― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link
The next nearest village is a few miles away, so it's possible that he escaped from his own garden and ended up lost in our wood, but it's still strange that nobody was asking around if a dog had been found. I can't think of any poison which he may have found - people round here sometimes put down poisoned rat or mole pellets, but it's rare. It's agricultural land mainly, so maybe it was some kind of paraquat weedkiller used by a farmer. Or he could have eaten and animal which had previously been poisoned.
Other than that, there's pheasant shooting in that wood during November and December so he might have been peppered with shot accidentally, but I would have thought that he'd have made a commotion and the hunt/point/retrieve dogs on the shoot would have found him.
The wood is owned by the family of John Buchan who wrote the 39 Steps. Maybe they could turn this into a mystery novel!
― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link
My only explanation for this is that the skull belongs to Goofy.
― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike McG (yetimike), Thursday, 7 December 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 7 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I was talking to the gamekeeper who looks after that area of land the other day and he said it was strange that he'd not noticed the skeleton there before, since he spends a lot of time in those woods. Odd.
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link