision Sculp. Circle of life and all that crap. [img]wink.gif[/img]

pretty neat find but i wouldn't touch it either

One of our dogs once brought home two deer legs. They weren't entirely fresh, but still had some hair and sinew and bits of dried out flesh attached. He came trotting home with them, pleased as could be..dropped one on the back porch, and kept the other for himself. We had a hard time getting it away from him.

Hunters just sort of dump things where they please, here. I've seen all the pieces they don't want just tossed on the side of the road.

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Originally posted by AcroPeek:
and heathens are hippies? [img]confused.gif[/img]

do you hug trees as well?
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Sculpey, if you wanna grab the skull and bones, my wife wants to buy them. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">He doesn't hug trees, but he does cavort under them while smeared with the blood of his victims. Don't you know anything about demonic rituals??

Make a wind chime out of it, like on Texas Chainsaw.

Or, put the skull on a stick as a warning to all your neighbors.

Or just leave it, it's probably all icky.

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Originally posted by TheUnquietGrave:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AcroPeek:
and heathens are hippies? [img]confused.gif[/img]

do you hug trees as well?
[img]wink.gif[/img]


Sculpey, if you wanna grab the skull and bones, my wife wants to buy them. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">He doesn't hug trees, but he does cavort under them while smeared with the blood of his victims. Don't you know anything about demonic rituals??</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...Tort! You're the peeping tom?!? [img]wink.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by TheUnquietGrave:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AcroPeek:
and heathens are hippies? [img]confused.gif[/img]

do you hug trees as well?
[img]wink.gif[/img]


Sculpey, if you wanna grab the skull and bones, my wife wants to buy them. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">He doesn't hug trees, but he does cavort under them while smeared with the blood of his victims. Don't you know anything about demonic rituals??</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">...Tort! You're the peeping tom?!? [img]wink.gif[/img] </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">um..uh...I...errrr...hey! look over there! it's an innocent virgin!

*runs*

WHERE?!?!?!?

...oh.

Cursed wiley mortal women...

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