I went outside to get the mail the other day and noticed a large pile of barkdust that
something???? had piled up in one of my planting beds. So I go got a shovel and I'm thinking sh*t, I'm going to find a vary large pile of bark with a stinky load of cat poop buried underneath, because it sure looks like very large, overzealous cat left me his business. But as I lifted the bark, lo and behold, there's the body a full sized brown rabbit, minus it's head and front legs. The red backbone with meat around it was still sticking out of the body like it's head had literally been ripped off. Nasty!
What predator likes to bury it's prey like that? I'm thinking maybe it's a Bobcat, since we've had sightings of them for the past decade and the scrape marks in the soil weren't big enough to indicate Cougar. I doubt it was a dog, or do dogs even bury their prey like that? Whatever it was, it must have come back looking for it's stash last night, because there was a new little hole dug in the same spot today. I'll bet it's a little pissed off his dinner disappeared since I disposed of the carcass yesterday.
