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  choughman February 10, 2009 at 8:19pm

  I was once asked to dig a grave for a cat. Not particularly unusual except for the fact that when it came to burying it i found a very healthy purring beast, sitting in the box! He lived for 3years before i had to re dig the grave!!
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  Kieran Ray December 19, 2011 at 9:19pm

  Nothing too unusual. We have offten had the, can you let the dog out around lunch time to wonder around the garden please. Which is ok until they walk on the paving you have just laid!

  Nothing too unusual.
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  Graeme @ BGS December 19, 2011 at 9:31pm

  A dead mouse for a WAG - See http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/would-you-respond...
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  Chris Auld December 19, 2011 at 9:37pm

  A middle aged divorcee once asked me to perform a 'service' which i wont mention on here, I dont think Phil would approve but im sure you can imagine what it was. Needless to say, i didn't.
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  andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance December 19, 2011 at 9:38pm

  I think emptying and cleaning out a fish tank probably ranks as the strangest, second would be rescuing a cat out of a tree, and in third place would be removing a collar dove from a customers kitchen that took quite some catching!
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  Chris Auld December 19, 2011 at 9:43pm

  Another one i just remembered, got a phone call from a distraught woman whos cat had got stuck up a tree, she wanted me to climb up and rescue it because i offered 'tree work' on a flyer i had posted through her door a few days earlier. So i went out to look at it but the cat was about 30` up and there were no branches to climb, how on earth the cat got up there i dont know!
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  GORDON December 19, 2011 at 10:45pm

  I have one for you, not quite what you had in mind but true never the less

   15 years old, just started an apprenticeship. Arrived at work one day to be advised the owners father had died the previous night, his Mother and Father lived in a bungalow next to the workshop  Later that day the owner approached and asked if would mind  going  next door to assist the undertakers. At 15 years I wouldn’t say” boo” to a goose, so proceeded with trepidation. 

   The problem was soon apparent, there was only a back door to the bungalow and the exit turned at 90deg directly into a narrow porch, It was clear there was no way a 7ft coffin was going to turn that corner………. I stood there thinking “oh what the ------are they thinking of doing next”…... Well they did just that and being 15years old  I just caught hold of where I was told and eventually the old man was turned around the corner followed by a near vertical coffin  ..

   I was an apprentice panel beater, to which the place of work was known as the body shop. Didn’t imagine for one moment it entailed anything other than vehicle bodies
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  Paving & Landscaping December 19, 2011 at 10:55pm

  I was once asked by a very scantily dressed lady to help her in the bedroom, imagine how gutted I felt when I ended up moving her wardrobe.
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  David Benson December 19, 2011 at 11:14pm

  i have dug several graves for dogs, cats, birds, goats, etc but the strangest thing was for a sick pony the vet was called and had to put it down i was asked to stay with the pony while his man came with the loading shovel to take it away (as odd members of the public came near bye) he was already digging a hole for it, an hour later he finally arrived asking where he had been he said that the digger had slipped into the hole that he was digging.

  glad i did not have to dig a hole for that but i have done one for a casket containing a pony's ashes
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  Fenlandphil December 20, 2011 at 6:46am

  It's a good job no one has customers with elephants as pets.