Villagers Stealing Food?

[caius]

Have any of you had villagers steal your meat/fish?

When active hunting across the map (or checking on nets), I will often butcher the carcass and take the meat cuts to a nearby village and smoke or dry the meat (or fish) in their village.  Most of the time, I come back when it is done and pick up the stacks of dried or smoked meat, no problem.  But some villages seem to take my meat -- I return to find my smoked meat/fish gone but the cords are still there in a pile.  They don't even bother to hide the evidence.  The meat isn't anywhere in the village. 

What prompts some villages to smoke or dry my meat and others to steal it?

[JP_Finn]

Food left on village property will be picked up and eaten over time.
I often gift birchbark shoes for shoeless and about 1/8-1/2 of the meat to the villagers when picking up as the payment for their labor. (Any poor quality weapons, trapping or fishing gear I gift to the kids in the villages I visit)

Use a map to mark you smoking meats with estimated completion date, be there 1 day prior or at least 2-3 after.