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Booty Hop giving zero F’s about being in the dog’s bed. HahahaNot long after moving to my retirement palace I befriended this cat, an old crippled female who is a survivor for sure.
I started feeding her a bit and she and my dog became friends and all was good.
One morning, just as I went out on my porch, I heard a muffled "meow" and quickly saw Booty Hop (the cat) with a just killed baby rabbit.
She brought it to me, dropped it on the ground and then laid herself down beside it, obviously pleased as could be.
I took this quick pic for posterity.
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Later on I'd allow her inside and she wasted no time in taking over the dog's bed, much to the chagrin of the dog, seen here asking me just WTF is going on. LOL
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Hawks love ground squirrels. That would be my guess of the culprit. It may have come back for it even? I had a Coopers hawk with a pigeon kill in my back yard. I put the remains in the bin and right at dusk the hawk was back and it hung out for a good long time trying to locate the kill it had left behind.Something killed and partially ate one of the marauding squirrels....lower 1/3 of it was missing when I found it this weekend past near the dwarf apple tree. Some marks about the head/neck, but don't know if that killed it. Am sure the missing hindquarters didn't help.
I don't think Bix the Cat got it, or any of the rival neighborhood cats. Have seen a hawk go after one, so, maybe that is what killed/ate it.
Anyway, I placed it among the blueberries on Saturday, thinking it would just rot into the compost, and then today as I raked some leaves and put them in the compost pot, checked out the decomposition process of said squirrel and it is gone.
Opossum would be my guess. Maybe a racoon would scavenge a few days old squirrel?
What eventually happens to the carcass? Couild you hold your breath and carve out some vertebrae? A friend on mine found some on a beach in Baja and they are very cool looking.Really dead, really stinky whale on the beach yesterday...and the ocean behind me sooo flat, barely lapping at the shore.
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Some friends of mine tried burying a smaller one hoping they could dig it up later for the vertebrae, skull, whatever. Don't know what eventually happened to that plan. I've heard of people using very sharp shovels to carve on carcasses from a distance...probably would want to have better than a Covid mask on for that sh*t though. If we ever get a giant swell again that might move this one around too.What eventually happens to the carcass? Couild you hold your breath and carve out some vertebrae? A friend on mine found some on a beach in Baja and they are very cool looking.
Some friends of mine tried burying a smaller one hoping they could dig it up later for the vertebrae, skull, whatever. Don't know what eventually happened to that plan. I've heard of people using very sharp shovels to carve on carcasses from a distance...probably would want to have better than a Covid mask on for that sh*t though. If we ever get a giant swell again that might move this one around too.