What takes the head of chicken and leaves the chicken?

It could be the local vagrant, who dines on chicken head soup. Chicken lips and all. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
A couple of years ago I had a mink dining on my ducks. It would chew on the neck and skin it while the bird was alive and then drink the blood. The birds were rarely killed out right but they didn't live long. The mink ended up in my freezer /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif My son had a pet rabbit get loose and we found it one morning headless. We had lots of owls around here. Also so many hawks and falcons I don't know all their names. The other afternoon a falcon was trying to catch a pilated wood pecker in my back yard. The woodpecker showed lots of fast moves to escape the falcon.
Lots of predaters around /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
hundejager, I would quess a coyote got the cat. If free ranging dogs killed the cat they probably wouldn't eat any of it. Coyotes consider cats a delicacy. The scene of the crime should provide the evidence. There may be tracks, if not other clues can point in the direction of coyote or dog. Most dogs are not efficient killers, and kill for fun. When killing something dogs generally make a mess of things blood, guts,and hair strewn all around and very little if any part of the animals they kill get eaten. Coyotes on the other hand kill for a living and are very good at it. Coyotes rarely leave a mess at a kill, eating what they kill and even licking up the blood. Coyotes can cut up a killed animal into carrying sized pieces as good as you or I could with a knife. As far as leaving the legs that doesn't suprise me, animals seem to like to eat the internal organs first. I would guess that a coyote either got spooked and dropped the hindquarters or you found them before it had time to come back for them.
 
I've heard a LOT of stories and I'm sure many of them are true about what kills chickens and just takes certain body parts. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

I was working on a nature preserve recently and they had "sentinal chickens" in cages to be tested for West Nile disease. Long story.. Don't ask...

The chickens were being killed at an alarming rate and the administrators couldn't for the life of them figure out what the heck was doing it.

The chickens were totally encased in hardwire cloth (small mesh wire) and nothing bigger than a dang tiny mouse could have gotten in.

One evening I decided to hide out in the equipment shed and watch to actually find out what was happening.

Just about dark a couple of coons came by and went under the cages. They reached through the wire with their little hands and grabbed a chicken by the foot.

Then they literally ate the chicken a small piece at a time by tearing them apart a handful at a time by grabbing small handfuls and ripping off a little bite every few seconds.

It was a gruesome way to die for the helpless chickens but the coons didn't seem to mind at all. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I administered the the "anti-coon medicine" and the problem stopped. I never told the nature preserve people. They would likely have had a fit but they sure were happy that the sentinel chickens quit dying.

Coons are incredibly resourseful and I LOVE to hunt them... NOBODY uses the coon pup in distress sounds (correct name???) around here and the coons are huge suckers for it... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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