As far as the mountain men thinking the beaver tail was a delicacy, can’t say I would agree.. It was neat to look at for sure.. But I can’t see it being very good. Dogs didn’t really mess with it much even, I think they just liked the idea of bringing it back.

Anyway, the two dogs we had growing up were always bringing things home. Living near woods, meant the majority of them were deer related, whether it was a spine, head or leg, I had pretty much seen it all. Mom would send me out to clean up the mess, but more often than not a leg would somehow magically reappear within a couple days. Sometimes I would just let them keep them as it didn’t seem to hurt them, but when I did have to take the various body parts from them I never really had a problem. Even with them being Siberian Husky mixes of sorts, they would allow even a child (I may have barely been a teenager) take most anything from them, even hot dogs.. (guess I somehow convinced them that I was boss at a young age ) The weirdest thing that they ever brought home was a beaver tail. At first I was rather baffled at the brown thing I saw them chewing.. I walked up to them and after further inspection came to the conclusion that it HAD to be a beaver tail. It may seem odd that they would come across such a trophy, but we did have a lake within walking distance that I knew for a fact had beavers. Who knows what happened to the rest of the carcass, but I’m happy all they brought back was the tail, seemed totally harmless, but I picked it up anyhow as I didn’t think mom would have the same appreciation for their trophy.