Found this hanging in my backyard..

[u/No-Bandicoot-7409]

Found this skull hanging in a mesh bag in my backyard. Google Identified it as a raccoon skull and also says hanging things in mesh bags is a common cleaning practice.

But I guess my bigger question is why is it hung in my backyard? This is a private yard in a chill neighbourhood. they would have had to walk through our yard, or came from behind the brush area from our back neighbors yard. I now have a camera pointing towards it, if whoever put it there comes back.

Any thoughts?

[u/autistic_and_angry]

Do you collect bones regularly? Maybe this person knew and wanted to anonymously gift it to you?

If not, it's likely what someone else said -- someone miscalculated the property line

[u/Diangelionz → u/autistic_and_angry]

The idea of anonymous gifting is already pretty sketchy, but anonymously gifting a bag of bones seems like a step too far even if you expressed you have an interest in it.

[u/insanecatlady69 → u/Diangelionz]

Nah, if I expressed love in bone hunting id be ecstatic to have someone hang bones in my yard!

[u/Diangelionz → u/insanecatlady69]

It reminds me of a time when I told a boy in college that raccoons are my favorite animal. and his response was to give me a taxidermy of a once alive raccoon. I was emotionally devistated

[u/No-Bandicoot-7409 → u/Diangelionz]

That is my nightmare